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SUMMARY:MA/IN25 - KORA①
DESCRIPTION:© Circa Tono [The Entropic Arias]\n \n🎟 biglietti disponibili solo in loco\n▷ opening / installazione\nh 20.30\n⦿ Francesco Enea Gueli [IT] /// Rimuginio\nsound installation \n▷ concerto\nh 21.00\n⦿ Amma Ateria [HK/US] /// The Entropic Arias  \nlive A/V performance \n⦿ Simone Faraci [IT] /// Xiamma\nlive performance \n\n/// Rimuginio [sound art]  (Rumination) is a sound installation that stages obsessive and circular thought through a simple\, mechanical\, and relentless gesture: a marker drawing circles on a sheet of paper. Driven by a hidden motor\, the vibrations generated are amplified through a resonant surface\, creating a raw yet vibrant sonic landscape. The work is inspired by the psychological concept of rumination: the continuous recurrence of a thought that fails to reach resolution. In this drawing machine\, imprecise yet persistent\, one can see a reflection of the human mind\, trapped within its own internal circuits. The audience is invited to participate actively: the installation detects the distance of spectators\, altering the speed of the drawing and transforming the sonic environment. Human interaction\, interpreted as a potential helping hand\, provokes deviations in the marker’s behavior. On the contrary\, a distant observer allows the device to continue its obsessive and imprecise motion undisturbed.\nFrancesco Enea Gueli /// Born in Florence in 2003\, his musical journey began at the age of five when he started studying the violin\, obtaining his Suzuki diploma and then completing his pre-academic conservatory studies. He attended the degree course in “Applied Music” at the Fiesole School of Music where he studied with Alberto Gatti and Girolamo Deraco\, and collaborated with prof. Damiano Meacci. He has attended the final year of the course as an Erasmus student at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid\, where he studied with Julián Ávila Sausor and Alberto Bernal Corral. He has taken part in masterclasses with professors Cesare Saldicco (Milan) and Hara Alonso (Stockholm). He continues his violin career\, having recently played with the Italian Youth Orchestra and the European Youth Orchestra in Madrid. He has collaborated with the Gynaikos Quartet\, which played one of his pieces in the ChorAsis exhibition space (Prato)\, and was recently selected to participate in the biennial electronic music festival In-Sonora\, which takes place in Madrid.\n \n\n/// The Entropic Arias  [A/V performance]  With ‘The Entropic Arias’\, Amma Ateria sonically encapsulates her post-concussion neurogenesis as it enters stages of maximal entropy. Out of 270 sonic fragments\, series of movements emerges —each an abstraction navigating the acceleration of entropy toward a state of equilibrium. This work unfolds as an immersive audiovisual memento and documentation\, blurring the line between collapse and emergence\, mirroring dissonance : harmony\, limerence : surrender. It invites audiences into a space where breakdowns—sonic or cognitive—become thresholds for clarity and balance for meditation. \nAmma Ateria /// is an electroacoustic composer working in psychoacoustics\, binaural beats and equal-loudness contour. Her focus remains faithful to both extremes of polarity in systemic spectrums — soft : severe\, entropy : equilibrium\, utilizing brainwave entrainment\, time shifts\, and neurological responses to DELTA\, THETA\, ALPHA\, BETA\, and GAMMA waves as material. Born in Hong Kong\, working in San Francisco and New York City —with memories of condensed cities\, she gravitates to frequencies of close-ranged airplanes\, polyrhythmic occurrences\, out-of-body experiences\, and sustained harmonics intersected with musique concrète. Ateria studied at Mills College in music composition\, specialization in electronic music\, audio engineering\, and media technology; presented works at Pioneer Works\, Titanik Gallery\, BAMPFA\, Exploratorium\, Marfa Sounding\, CCRMA Stanford University\, Cinematheque\, YBCA\, Minnesota Street Project\, Other Minds\, Recombinant Lab’\, Cone Shape Top\, Fort Mason Arts & Culture\, Gray Area\, The Lab\, SFEMF\, GAIDA Festival\, Elektronmusikstudion\, Blaues Rauschen\, The Music Gallery\, FIMAV\, Digital in Berlin\, Meakusma\, TwentyAlpha\, Silence Touch\, 2220 Arts + Archives\, Public Records. \n\n/// Xiamma [performance] is a solo electroacoustic performance emerging from research on musical form\, memory\, and the perception of time. The work deconstructs and reassembles diverse musical languages – including jazz\, hip-hop\, ambient\, rock\, and electroacoustic music – to create a continuously evolving soundscape. At its core\, Xiamma investigates the composition\, decomposition\, and recomposition of musical form\, exploring sound as a tactile material and the relationship between listening and touch. The structure is open\, with a variable duration between 15 and 50 minutes\, and is built from a sequence of independent sections – self-contained sonic ecosystems – that can be recombined in different ways for each presentation. This modular approach adapts the performance to the specific context and ensures that no two presentations are ever the same. Improvisation and live processing of sonic materials play a central role in shaping the work in real time.