Review Fix Exclusive: Kety Fusco Talks Inspirations, 2021 Goals And More

Review Fix chats with Kety Fusco, who discusses her signature sound and why the harp matters.

One year after the release of her debut album DAZED, the young Italian-Swiss harpist and composer Kety Fusco gives us a very personal version of the famous song “Gnossienne N.1” by Erik Satie. In this modern reinterpretation, which Kety has entitled “Ma Gnossienne”, the harp is used in an unconventional way to generate sounds that have nothing to do with its classical timbre. The entire sound system is set up with sounds of vinyl scratched on metal strings, objects struck on the soundboard of the pre-sampled classical harp, and analogue effects manipulated live. 

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Kety Fusco: I got into music when I was 6 years old. I was a very hyperactive child and couldn’t calm

down. At school, even the teachers couldn’t get me to sit still in my chair and listen to the

lessons. So my family had decided to make me do a sport to try to vent them my

hyperactivity, but instead had worsened. One day we were on vacation in the mountains

and I saw a woman playing the harp: there I had a stroke of lightning, I took the harp, the

music and I never left them again … and I also calmed down a bit!

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Fusco: My creative process always starts with days when I have so many things to do. My mind

starts sending me signals and it’s time for me to grab the computer and write down what’s

playing in my head. Then, with my harp and my live electronics I bring the composition to

life.

Review Fix: What inspires you?

Fusco: I’m inspired by everything I can’t see or hear, I’m inspired to search for a sound in an

apparently insignificant object, for example, or to take the most unthinkable part of my

harp that can produce an interesting sound and then produce it, search for it, play it and

make it mine.

Review Fix: What does music mean to you?

Fusco: Music is about communication, I don’t like people and I struggle to communicate anything,

I often come across as apathetic and arrogant. With music, however, I can express myself

and channel my emotions that are difficult to manage in everyday life. I can live in the

days without feeling fatigue.

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?

Fusco: I can tell you that my sound can’ scratch your sensibility, wrap you up like a warm blanket

in winter, make you fly through the sky, crush your chest and not let you breathe, it makes

you dance and move your ass even if you are not coordinated.

Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?

Fusco: My live shows are an experience. From the moment I mount the stage I start a

conversation and every show changes. It depends on the place, on the people, on how I

woke up in the morning and depending on this I bring in my world. In the studio I am very

technical and precise and I demand a lot from myself, I don’t let myself go.

Review Fix: What inspired your latest single?

Fusco: My latest single was born after a beautiful piece of news I received, and I was so nervous, I

couldn’t calm down, so I went to my studio and put a song on youtube, La Gnossienne by

Erik Satie. I started playing on it with my harp, occasionally adding sounds sampled from

my harp library. And Ma Gnossienne was born. I’ve always wanted to be daring and go

outside the box, even trying to work with a classical piece, but maybe I never had the

courage.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2021?

Fusco: This 2021 I’ll be mostly touring and I want to focus on my concerts and in the meantime I’m

preparing the release of my harp sound library, the world’s first library of non-traditional

sounds.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Fusco: After that there will be a collaboration with the pianist Lubomyr Melnyk, we are writing a

record together and I am really excited!

Fusco: Anything else you’d like to add?

Review Fix: If you would like to listen to my music, follow me on youtube and Spotify!

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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