Frances-Marie Uitti, composer/ performer, pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time ever into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multivoiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous legato/articulated playing, that her previous work with a curved bow couldn't attain.

Collaborating significantly over years with radicals, Dick Raaijmakers, John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi, she has also worked closely with Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough and countless composers from the new generation.  Uitti tours extensively throughout the world having played for audiences from New York City to Mongolia and appears regularly in festivals worldwide.   Frances-Marie Uitti collaborates with pianist Rolf Hind, classical pianist Alwin Bar, filmmakers Frank Scheffer and Frans Zwaartjes, avantgarde guitarist Elliott Sharp, accordionist Pauline Oliveros, DJ Scanner, DJ Low, and Stephen Vitiello and video madster Ferenc van Damme.

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New York bassist Mark Dresser is on the cutting edge of extended instrumental technique, while cellist Frances-Marie Uitti's 2-bow technique has revolutionized the art of cello playing. Sonomondo is an album of exquisite cello+bass duo improvisations. At times Dresser and Uitti sound like a string quartet, and at others like a small orchestra.

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