The opening of Autunnale 2026 is entrusted to two figures who share a sensitivity to form, perception, and the economy of sound. Beatrice Dillon, one of the most original voices on the contemporary electronic scene, presents Untitled, a selection of new solo works still in development, created during an artistic residency at San Fedele. The project delves deeper into some of the central cores of her research: the fragmentation of the pattern, the organization of acoustic space, and a practice of subtraction that relies on measure and control to build musical tension. Her writing, which traverses irregular rhythms, microstructures, and a highly refined timbral definition, occupies a border territory: it belongs neither to club culture nor to academic tradition, but instead constructs a personal language made of asymmetries, sonic geometries, and continuous perceptual shifts. Dillon works with essential materials, transformed through minimal variations that progressively alter the perception of time and space, privileging processes of rarefaction over accumulation and making the balance between presence and absence one of the distinctive traits of her poetics.

Her presence perfectly inaugurates the theme of Ritratti trasversali (Transversal Portraits): an artist who has defined an immediately recognizable stylistic signature while moving on the margins of any label.

Alongside her, Loscil (Scott Morgan) presents Lake Fire, an audiovisual work that continues his long-standing inquiry into the environmental qualities of sound. For over twenty years, Morgan has been building landscapes that pair compositional rigor, an attention to resonance, and an almost cinematic sensitivity to space. His works evoke natural phenomena, geographical memories, and suspended atmospheres—they do not describe, but rather suggest. Lake Fire fits seamlessly into this lineage, intertwining image and sound into a perceptual continuum where the environmental dimension becomes a mental space. The combination with the acoustics of the Auditorium San Fedele, designed for immersive listening, allows the audience to perceive the multi-layered depth and delicacy of his transitions.