French, Paris-based, reculsive, electroacoustic composer Gilles Sivilotto grew up in a fishing family on the Mediterranean coast, and always considered fishing a handicraft. His series of compositions – Handmade – asks if electronic music can be a handicraft too? Since 2005, Sivilotto has drawn frequency graphs – every sound wave and noise – literally by hand (and an electronic pencil and sound-editing software), and invoked this new series of compositions, with remarkable precision and differentiation, and a rare ability to anticipate how wave forms would sound. This series of compositions is associated with Sivilotto’s father, an artisan
