Photo: Sebastiano Piattini
Kety Fusco left the classical canon of Debussy, Ravel and Bach to make her own music on the electric harp. She plays it with forks, knives, tapes and vinyl records to find new sounds. Iggy Pop featured her music on his BBC show Iggy Confidential.
With jazzhane
- 04.07.2024 jazzhane Festival 2024, Rote Fabrik Zurich
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How do you channel hyperactive and seemingly never-ending childish energy to create cutting-edge music?
Meet Kety Fusco, a master of the electric harp. Bored of playing Debussy, Ravel, or Bach in the classical canon and feeling her creative vision and skills were limited by classical orchestras, Kety broke off and decided to create her own rules, her very own music.
Unlearning everything she was taught, it was the classic harp that became her first victim: Kety maltreats and hammers the harp with anything she can get hold of: forks, knives, tapes, and vinyl records to elicit new and unusual tunes.
Kety was confirmed to be on the right path when Iggy Pop curated her music in his regular BBC podcast Iggy Confidential.
Her sets are as experimental as they are energetic, usually an unknown journey both for the audience and the master at work.