CHIAROSCURO
MON 16/09
Auditorium San Fedele, ore 20.30
NADIA STRUIWIGH
Birds Of Paradise
HUERCO S.
Live set
MON 30/09 in collaboration with Österreichisches Kulturforum Mailand
INNER_SPACES SPECIAL
Chiesa di San Fedele, ore 20.30
Angels and Archangels
ARS DISCANTICA
Organo e live electronics
CHRISTIAN FENNESZ
Laus Angelorum*
MON 14/10
Auditorium San Fedele, ore 20.30
WATA IGARASHI
Live set
DREW MCDOWALL
A Thread, Silvered and Trembling
MON 04/11 in collaboration with Syntax Ensemble
Auditorium San Fedele, ore 20.30
GABRIEL FAURÉ – PASQUALE CORRADO
Requiem*
SHACKLETON con Takumi Motokawa
The Purge of Tomorrow
TUE 19/11 in collaboration with Linecheck
Auditorium San Fedele, ore 20.30
ÉLIANE RADIGUE
Triptych II
LORENZO SENNI
Canone infinito extended *
MON 02/12 in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Mailand
Auditorium San Fedele, ore 20.30
LISA MORGENSTERN
Piano & synth live electronics set
KEVIN RICHARD MARTIN
Black
* world premiere
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From Sept. 16 to Dec. 2, 2024, Milan’s San Fedele Auditorium and Church will host the fall edition of INNER_SPACES, the electronic music and audiovisual arts festival since 2012 a reference point for experimentation and interdisciplinary research. Six new events feature world premieres, commissioned by San Fedele Musica: Laus Angelorum by Christian Fennesz, Requiem by Fauré-Corrado and Canone infinito extended by Lorenzo Senni, the latter in co-production with Linecheck festival. Some unavoidable protagonists of electronic music present live unreleased or recently released projects, such as Drew McDowall (Psychic TV, Coil), Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug) and Shackleton, along with names that are increasingly established on the international scene, such as Huerco S., or fast-rising, including Nadia Struiwigh, Lisa Morgenstern and Wata Igarashi, not forgetting the pioneers of the genre (Èliane Radigue).
The theme of the autumn program draws its inspiration from the pictorial procedure of chiaroscuro: in addition to its technical meaning in the visual arts as a play on variations of brightness and projections of shadow to give relief to an image, it is also the term for the emphasis intended to be given in the performance of musical works to certain sections by means of an appropriate contrast of tones, harmonic timbres. It is therefore an artifice that highlights the existence of the symbolic-coloristic dimension in sound perception.
In some events in the new season of INNER_SPACES, the chiaroscuro component is employed in the juxtaposition of opposing elements (musical genres, sound sources). In others, in the presence of contrasting tones between the two parts of the themed evening, sometimes in terms of a gradual transition from shadow to light and vice versa. Finally, chiaroscuro can take on a metaphorical order, a representation of opposing symbolic realities, such as darkness and light, life and death.