Statement: It’s a search for new paths that have to do with immersion, abandonment and the creation of new roots. Roots that are dynamic, evolving and capable of supporting the other. Respecting the idea of rootedness and projecting it into a kaleidoscopic, faceted world.
INNER SPACES : Out on 21 March 2025
INNER SPACES
Trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer Amir ElSaffar joins electronics performer and composer Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch in a new project exploring electro-acoustic spaces, maqam, microtonal harmonies, and improvised and composed structures in a modular musical composition that accommodates a variety of musical styles across genres. Together, they create an immersive sound that transcends notions of form, musical language, electronic, and acoustic categories in music. This new work will be a modular composition combining pre-determined structural elements with freely improvised sections, played live by ElSaffar and Bianchi-Hoesch. The work will explore electro-acoustic spaces in a microtonal environment that embraces the sonic spectra of multiple musical languages.
Bianchi-Hoesch and ElSaffar are interested in creating a transcultural collaboration combining jazz, contemporary classical music, maqam, raga, and other musical backgrounds, inclusive of all the richness, complexity, and idiomatic expression, without compromising or oversimplifying in order to be compatible with others. They are in search of boundary-less spaces in music.
Selected concerts :
PS21 Chatham New York USA
Pioneer Works Brooklyn NYC
Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin Germany
Festival Aperto Reggio Emilia Italy BricJazzFest New York USA
Festival Fog Triennale di Milano Italy….
Show Production:
Ornithology productions, Maqam Studio,
FACE foundation 2022, Pioneer Works,
PS21 Chatham.
Album Production: Ornithology Production and Maqam records.
RADICANTS : Out on 20 September 2024
RADICANTS
A unique musical project whose core reveals a certain “poetics of relationship”.
The encounter between western electronic soundscapes and an instrument as ancient as the kora (lute harp native to West Africa) gives rise to a musical experience of exploration and immersion.
The acclaimed composer and sound artist Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch meets the virtuosity of Ballaké Sissoko, one of the most prominent artists on the ethnic and jazz scene. The concert fosters an exchange between electronic and acoustic sounds, between contemporary and traditional approaches, between Europe and Africa.
In this encounter the focus is not on opposition, but on evolution and relationship, in which musicians and audience find themselves sharing the same acoustic space, immersed in the same soundscape.
A unique musical project whose core reveals a certain “poetics of relationship”.
Selected concerts :
Bozar Bruxelles Belgium
Festival RomaEuropa Roma Italy
Musée du Quai Branly Paris France
Friche Belle de Mai Marseille France
Teatro Grande Brescia Italy
Festival Aperto Reggio Emilia Italy
Festival Fog Triennale di Milano Italy
Zone Libre Bastia France
Royaumont Abbey France
Théâtre de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines — Scène Nationale France
Points communs – Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy
Maison de la Culture de Grenoble
Détours de Babel, Grenoble, France….
Show Production: Fondation Royaumont.
Coproduction: Ornithology, CIMN – Détours de Babel, GMEM – CNCM – Marseille, Fondation Camargo.
Soutien de la Sacem et du Groupe ADP et de la Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso.
Album Production: Ornithology Production
NOTES ON THE MEMORY OF NOTES
NOTES ON THE MEMORY OF NOTES
Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Electronics
Fabrizio Cassol: Sax
Adèle Viret: Cello
At the heart of this musical proposal is the search for microtonal harmonic freedom and real-time electronics, where the subtlest nuances and hidden colors of the notes emerge in the dialog between the instruments and the sound treatment.
A unique and fascinating sonic journey, where writing and improvisation meet to explore new territories. Fabrizio Cassol on saxophone, Adele Viret on cello and Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch on electronics combine …
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Album out on September 2025
2025 May 8, CREATION Festival Propagation – GMEM – Fondation Camargo, Cassis
2025 September 26, Festival Aperto, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2025 September 28, Fabbrica Europa, Florence, Italy 2025
November 15, RomaEuropa, Roma, Italy
Show Production:
GMEM – Centre national de création musicale.
Coproduction: Ornithology productions with the support of La Fondation Camargo.Album Production: Ornithology Production 2025
IMMERSIVE MAQAM
Immersive Maqam
New project
2025/ 2026
More Info HERE
Immersive Maqam
Is the new project in collaboration with Villa Albertine. A research that will bring Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch to meet and play with experienced Maqam musicians, improvisers, and performers in New York City, and build a common discourse with electronics.
Supported by Villa Albertine.
In collaboration with Maqam Studio, Brooklyn
PAST PROJECTS :
ANOTHER OPTION : Out on 30 May 2024
ANOTHER OPTION
By nature hostile to any kind of purism, putting elements that come from very distant cultures on the same level, I believe that writing music has more to do with connecting elements scattered in the contemporary world than dealing with a blank sheet or a virgin session of a sequencer.
Composed mixed by Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
Mastered BY Pierre Huzy
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CITIES Out on 31 May 2022
THREE STAGES Out on September 2017
THREE STAGES
Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: composition and mixing.
Frederic Stochl: Double bass
Zoë Martlew: Cello
Wolfgang Zamastil: Cello
Corey Scott-Gilbert : Voice
Gus Solomons Jr: Voice
Three Stages is a huge work of electronic music dedicated to the Dante trilogy “La Divina Commedia”. The music was first composed for the homonym contemporary dance show that premiered in August 2017 at PACT Zollverein. Choreographer Richard Siegal.
Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch Is a composer and a performer. He composed music for live performances, albums, installations, theater, images, dance performances.
His interests span from instrumental composition with real time electronic , to audio and video installations to soundtracks and compositions for theater and dance,
stemming from a formally strict process of experimentation by using electronic implemented improvisation. All this is created as a means of creation of new electro – acoustic sounds.
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99 Out on 6 March 2017 – with Marc Nammour.
99
By Marc Nammour & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
Marc Nammour: Poetry, Rap, Artistic Direction.
Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch: Composition, arrangements, real-time sound processing.
Amir Elsaffar: trumpet, santur, vocals.
Rishab Prasanna: Nay Bansuri, vocals.
Jérôme Boivin: Bass, double bass, Moog.
Produced by: 99, Fondation Royaumont, Festival Avignon, Bozar, Moussem, Haizebegi.
Recorded and mastered at Music Unit, Montreuil, France.
Produced and mixed by Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch at Ornithology Studio, France.
Label: Ornithology-productions
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