KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture (Hamze Hume bb, Bihac)
Concert: Friday, April 12, 2024 at 9 pm

Isabella Forciniti is a fairly new phenomenon on the Austrian contemporary music scene. She operates in a wide range of sound possibilities, including methodological settings of research work, composition and performance. Her inventiveness and passion for searching result in an explicit sound content of a melodic order of a completely new and different sensory sensibility. Forciniti uses a wide array of digital sounds to create a melody made from chopped rhythms and on-the-spot improvisation. In her case, the term “melody” does not have anticipated connotations but rather creates and defines new expectations by opening new fields of interpretation. Her performances thus become places where the sensory perceptivity of the spatial-sound order of the contemporary individual and the society is questioned.

Isabella Forciniti perfectly handles the tools she uses for her artistic expression. The sound pieces she creates, although far from anything already known, suggest artistic meticulousness and technical skills. Her practice is based on tools that are the result of technological development. She is interested in the social potential of digital networking through mobile devices with an emphasis on music and sound. The connection of computer algorithms between disciplines such as ecology and other sciences, and the search for possible sound results that can arise from this, are the backbone of her research work.

Formally, the artist is well-known in the field of computer music and electronic media. She graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 2019, and received her master's degree in music and composition from the Anton Bruckner University in Linz. She is currently preparing for her doctoral research which is focused on tactile, interactive and industrial sound design. Forciniti performed at prominent music festivals such as Ars Electronica and Wien Modern in Austria, Unsound in Poland or Skaņu Mežs in Latvia.

Isabella Forciniti's performance at KRAK has been financially supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum in Sarajevo and the Robert Bosch Foundation.