[Cover photo credit to Emilie Elizabeth]
Italian musician, instrument-builder, Producer and composer Alessandro Cortini, has shared the first piece of music from his forthcoming release, Nati Infiniti, out October 4, 2024 on Mute. The 40-minute album is separated into five movements, and is based on an immersive audio installation that ran across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Fábrica da Moagem, a disused flour mill. This interpretation of the work will be available on October 4, 2024 on vinyl, with an embossed silver mirror board sleeve, CD, with a clear varnished gatefold mirror board sleeve, and digitally.
The video for the penultimate piece “IV”, which was directed by visual collaborator Marco Ciceri, has also been released.
Nati Infiniti reimagines the installation, commissioned by Sónar Lisboa 2022, capturing the ambience of the original piece, where each of the four floors of the mill evoked “a different state” through Cortini’s sound design.
The work, which utilizes the Strega instrument that Cortini co-designed with Make Noise, evolves across 40 minutes, and was mixed and mastered by Marta Salogni (Björk, Depeche Mode, Lucrecia Dalt) into five movements.
Cortini debuted the live audio-visual performance of Nati Infiniti at Berlin’s Atonal Festival, and Cortini will embark on a tour of North America and Europe throughout ’24 and into ‘25, with more dates to be added.
Alessandro Cortini is a contemporary Electronic artist who is a longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails. He has released his own music on labels including Mute, Hospital, and Important Records for the past decade.
Additionally, he has soundtracked catwalk shows for fashion houses Alexander McQueen, Dior, and Fendi, composed for Disney/Hulu’s hit show The Bear, and remixed tracks for Depeche Mode, Mogwai, Death Cab For Cutie, Yann Tiersen, and Vatican Shadow.
Alessandro Cortini Live:
9/5/2024 – Reykjavik, Extreme Chill IS
9/19/2024 – Glasgow, Sonica Festival UK
10/3/2024 – Albany, NY, Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center, “The Egg” US^
10/4/2024 – Queens, NY, Knockdown Center US^
10/6/2024 – Boston, MA, Sonia US^
10/7/2024 – Minneapolis, MN, The Cedar Cultural Center US^
10/9/2024 – Chicago, IL, Empty Bottle US^
10/10/2024 – Austin, TX, Central Presbyterian Church US^
10/11/2024 – Seattle, WA, Age Of Reflections at Seattle First Baptist US^
10/12/2024 – Portland, OR, Age Of Reflections at Trinity Cathedral US^
10/13/2024 – Los Angeles, CA, Teragram Ballroom US^
11/20/2024 – Brussels, Bozar BE^
12/6/2024 – Berlin, Silent Green DE^
1/17/2025 – Paris, Trabendo FR^
^ – new dates
