Terraforma EXO is back. We’re excited to share the dates, locations, and key collaborations for EXO 2026.
We begin our journey in New York on July 24–25, where EXO lands at MoMA PS1, opening a new chapter of exchange within one of the most vital spaces for contemporary experimentation.
We then return to Palermo on October 17, at Villa Tasca, after last year’s edition, continuing our work in a place where sound, landscape, and heritage remain deeply intertwined.
The journey concludes in Milan on November 26–27 at the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber, featuring a very special live performance developed with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, initiating a dialogue with an institution that has consistently shaped new territories for artistic production and research.
Just over a month to go until Autechre return to Milan, and we’re happy to announce two special opening performances.
Bochum Welt, composer and producer Gianluigi Di Costanzo, first emerged through his work with Aphex Twin’s own label in the mid-90s, and has since spent three decades building one of the most distinctive voices in electronic music. Following him on stage is MDX, the live alias of Andy Maddocks, founder of the legendary Manchester label Skam Records and a key figure within the elusive Gescom collective.
Considered one of the most defining forces in contemporary electronic music, Autechre have continuously reshaped the language of sound through fractured rhythmic architectures, unpredictable compositional systems, and a relentless exploration of algorithm, error, and digital matter.
Nextones is an international festival that promotes sonic and landscape explorations in the territory of Val D’Ossola. From 2019 we work with Tones Teatro Natura Foundation to offer a contemporary, avant-garde artistic proposal, in line with the spirit of the festival, sharing a strong ecological sensitivity. The visual identity of Nextones 2026 is by photographer Rachele Daminelli.
Nextones 2026 has been a real success with stunning perfomances by Daniel Blumberg, Carrier, Abdullah Miniawy & Simo Cell, Alessandro Adriani & Ariella Vidach, OKO DJ, John T. Gast, Helena Hauff, DJ Hell, OK Williams, Somatic Rituals, Miriam Adefris, Kenichi Iwasa, Laura Masotto, Shane Parish, Nosedrip
Una Boccata d’Arte — the diffuse contemporary art project conceived by Fondazione Elpis — is at its seventh edition, bringing together 20 artists, 20 villages and 20 regions across the Italian peninsula. From June 20 to October 4, 2026, each intervention turns a small town into a site of listening, research and shared imagination. Threes Productions has collaborated with the project since its first edition, curating selected regionl chapters each year — and this year, three of them debut on opening weekend: Tuscany, Puglia and Veneto.
In Puglia, the Gargano village of Ischitella (FG) hosts In questo frangente, a new work by sound artist Enrico Malatesta, curated by VOGA Art Project — Flavia Tritto and Nicola Guastamacchia — together with Threes Productions. A brass plate, treated with fire and oxidation, becomes an acoustic, tactile and visual map.
In Tuscany, the small town of Palazzuolo sul Senio (FI) welcomes Swiss artist Lara Dâmaso, with a project curated by Gabriele Tosi together with Threes Productions. O fluxo que unisce não se atravessa takes the 2023 flood that destroyed one of the town’s bridges as its starting point, reflecting on bonds that don’t need to be crossed to exist.
In Veneto, Lugo di Vicenza (VI) welcomes Continua, a new project by composer and artist Renato Grieco, curated by Giovanni Giacomo Paolin and Sara Maggioni together with Threes Productions. Combining a musical performance with a sculpture-object activated as a stage prop, the work draws on three elements rooted in local memory.
Terraforma Radical School is an educational programme conceived by Threes Productions in collaboration with Fondazione Augusto Rancilio, built around sound as a process, something to be discovered, collected, shaped and shared, rather than a finished object.
Radical School explored field recording and sound manipulation as tools for listening, research, and composition. Through a series of theoretical and practical sessions, participants worked with environmental recordings, processing and transforming sonic material into new compositional forms.
At Prada Frames 2026, curated by Forma Fantasma, Threes Productions invited Neapolitan composer Renato Grieco to present a new performative project, unfolding as a series of compositions for solo harp, traverso, and violin, performed by Elena Cantarutti, Andrea Vecchiato, and Laura Masotto.
Fantasias, bagatelles, and proto-dances are reimagined as raw, essential forms. Stripped back to their core, these pieces become intimate dialogues between performer, instrument, and space.
As part of Fondazione Elpis’s public program, Threes organized “Matter of Sound,” a workshop for children.
“Every sound designer knows: the sound of the wind is made with paper” is the workshop led by Oliviero Fiorenzi and Andrea La Pietra, designed to explore sound as gesture, material, and construction. Inspired by the practice of sound designers, the workshop aims to faithfully reproduce the sound of the wind, but to interpret and evoke it through simple materials.
