Second track from "Circo Pobre" (2022), composed and performed by Passepartout Duo
Filmed in Long Island, US at The Watermill Center in March 2022
Recorded in Pardubice, CZ at Offcity AiR in December 2021
Composed in Tunis, TN at Dar Meso Residency in November 2021
We are happy to announce our new artists in residence: Nicoletta Favari and Christopher Salvito from the Passepartout Duo (IT/US)
Don’t miss their performance at Community Centre Krov on the 8th December 2023 at 8 p.m.
Drawing from a carefully selected palette of electro-acoustic textures and shapeshifting rhythms, Passepartout Duo’s work investigates the way in which we listen to and connect with sound. Reassessing the tools they use to create their music, the group is continually developing a specialized and evolving ecosystem of handmade musical instruments that have ranged from analog electronic circuits and conventional percussion, to room-size textile installations and found objects. Looking for ways of sustaining an independent musical career and shaping an international network of artists and musicians, the group has been on a nearly continuous world tour ever since they began collaborating in 2015, and their experiences traveling have heavily influenced their unconventional creative process. This from-scratch approach has materialized itself in a series of discographic releases: their most recent Circo Pobre (2022) and Daylighting (2021) are both LPs exploring different ways of approaching sound synthesis and electronic musical interfaces, respectively realized through electromagnetism and textile fibers.
Passepartout Duo is performing for the first time in Belgrade, sharing their live set Circo Pobre.
The centerpiece of this live set is the Chromaplane, an electronic instrument the two musicians have designed and built themselves. With a pickup coil in each hand, the performers trace shapes above the instrument’s flat surface to unveil its hidden landscape of oscillators buzzing in the electromagnetic field.
