IN PETTO

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Christophe Fellay is a sound artist living and working in Switzerland

Christophe Fellay (*1966) is a sound artist, musician, composer, performer and improviser living in Switzerland. He has shown interdisciplinary works, sound installations, live performances worldwide and composed sonic works and music for ensembles, solo instruments, radiophonic arts, theatre, movies, video, choreography and performative arts. His work has been shown internationally in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Montreux, Copenhagen, Zürich, Geneva, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Buenos Aires, Santa Fé, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Windhoek. His artistic interests include indisciplinarity, active listening, acoustics, sound architecture and ecology. He is particularly interested in the interaction between gesture, movement and sound. Christophe has achieved a PhD at the Brunel University in London and is professor, researcher and head of sound department at EDHEA (Ecole de Design et Haute Ecole d’Art) Valais – Wallis, Switzerland.

IN PETTO (2015) is dedicated to friend and bassist Popol Lavanchy. Launched during the London Jazz Festival, nine original compositions are engraved on a limited edition of a vinyl record in conversation with the series of photographs URBAN SCENES by Chris Morgan.

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MUSICIANS

Max Baillie violin/viola – Joel Bell electric guitar – Rowland Sutherland flutes – Christian Forshaw saxes – Torbjorn Hultmark trumpet/live electronics – Graham Lee trombone – Martin Butler piano – Ben Markland bass/electric bass – Simon Limbrick drums/percussion – Christophe Fellay drums/composer – Peter Wiegold keyboard/conductor

Recorded by Chris Lewis at Fab Studio in Switzerland – Mixed by Christophe Fellay in London and Switzerland – Mastered in Berlin by Jan Pinnig, 21 Mastering

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