\nSimone Faraci /// is a composer and improviser based in Bologna\, whose artistic research focuses on improvisation and experimental electronic music. He mainly composes music for sound installations\, dance and theater\, and his live activity spans both underground and institutional contexts\, with works presented in Italy and abroad. As an improviser\, he has performed with Francesco Giomi\, Alvin Curran\, and Giancarlo Schiaffini. In 2017 he founded Minus Collettivo\, a group dedicated to electroacoustic improvisation\, with which he has performed at several internationally renowned festivals. Since 2019 he has collaborated with TREE (Tempo Reale Electroacoustic Ensemble)\, with which he has performed numerous concerts and released albums with the French label Elli Records. His discography includes solo releases (Echo ex Machina\, 2021; Mføku\, 2023) as well as several albums with Minus Collettivo and TREE. He teaches Electroacoustic Music Composition at the Bologna Conservatory and is coordinator of educational activities at Tempo Reale.
URL:https://www.mainfest.it/calendar/main25_kora1/
LOCATION:KORA – Contemporary Arts Center\, Via Vittorio Emanuele\, 19\, CASTRIGNANO DE' GRECI (LE)\, 73020\, Italia
CATEGORIES:Audiovisual,Live Performance,Sound Art
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SUMMARY:MA/IN25 - KORA②
DESCRIPTION:© Touchy Toy Collective [Concrete Casings]\n \n🎟 biglietti disponibili solo in loco\n▷ opening / installazione\nh 20.30\n⦿ Francesco Enea Gueli [IT] /// Rimuginio\nsound installation \n▷ concerto\nh 21.00\n⦿ Liann J. Kang [KR] /// L’amour pur\nper voce + elettronica\nsoprano: Eleonora Claps\n \n⦿ Haou Nebout [IT] /// Laminar Flow\nlive performance\nelectronics: Biagio Cavallo – Andrea Fabris – Riccardo Tesorini \n⦿ Touchy Toy [IT] /// Concrete Casings\nA/V performance\n \n\n /// L’amour pur [mixed media] A pure\, bold\, dazzling connection of souls At a heartbreakingly beautiful point in time and space. How truthful and courageous can you truly be? – L’amour pur is a collaboration with composer and sound designer Victor Zheng for engineering and live electronics for the live performance.\nLiann J. Kang /// Born in Seoul\, South Korea\, Liann J. Kang is a composer residing in the US. In her work\, she seeks to direct the audience’s perception of sound and space altered by crafted sonic illusions. Inspired by her own synesthesia\, her compositions stimulate not only hearing\, but all the senses collectively to each awaken uniquely in response to the temporal art of music. Kang is a 2025 Tanglewood Music Center Composition Fellow and has received 2025 ICMC Best Student Music Award\, First Prize of the 2024 Sweetwater/SEAMUS Commission Award\, and 2024 Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship. Her works have featured internationally at events and conferences including SEAMUS\, EMM\, NYCEMF\, ICMC\, Napoleon Electronic Media Festival\, CHIMEFest at University of Chicago\, Sound Spaces in Malmö\, Sweden. Her primary teachers have included Philippe Hurel\, Yan Maresz\, João Pedro Oliveira\, Eli Fieldsteel\, and has previously had masterclasses led by Kaija Saariaho and John Harbison. Currently\, Kang is a doctoral candidate in composition-theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, where she also earned her Master of Music.\nElonora Claps [soprano] /// Born in Lucania\, she studied at the “G. Martucci” Conservatory of Salerno under E. Scatarzi and specialized with A. Caiello\, J. Fraser\, Sarah Maria Sun\, and D. M.