Nicolò Bottasso (b. 1994 in Italy, based in the Netherlands) is a violinist, trumpeter, composer and sound artist working across experimental, contemporary and folk-derived music.
His practice centres on improvisation, timbre and repetition, integrating acoustic instruments and live processing into an organic sonic practice in dialogue with moving image, archival material and site-specific performance. He is interested in how inherited musical languages shift when they encounter new contexts and modes of perception.
His long-standing collaboration with his brother Simone as Duo Bottasso has been a continuous laboratory for this practice for nearly two decades.
Since 2024, he has performed on a tenore d’amore, a custom sympathetic-string instrument developed with luthier Cesar Sakellarides, combining features of the baryton violin, viola d’amore and Hardanger fiddle.
Selected presentations of his projects include Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), LAC (Lugano), Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum DFF (Frankfurt), Nonagon Festival (Svanö) and MACRO (Rome).
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