Cucina Povera is the solo project of Karelian-Luxembourgish medic and composer Maria Rossi, focusing on the marginal and the observational. The repeated motifs in their work are an uncanny testament to the beauty of banality, infused with the mysticism of everyday life and a love for accessible sound sources like creaky tenement floors, boiling kettles and leaky taps – stories told by means of rudimentary synthesis of voice and field recording.
Like in the titular practice of peasant cooking, Rossi takes simple ingredients and makes a stylistically resourceful, spontaneous hermeticism that primarily makes for a creative respite from the hubbub of the metropole. For this project Cucina Povera is looking to create gauzy layers of vocals, highlighting the dynamic of gleaning whilst exploring the notions of composite sound and sonic artefacts. The idea is to explore parallels between architectural space and sonics through organised and aesthetic sound.
