Laura Agnusdei

Laura Agnusdei is a saxophonist and electronic musician from Bologna, Italy. Her solo project explores the possibilities of electroacoustic composition, creating soundscapes within which the saxophone remains the main narrative voice. Suspended between the use of melody and timbral research, remnants of the song form and improvisational glimpses, his music amalgamates different sound sources. After his debut with Night/Lights, released in 2017 by the British label The Tapeworm, under the same label was released in November 2019 her first album Laurisilva, a work that invites the listener to explore an imaginary landscape formed by sounds that proliferate and stratify like the living organisms in a forest. In 2021 he produced the site-specific project UBI CONSISTAM, focused on the sound exploration of Bologna and condensed into a book edited by Via Industrie where Giulia Polenta's graphic narrative accompanies six audio tracks dedicated to as many places city. Longstanding, on the other hand, is the project with sound designer Daniele Fabris, with whom he has composed Riflessi published by Russian Stellage, an early work that illustrates their research devoted to live digital sax processing. In 2023 he published for Italian-Canadian Maple Death Records Goro a work inspired by the graphic novel Almost Nobody Laughed Out Loud by Pastoraccia, an EP that moves moves between proto-techno ballads, noir atmospheres and field recordings. Agnusdei has also militated for five years within the psych-rock band Julie's Haircut, while in 2023 began his collaboration with choreographer and dancer Annamaria Ajmone, with the debut of BLEAH!!!, a performance freely inspired by the work of visual poet Lucia Marcucci. Part of the activity live of Agnusdei also focuses on the work of live sounding of film materials, in dialogue with realities such as, among others, Home Movies - National Archive, Cinema Ritrovato and the National Cinema Museum of Turin. January 2025 will see the release of his new album for Maple Death Records, a work presented live in trio with percussionist Edoardo Grisogani (Tetuan, Above the tree) and the trumpeter Jacopo Buda.

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