It is June and like every year Milan returns to ask yourself: will we ever have an electronic music festival worthy of a great European capital? Today the question remains more than valid and still unanswered. The new Exo land, however, is becoming the only reality that resists in responding to the city's desire to have a summer appointment with electronic music and experimentation. Taking the most symbolic places in Parco Sempione, the green lung in the center of Milan, with a lineup of European caliber, this year the festival ranges from old -acquainted artists such as Lorenzo Senni, who will bring the project Eureka! (Mix Legacy 2011–2025) Inside Torre Branca, isolating and recombining hundreds of build-ups mainly from trance music, to the live of Laura Agnusdei, which will revisit the song Fountain Mix by John Cage created at the Rai musical phonology study.
The second chapter of Earth Exo focuses for 2025 on a flexible cultural model e Site Specific which on the one hand radically to the territory of election of Milan and, after the summer, will explore the cities of Rome and Palermo, respectively on 27 September at the strong antennas and 25 October in Villa Tasca.
We have selected the most interesting projects that we will see in Milan this year. With an eye to the experimentation and another to the straight case that will make you dance, there are real chicchette not to be missed.
Florian Hecker | Favn
Florian Hecker's stage. Press photo
Co-core with Unsound, the Polish festival that takes place every year in Krakow and which is confirmed among the most avant-garde experimental realities in Europe, Favn It is an automated performance created by the German artist and pioneer of sound computers Florian Hecker. Inside the nineteenth -century spaces of the Appiani building, Favn Track the nuanced boundaries between reality and imagination, sensory perception and hallucination. Inspired by psychophysics of the late nineteenth century, Favn Use the question “What have I heard?” As a tool to investigate the constructive cognitive processes that intervene in apparently sensory – or even sensual experiences. Both on the 28th and June 29 is scheduled, but if you go there on Saturday at 15 or 16, you also get Florian who makes a lecture on the project.
Bill Kouligas & Forensis | The Drum and the Birde
The Drum and the Bird. Press photo
Liminal project that explores the space between art, video, sound experience and memory. Bill Kouligas and Forensis, a non -profit association that makes research in the field of violence and repression perpetrated by colonialism around the world, have created an audio/video show in which the traces left by the German colonialism in Namibia investigate. Starting from the idea that the natural environment is a repository of signs, stories and passages that stratify over time, they have tried to return voice and visibility to all those sounds and those experiences silenced from the flow of the years and the fail of memory. They collected environmental audio, oral testimonies and used space-visual modeling programs to save us from collective amnesia on the damage that colonialism has left us around us. The appointment is from 11 pm on Saturday 28 to the Milan Triennale Garden.
Hundebiss Records
Marylou. Photo: Romain Guede
The Milanese label born in 2008 and dedicated to the discovery of new talents between Dancehall and sound contamination collaborates with Edo Edo for a free afternoon (Sunday 29) on the stage of the continuous theater of Burri. The fixed scenography, hidden among the trees of Parco Sempione, will host Marylou, the French DJ stationed in Berlin who mixes dub, breakcore and jazz improvisations; Jim Nedd, Italian-Colombian multidisciplinary artist already part of the primitive art; DJ Anderson Do Paraiso, who will make a live tribute to the Funk Mineiro scene, a subgenre of the Brazilian funk originally from Belo Horizonte of which he is one of the most important exponents; Alys (Alys) Alys, DJ who has already split in festivals such as the Atonal of Berlin and at the Venice Biennale, in B2B with Piezo, a Milanese artist who went to Bristol to learn how the culture of sound system works to serve it in Italy on a silver dish.
