ITINERARI INSOLITI

MON 15/09
Auditorium San Fedele, h. 20.30
FABIO MACHIAVELLI, ALBERTO ANHAUS
KODE9 pres. Escapology live a/v

MON 22/09  
Church of San Fedele, h. 20.30
NICOLÁS JAAR
μακάριοι
live electronics
with ARS DISCANTICA

MON 06/10
Auditorium San Fedele, h. 20.30
CINACUSMONIUM
ORSON WELLES’ TOUCH OF EVIL

MON 13/10 in collaboration with Syntax Ensemble and Institut français Milan
Auditorium San Fedele, h. 20.30
TERRY RILEY
A Rainbow in Curved Air
SYNTAX ENSEMBLE
MADJID KHALADJ
Solo percussions classical persian music

MON 27/10 in collaboration with Österreichisches Kulturforum Mailand
Auditorium San Fedele, h. 20.30
ROBERT SCHWARZ
Stridulations 1-14 for immersive multichannel audio system
DASHA RUSH
live

WED 05/11 in collaboration with Syntax Ensemble and Institut français Milan 
Auditorium San Fedele, h. 20.30
ERIK SATIE – MAN RAY
ENSEMBLE DISSONANZEN
FOREST SWORDS
(Deconstructed)

MON 17/11 in Coproduction with Linecheck Music Meeting and Festival
Auditorium San Fedele, h. 20.30
LUCY RAILTON
Portal, new work commissioned by INNER_SPACES and Linecheck
SPECIAL GUEST (TBA)

MON 01/12 in collaborazione con Goethe-Institut Mailand
Auditorium San Fedele, h. 20.30
POLYGONIA
Dream Horizons live
SCANNER
live

MON 15/12 in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Mailand
Auditorium San Fedele, h. 20.30
LORENZO MICHELI
baroque guitar
WOLFGANG VOIGT
Rückverzauberung live

SEASON TICKETS

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San Fedele Musica is pleased to announce the 2025 autumn edition of INNER_SPACES, the electronic music and audiovisual arts festival that serves as a reference point for experimentation and interdisciplinary research. Titled Unusual Itineraries, it is a season with nine events at the San Fedele Auditorium and the Church of San Fedele in Milan from September 15 to December 15, 2025, featuring some of the most representative figures of experimental electronics.

Throughout the nine evenings, different musical and audiovisual itineraries will be explored, characterized by unusual paths, unexpected destinations, and ventures into unfamiliar territories—sometimes distant in time and space, other times entirely imaginary.

The beginning and the end of the season will be emblematic in this sense, like a circle that closes, returning to the starting point but with a new perspective. The first act of the festival is a solo for disassembled and deconstructed electric guitar (Fabio Machiavelli / Alberto Anhaus), while the final concert features the instrument in its reassembled and older version—acoustically fragile and refined—the baroque guitar of virtuoso Lorenzo Micheli. In both the opening and closing concerts, there is another asymmetrical connection: on September 15, the dystopian audiovisual story of Kode9, a tribute to escaping from a world of technological and cultural oppression, and on December 15, Wolfgang Voigt’s late Romantic dramaturgy, representing a process of re-enchantment of the world in contrast to the previous one.

A special project in the sacred spaces of the Church of San Fedele will see Nicolás Jaar’s return to INNER_SPACES on Monday, September 22. It will be a grand fresco for vocal quartet and live electronics on the theme of the Beatitudes.

After three years of silence, Cinacusmonium returns on October 6 with one of Orson Welles’ most daring and visionary works, Touch of Evil, shot mostly at night on the US-Mexico border. It’s a journey to the edges of ambiguity, a fierce analysis of power, corruption, and manipulation of truth.

Unusual geographies are linked on October 13. The evening begins with an imaginary Indian raga reconstructed by Terry Riley in his iconic piece A Rainbow in Curved Air, performed by the Syntax Ensemble in an authorized version by the American composer, and continues with Persian classical music in the precise, vibrant tradition embraced from a young age by Iranian maestro Madjid Khaladj.

An unprecedented and contrasting encounter between two distinctive voices of the European experimental scene characterizes the evening of October 27. Viennese sound architect Robert Schwarz, known for his immersive ambient compositions built from natural recordings and digital synthesis, and Russian producer Dasha Rush, who presents a new live ambient set characterized by refined electronic layers and immersive spatialization.

On November 5, it’s a journey back in time to 1930s Paris with the cinematic art of surrealist Man Ray, accompanied by the music of Erik Satie, whose centenary of death is celebrated—sometimes literally, sometimes reinterpreted by Ensemble Dissonanzen. Overlaid is another journey into an arcane and dark time, reimagined through the ambient electronics of British artist Forest Swords, performing his live (Deconstructed), live reinterpreting his latest album Bolted and other works with voice fragments, musique concrète, magnetic tape loops, and room reverberations.

In co-production with the Linecheck Festival, on November 17th, an event will feature cellist and composer Lucy Railton, who will present a experimental set blending contemporary music and electronics. This will be preceded by a special guest, to be announced later.

A final taste of unusual itineraries is offered on December 1st by the multidisciplinary artist Polygonia, with her latest audiovisual work Dream Horizons, and by the historic figure of British sound art, Scanner (Robin Rimbaud). In an ideal passing of the baton between generations, the evening opens with Polygonia’s sound vision, which combines electronics, voice, acoustic instruments, and dreamlike atmospheres in an intimate and multisensory exploration of dreams as an inner landscape. This is followed by Scanner’s more abstract and introspective soundscapes, where field recordings, archival materials, and sound design intertwine in a profound reflection on themes of memory, perception, and identity.

In collaboration with the University of Milan, Itinerari Insoliti finally proposes, on Tuesday, September 16th at the San Fedele Auditorium and Wednesday, September 17th at the Statale, two days of study titled Sound Spaces. Philosophical Research between Music and Architecture, curated by Fabrizia Bandi and Amalia Salvestrini. Starting from the 20th-century avant-gardes and further enhanced by the possibilities introduced by new technological tools, the relationship between space and sound today is a research theme capable of fostering disciplinary dialogue across different art forms. Evidence of this are the new languages in music and architecture, as well as the theoretical and philosophical research around concepts such as atmospheres, environments, and soundscapes.