POLYGONIA / SCANNER
INNER_SPACES AUTUNNALE 2025 - ITINERARI INSOLITI
Opening, Polygonia presents her new live set Dream Horizons, taken from the eponymous album released by Dekmantel. Born in 1996, Polygonia (the stage name of Lindsey Wang) is among the most original emerging figures of the international electronic scene: her work moves within a hybrid space between techno, ambient, chamber music, and timbral exploration, with an aesthetic suspended between the precision of sound design and the intuitive freedom of dreams.
Dream Horizons, as the title suggests, is a collection of twelve dreamlike scenarios, each exploring a different inner vision. Polygonia constructs these worlds using various expressive means: in addition to electronic production, she employs her own voice and samples she has recorded herself—playing saxophone, flute, violin, and percussion—in an organic synthesis that blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial. The result is a mutable music that traverses landscapes of aquatic calm and kinetic pulsations, melodic fragments, and complex rhythmic structures—never abandoning a sense of abstract poetry and bodily presence.
The album—and the live performance derived from it—stand out for their expressive coherence that embraces variety: from the techno beats of Soul Reflections to the broken, hypnotic motifs of Mindfunk, up to the meditative closing piece Essential Breath. Polygonia moves within a sound world that is as intimate as it is visionary. It’s music that also engages the imagination, like a diary of lucid dreams where every detail is carefully crafted.
In the second part, Scanner, the stage name of English artist Robin Rimbaud, active since the mid-1990s and known for his ability to weave soundscapes, field recordings, and vocal archives into a unique and deeply emotional narrative. A key figure in the British scene, Scanner has always explored the limits of auditory perception, challenging the boundaries between public and private, memory and present, music and document. His work—often conceived as an unbroken flow—merges elements of ambient, glitch, post-techno, and sound art, creating atmospheres dense with tension and introspection.
In his live performances, Scanner constructs true interior landscapes. It is never about an aesthetic for its own sake: what Scanner stages is a sharp and personal reflection on how technology shapes our perception of the world, memory, and identity. Within the context of Itinerari Insoliti, the pairing of Polygonia and Scanner draws a transversal line connecting different generations and practices, united by a shared vision: the belief that sound—in its many forms—can still be a tool for exploration, transformation, and storytelling.
Between dream and archive, between body and abstraction, this evening invites you to lose yourself in the labyrinths of listening, in search of new inner geographies.