biography

Photo: © Ursula Sprecher

Luigi Archett

• born 5 February 1955 in Brescia, Italy. Resident of Switzerland since 1965.

Since 1978

• Composer, music performer, sound experimenter, guitarist
• Sound-installations,cross-over-projects.
• Founder of various music projects in the avant-garde and experimental music fields (electronica, improvisation, noise and computer music).
• Live movie soundtracks, live video performances.
• Has performed with various projects and also solo in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Poland, Liechtenstein, Canada, USA, Japan and Russia

1995

• solo concert as part of the "Ton-Art" series in the Bern Art Museum. These concerts were broadcast live on Swiss radio, DRS2.

1998

• performed together with the guitarists Uchihashi Kazuhisa (J) and Bill Horist (USA) at the "Taktlos Festival" in Zurich and Basel.

1999

• at the festival "Grenzueberschreitungen" at the Bayreuth Opera House with musicians from China, Beluchistan and Iran.

2000

• performed with the duo "Low Tide Digitals" at the "Music Performance Festival" at the Instituto Svizzero di Roma.

2001

• Compositions commissioned by the Swiss Pro Helvetia Foundation (Solo-CD-project:"Transient Places").
• Performed with the quartet "Alienstalk", including Ellen Christi, vocals; Jan Schlegel, bass; and Claudio Lodati, guitar, at the international festival "Dalle nuove musiche al suono mondiale", organized by "musica 90" in Turin (Café Procope).

2001 / 02

• Performed the project SUB (music performance) at the "Jazzherbst Konstanz" and "13 Jazzfestival Schaffhausen" together with Hubl Greiner, Bo Wiget.

2003

• Music-compositions and video-works in the dance project A VONTADE DAS COISAS with the dancer Marisa Godoy (Brasil). Performances at: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich.
• Solo-music-performance DANCEFLOOR (music & video-project) at the Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunsthalle Winterthur and during the exhibition OSCILACIONES in Barcelona.

2004

• Scandinavian-tour with LOW TIDE DIGITALS.
• CD-release TRANSIENT PLACES on the label Unit Records Switzerland UTR 4154.
• Concert with video-projection at the LEM-Festival (8th International Experimental Music Festival) in Barcelona.
• Concert with the project CONSTRUCTION SONOR at the festival UOVO in Milano

2005

• Japan-Tour with the Duo TIERE DER NACHT
• CD-release: TIERE DER NACHT / Kräuter & Weltmeister / Label: Captain Trip Records, Tokyo / CTCD 511
• CD-release: LOW TIDE DIGITALS II / Label: Rune Grammofone, Oslo / RCD 2046
• With the Duo LOW TIDE DIGITALS at the ANGELICA-Festival in Bologna (I)
• With the Duo TIERE DER NACHT at KLING KLANG-Festival in Lille (F)
• With the Duo LOW TIDE DIGITALS at AUDIO ART FESTIVAL in Krakau (PL)
• CD-release FEBRUAR / Luigi Archetti Solo / Label: STV/ASM 026 / Distribution: Unit Records, Switzerland
• Concerts with the duo TIERE DER NACHT & DIETER MOEBIUS at the Art Institute of Detroit USA

2006

• With the Duo LOW TIDE DIGITALS little Tour (Paris Instants Chavirés / Brussels / Antwerpen)
• With the Duo LOW TIDE DIGITALS & Andrea Chudak (Sopran) and Bernhard Zachhuber (clarinet - Klangforum Wien) Live-music in the project AUF DEN TISCH! by MEG STUART / DAMAGED GOODS at Vienna (Tanzquartier) and Salzburg (Mozarteum).
• Scandinavia-tour with LOW TIDE DIGITALS (october 2006).

2007

• November 2007: tour with the duo ARCHETTI/WIGET (Bremen, Berlin, London- THE WIRE 25 Festival-, Utrecht)
• The movie I HAVE YOU SEEN BETTER DANCING THAN THIS of Archetti/Wiget is the winner of the 9th MuVi-Awards of the 53. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2007
• Solo-concert at the festival MUTAMENTI in Bellinzona with: Fennesz, Young Gods and Bernd Schurer.

2008

• CD-release FRAGMENTS ON SLOWLESS, SPEED AND TEDIUM at the label domizil.ch
• The movie BESTES DEUTSCHES MUSIKVIDEO by Archetti/Wiget is the winner of the 10th MuVi-Awards of the 54. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2008.
• CD-release NIEDERLÄNDISCHE SPRICHWÖRTER by Luigi Archetti & Michael Heisch at the label Creative Works, Switzerland.

Numerous concerts in ad hoc formations and together with musicians like:

• Iva Bittova, Makigami Koichi, Dieter Moebius (Ex: Cluster) , Roland Schaeffer, Bill Horist, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Michael Karoli & Damo Suzuki (Ex Can), Taku Sugimoto, Werner Lüdi, Mani Neumeier, Jacques Widmer, Wädi Gysi, Mich Gerber, Christoph Gallio, Peter Landis, Hans Reffert, Shirley Hofmann, Christoph Baumann, Franziska Baumann, Charlotte Hug, Michael Seigner, Jan Schlegel, Urs Voerkel, Ellen Christi, Hubl Greiner, Urs Blöchlinger, Martin Gantenbein, Bo Wiget, Marino Plakias, Michael Heisch, Markus Eichenberger, Peter K. Frei, Xu Fengxia, Uwe Oberg, Ernst Thoma, Tomas Korber, Jochen Irmler (Faust) etc.