Double bill with the synthesised sound environments of Italian sound artist Nicola Ratti's Automatic Popular Music and a performance by Cara Tolmie who works with complexity of the bind between the singing voice and the body using defamiliarised, uncanny and repetitive vocalisation.
Nicola Ratti is a multifaceted musician and sound designer who has been active for years in various experimental fields. His sound production creates systems that take shape from repetition and dilation, with particular attention to the construction of environments that gravitate in relation to the space and architecture we inhabit and balancing the emotional and perceptive orientations to which we are accustomed.
Born in Milan in 1978, he has performed solo or in other groups in Europe, North America, Russia and Japan and his albums have been published by various international labels. As a musician he has collaborative projects such as Bellows with Giuseppe Ielasi, NR / MA with Masato Egashira, What We Do When in Silence with Alessandra Novaga and Enrico Malatesta, Superpaesaggio with Malatesta and Attila Faravelli.
Cara Tolmie spends much of her time oscillating between contexts as an artist, musician, performer, DJ, pedagogue and researcher. Her works have been performed and exhibited widely at art galleries, music festivals, biennials, conferences and in the public space – both as solo presentations and collaborative projects.