-Dansac\, attending institutions such as the Royaumont Foundation\, John-Cage-Orgel Foundation\, Darmstädter Ferienkurse\, and Verona Opera Academy. Her repertoire embraces a wide range of vocal styles with a strong focus on 20th-century and contemporary music\, both acoustic and electroacoustic. She collaborates with composers\, ensembles\, and research centers such as the CRM in Rome and the Conservatory of Salerno\, and she performs regularly in international festivals and venues\, including the Venice Biennale\, Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome)\, San Fedele (Milan)\, and the Abrons Art Center (New York). A finalist of the “Premio Bucchi Interpretazione 2015\,” she has premiered numerous works\, with commissions dedicated to her at SpazioMusica and the MA/IN Festival. Her repertoire includes works by Berio\, Cage\, Ligeti\, and Kurtág\, and she has recorded for Stradivarius\, Edizioni Scientifiche\, and Cesmel. \n\n/// Laminar Flow [performance] In fluid dynamics\, laminar flow describes the motion of infinitesimal layers sliding in parallel\, without turbulence or mixing\, each preserving its own molecular composition. Even at a microscopic level\, every section remains distinct\, yet the overall result is a single coherent flow\, shaped by the sum of its trajectories. This principle inspires Laminar Flow\, an electroacoustic improvisation in which three sound currents — Andrea Fabris’ drums and live electronics\, Riccardo Tesorini’s modular synthesizers\, and Biagio Cavallo’s digital processing — evolve as independent yet complementary layers\, intertwining into a shared continuum. Subtle timbral and dynamic variations shape a landscape in constant expansion and contraction\, evoking the tension and cohesion of a collective ritual. In this way\, the trio Haou Nebout envisions a sonic world where distinct musical currents intertwine\, echoing the measured flow of individual elements — a living space where sound is inhabited\, constructed\, and transformed\, and where performers and listeners become part of the same\, ever-evolving ritual.\nHaou Nebout /// is an electroacoustic trio based in Bologna (IT)\, featuring Biagio Cavallo (laptop)\, Andrea Fabris (drums\, live electronics)\, and Riccardo Tesorini (synthesizers\, samplers). The group explores the intersections of non-idiomatic improvisation and new territories of sound research\, developing a sonic landscape where the archaic meets the post-human\, and apocalyptic imagery evokes a return to the origins. Recently\, they have collaborated with the label Small Forms (Wien) on their first album\, released in December 2024. Since 2023\, they have been touring Europe presenting frontal electroacoustic improvisation\, multi- channel performances\, and sound installation\n \n\n/// Concrete Casings [A/V performance] The outskirts of Rome are dotted with intentions and ideas that were never brought to fruition. Illegal construction\, rigged contracts\, and neglect have resulted in the proliferation of abandoned construction sites\, destined to remain an indelible testimony to such errors. These dilapidated exoskeletons are memories like fossils from past epochs. The unfinished structures\, left incomplete\, tell stories of unfulfilled promises and shattered dreams. Instead of being vibrant and prosperous\, the peripheral neighborhoods host these carcasses of concrete and steel that degrade the urban environment and scar the landscape. Each abandoned building carries with it a narrative of corruption and inefficiency\, a story of betrayed hopes and wasted resources. The rusted scaffolding and incomplete walls are silent monuments to mismanagement\, a perpetual warning of the consequences of greed and negligence. These urban skeletons\, though immobile and silent\, scream a reality too often ignored. They are the tangible proof of a system in dire need of profound reforms and a new vision\, one that can transform intentions into accomplished actions and restore dignity and beauty to Rome’s outskirts.\nTouchy Toy ///  was founded in 2021 by Gabriele Petrillo\, Andrea Lupo\, and Matteo Camerini\, classmates in Electronic Music Composition at Saint Louis College of Music in Rome. In 2023\, Christian D’Amico and David Quintarelli joined the collective. Their work explores the interplay between technology and aesthetics through sound installations\, audiovisual performances\, and musical compositions. Inspired by a utopian vision of the digital age\, their style blends pop culture references with semantic short-circuits. Touchy Toy has presented works at festivals and venues such as Ladispolaneamente\, CIM (Colloquio di Informatica Musicale)\, Palazzo Brancaccio (LCF)\, Nuovo Cinema Aquila (LPM)\, and Brancaleone\, often experimenting with live coding. Their A/V performance Concrete Casings premiered at the Visual Sound Festival (Nuovo Cinema Aquila) and was later showcased at PatchLab Festival (Kraków)\, D-CAF (Cairo)\, Chromosphere at Fotonica 2024 (dome version) and Videocittà 2025.
URL:https://www.mainfest.it/calendar/main25_kora2/
LOCATION:KORA – Contemporary Arts Center\, Via Vittorio Emanuele\, 19\, CASTRIGNANO DE' GRECI (LE)\, 73020\, Italia
CATEGORIES:Audiovisual,Live Performance,Mixed Media,Sound Art
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