Starting with basic actions, paper becomes both an instrument and a sound surface, giving shape to a collective composition built through listening, rhythm, and layering. An experience that invites participants to explore sound as a creative process, transforming an everyday material into an expressive tool.
The free workshop is scheduled for April 11, 2026, and is open to children ages 6 to 10. Registration: publicprogram@fondazioneelpis.org
Following our soundtrack for Jil Sander’s SS26 runway in Milan, Threes continues the collaboration with SOUND ZINE at Tokyo’s Ginza flagship – reviving CISCO RECORDS from March 28 to May 10.
This ongoing editorial and sonic platform delves into ‘Sound and Environment’, where Issue 1 weaves conversations with Simone Bellotti, Laurel Halo and Ruggero Pietromarchi alongside visionary Japanese ambient voices like Yutaka Hirose, Soshi Takeda and Hiroyasu Sato – completed by an essay on CISCO, visuals by Takashi Homma, and a flexi disc of Halo’s FW26 soundtrack.
A homage to sonic ecology bridging fashion, music & space.
Fondazione Prada and Threes presented “Nexus”, a live performance by Iranian virtuoso percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, opening the new season of Chiesa Rossa, the series curated jointly by the two Milanese institutions since 2017. The event celebrated the release of his new solo album, published in October 2025 by the Paris-based label Latency.
On the occasion of Milano Fashion Week F/W 2026–2027, Threes once again collaborated with the Jil Sander team to oversee the soundtrack for the second show by Simone Bellotti.
We created a suspended soundscape weaving together voice and music: the poem The House Above the Sea by Chiara Barzini, interpreted by Kim Gordon, opens the show, followed by tracks by Laurel Halo and closing with “Mercy” by John Cale. A journey designed to amplify the rhythm and atmosphere of the collection.
Threes and Fondazione Prada present a live performance by American composer Kali Malone, who will perform an organ concert featuring compositions from her critically acclaimed albums ‘All Life Long’ and ‘The Sacrificial Code’ in the Church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa in Milan.
Keyboardist Kali Malone creates sprawling arrangements and undulating tones. On her 2019 record, The Sacrificial Code, Malone bucks the notion that big-room reverberation is necessary to give the pipe organ its signature texture, instead choosing to put a mic so close to a pipe organ that all the stately echo is lost in favour of something much more austere.
The sixth series of Suites, presented by Threes and Combo, in collaboration with MMT Creative Lab and with the support of Mic Direzione Generale Dello Spettacolo.
The winter program features Rai Tateishi, a musician skilled in various traditional Japanese instruments, with a particular focus on the Shinobue; Laila Sakini, a multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer, and performer who works with piano, voice, guitar, and silence, creating dynamic and textured environments; and Helen Island, a Paris-based interdisciplinary artist who explores painting, poetry, and other forms of conceptual art alongside music.
Terraforma Exo lands in Oslo for a new iteration on November 22, 2025, at BLÅ. Nestled along the Akerselva river in the heart of the city, BLÅ is where music, art, and Oslo’s creative pulse converge. Once an old mill, the venue now hums with energy, a cultural landmark hosting everything from experimental jazz to forward-thinking electronic performances. For this special night, Terraforma Exo presents a rare convergence of visionary artists: maestro Donato Dozzy, Italian-born drummer, percussionist, and composer Valentina Magaletti, and Iranian virtuoso percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi.
La Fondazione Elpis e Threes Productions presentano il terzo episodio di Basement, un progetto dedicato alla sperimentazione artistica attraverso installazioni e interventi sonori ospitati nello spazio sotterraneo della fondazione.The Flower Requiem Whistling Vases è una nuova installazione di Vica Pacheco (Oaxaca, 1993) che intreccia memoria, materialità e suono in una meditazione poetica sulla caducità e la cura. L’opera attinge ai ricordi personali dell’artista – il profumo dei gigli nella casa della nonna, i vasi di terracotta pieni di ortensie e agapanthus di sua madre – trasformandoli in un rituale acustico e scultoreo. Attraverso questa memoria sensoriale, Pacheco mette in atto un processo di trasformazione: il respiro diventa voce e il suono traccia il ciclo di vita dei fiori, dalla fioritura all’inevitabile appassimento.
Nel gennaio 2026 l’installazione si evolverà in una forma performativa: un live set di Pacheco costruito sui suoni generati dai vasi stessi, trasformando l’opera in un’esperienza viva, collettiva e condivisa.
alla Fondazione Elpis, Milano
fino al 1° febbraio 2026
Echoes of Altitude is an immersive installation developed at Stazione Centrale, combining sound and smell through the works of Sergio Maggioni and Sissell Tolaas. Fonetica Glaciale is a sound map of the Adamello glacier that intertwines with the olfactory intervention that hijacked the air conditioning system with a monocle developed from the glaciers.
