Nextones

Gang of Ducks is a multidisciplinary platform from Turin.
Gang of Ducks Soundsystem will celebrate the platform’s ten years anniversary with two special DJ sets.

Holy Tongue is a project of percussionist Valentina Magaletti with producer Al Wootton and Japanese multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artist Susumu Mukai: the trio travel through dub, dance and psychedelia for a high-energy performance bordering on a spiritual experience.

Raised in the industrial suburbs of Turin, Stenny is one of the most longeve Ilian Tape affiliates. His research draws from club culture and avant-garde electronics, fusing elements of Techno and Bass Music. He offers an adventurous and versatile DJ set, dodging genre boundaries through precise and intuitive technique.
In 2019, Pitchfork magazine described his debut album ‘Upsurge’ as a counter-argument to the more rigid strains of Techno, “an impressive testament to introspection and personality.”

Najaaraq Vestbirk (b. 1987) also known as Courtesy, is a Danish artist based between Copenhagen and Berlin. Her multidisciplinary practice began on the dancefloor, using it as a starting point to
examine the organic relationships formed between strangers, investigating the ways people coalesce
in these transcendent spaces and the intimate exchanges that occupy it. Spanning installation,
composition, DJ sets, performance, photography and video, Vestbirk is highly interested in the liveness and interactive potential of performance, particularly in collective exchange and questioning
ways in which the artist can absolve the line between artist and audience.

Born Mariachiara Troianiello, Katatonic Silentio moves the border between electronic music, performing arts and sound studies. Her sets oscillate between an analog past and a frenetic technological future, mixing concrete, dub and ambient music to arrive at ethereal soundscapes of pure abstraction. Performing alongside the independent artist and researcher Francesco D’Abbraccio as Lorem, a multimedia project using Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence.

Lorenzo Senni, one of Italy’s most celebrated artists, will present a very special live audio-visual performance. He has performed some of the world’s leading cultural institutions and festivals, from Centre Pompidou in Paris to Tate Modern in London, to Sonar and Primavera. A multidisciplinary artist with a punk/hardcore background and now devoted to, among other things, the deconstruction of trance, Senni’s research touches fields as diverse as visual art, fashion, film, theater and television.

VTSS has quickly established herself as one of the most vital, uncompromising and visible new talents in the electronic music scene. As a DJ VTSS cuts an imposing figure in the upper reaches of big (dark) room, peak-time energy. At the same time, her productions have moved from distinctive, disruptive variations of club music towards a more diverse, highly personal strain of electronica.

Richie Hawtin is a genuine original. His critical acclaim spans the creative realm of the fine art community to the technological vanguard. Meanwhile, as a performing artist, he is constantly pushing conceptual frontiers, moving things forward, welcoming as many as he can to ideas and experiences that would have seemed pure science fiction when he began his career. He’s one of the great masters of world electronics, a pioneer of the technological avant-garde, able to be at ease in dialogue with the most diverse disciplines, from visual art to dance: Mister Richie Hawtin, who with his DJ set will transport the festival audience directly into another dimension. Defined by the New York Times as “one of the intellectual forces in the world of electronics”, an artist also celebrated by some of the most prestigious places of international culture such as the Guggenheim in New York or the Grand Palais in Paris, where in 2011 he collaborated with a name of the caliber of Anish Kapoor.