Lea Bertucci is an American composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental practice (alto saxophone and bass clarinet), her work incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays, electroacoustic feedback, extended instrumental technique and tape collage. Deeply experimental, her work is unafraid to subvert musical expectation. She performed her album ‘Metal Aether’, showcasing her role as a performer. ‘Metal Aether’ develops a language of extended technique for alto saxophone that is based on a spectral, psychoacoustic, and non-linguistic approach to the instrument.

Musical Material, a collaboration between festival Rewire and West Den Haag, where specialists in the fields of music, art perform and reflect in an intimate setting. For this edition, we presented an extraordinary guest: avant-garde composer and musician Lea Bertucci. The concert was performed at Korzo Den Haag on 05.10.2018, and filmed and edited by West.