Vanessa Rossetto

Vanessa Rossetto is an American composer, violist and visual artist. Trained as a painter, she turned to sound to bring time into her work, and she makes long-form pieces of musique concrète from chamber instruments, field recordings, electronics, found objects and the everyday sounds around her. She was based in Austin, Texas, in the mid-2010s. Rossetto runs her own label, Music Appreciation, and has also released music on Kye, Another Timbre, Tone Glow, No Rent and Regional Bears. Erstwhile Records issued the double CDs The Actress (2022) and Pictures of the Warm South (2025).