Kety Fusco - Ma Gnossienne

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"When I began my research into the contemporary sound of the harp, the first thing I did was to do the first think I wouldn't do. From a harp, I took its composition and therefore: the gut of the strings, the metal of the mechanism and the wood of the structure. I sampled the sounds, searching for the essence of the raw material. The sounds obtained are mostly noises, which you are not used to hearing from a harp, yet it is always the harp that produced them. From the detail of a harp comes the vision of a new harp, capable of entering a new modern musical environment, which radically detaches it from its historical origins."

One year after the release of her debut album DAZED, the young Italian-Swiss harpist and composer Kety Fusco gives us a very personal version of the famous song "Gnossienne N.1" by Erik Satie. In this modern reinterpretation, which Kety has entitled "Ma Gnossienne", the harp is used in an unconventional way to generate sounds that have nothing to do with its classical timbre. The entire sound system is set up with the sound of a vinyl scratched on metal strings, some objects struck on the soundboard of the pre-sampled classical harp, and analogue effects manipulated live.

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Credits song
Composed by Erik Satie, Kety Fusco
Produced by Kety Fusco
In collaboration with Aris Bassetti
Precious collaboration with the cello of Zeno Gabaglio
All sounds are from the live harp and harp sound library by Kety Fusco
Mixed by Enea Ponzio
Mastered by Eleven Mastering

Credits video
Filmed and Edited by Sebastiano Piattini
Special thanks to Elena Rotondi, Aris Bassetti and Giacomo Brenna for helping

℗© Kety Fusco 2021