Nextones is an international festival that promotes sonic and landscape explorations in the territory of Val D’Ossola. The beating heart of the festival is Tones Teatro Natura, a disused quarry that, thanks to an environmental redevelopment project, has been transformed into an evocative theatre with two stages immersed in the rocks, which from time to time give life to an evocative dialogue between art and landscape. The music programme includes a series of innovative performances, including Aya, with an immersive A/V show in collaboration with visual artist Marcel Weber aka MFO. The hypnotic synergy of Caterina Barbieri and Space Afrika. The raw, guitar-driven sound of London trio Moin, the sonic alliance between Objekt and CCL, and many others.
Music supervision for Simone Bellotti first project as the artistic director of the fashion house Jil Sander. “JS” is a new vinyl album by Bochum Welt curated by Threes for Jil Sander under the creative direction of Simone Bellotti. Seven unreleased tracks by the italian artists historically affiliated to Aphex Twin’s legendary label Rephlex, Bochum Welt’s melodic electronica and enthralling beats delve into abstraction and emotion capturing the dual essence of Jil Sander, between rigor and abandon.
For Nuits des Cabanes at the iconic Villa Medici in Rome, Threes Productions curates an intimate evening where sound and space converge. The program opened with the ethereal compositions of Clarissa Connelly, performing live in trio, weaving mythic landscapes and Nordic culture into haunting harmonies. As night deepens, Crystallmess takes over with a dynamic DJ set, blending afro-futurism, fractured club rhythms, and raw emotion into a hypnotic dancefloor experience beneath the Roman sky.
Terraforma Exo expands its participatory research format into new urban contexts.
Terraforma Exo returns to Milan’s Parco Sempione, the city’s largest green space, for two days of concerts, performances, installations and immersive sound walks with Florian Hecker, Lorenzo Senni, The Drum and The Bird, The Talk and much more.
The historic Forte Antenne, a 19th-century landmark perched on the highest point of the lush Villa Ada park, will come alive with an evening of immersive programming featuring live performances by Underground Resistance, Nkisi and a DJ set by Low Jack.
In Palermo, the 8-hectare park of Villa Tasca will be transformed into a vibrant stage, marking the final event of Terraforma Exo with live performances by Moritz Von Oswald, Rrose and a DJ set by Josey Rebelle.
On the occasion of Green&Blue Festival, Threes presented a special evening featuring MATMOS, the pioneering experimental electronic duo from San Francisco, and Laurel Halo, a genre-defying electronic artist from Los Angeles, performing a DJ set. The event took place on June 7th at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan.
VAIA – Deep Sounds from Colosseum is a new event presented by Terraforma and Carhartt WIP, whose first edition will take place on May 24th. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Tor Cervara Cave di Tufo, these historic quarries, located near the River Aniene, create a unique and atmospheric setting. Part of a larger network of quarries surrounding the Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA), these quarries were extensively mined from the late Republican to the Augustan age. Their proximity to the river made them a key source of the five million cubic meters of tuff used to build ancient Rome. An experiential landscape of a charming side of Rome made up of legend, ritual and dances right in front of the legendary Vaia Stage of Terraforma
Voices – A più voci’ is a cycle of three performances curated by Threes Productions on the occasion of the exhibition “Dove non sono mai stato, là sono”, promoted by Fondazione Elpis as part of Una Boccata D’Arte. The three appointments with artists from past editions included Elena Rivoltini, Beatriz de Rijke and Polisonum. The voice – as an expressive, narrative and relational instrument – is at the centre of the project, which puts the body, sound and architecture into dialogue. A path of shared listening that expands Threes Productions’ sound research, activating new connections between space, gesture and presence.
Curtis Roads, pioneer of electronic music, performs alongside Brian O’Reilly in an immersive audiovisual live show. A multisensory experience in which micro-sounds and real-time images merge, exploring the boundaries between composition, technology and digital art. The concert took place at Triennale VOCE in collaboration with Presto!? Records.
L’Atelier Sonore is a space for deep listening and contemplation, where the soundscapes curated by Terraforma and crafted by sound designer Giorgio Di Salvo, foster a subtle yet profound sonic experience. Through its design, the space will act as both refuge and resonator – a vessel for the ever-shifting interplay between sound, material, and human connection. The set up, designed in collaboration with the architect Francesco Lupia, is built around three core elements: a bespoke sound system, a handcrafted multifunctional listening console inspired by traditional cabinet-making, and modular seating with velvet cushions. For the opening event of May 15th, Maison Valentino and Terraforma present a 10-hour live program, showcasing the vibrancy of New York’s music scene and its rich tapestry of international influences. Beginning at 2.00pm, the event will feature a series of intimate listening sessions joined by Laraaji, Lea Bertucci, Laurel Halo, Lizzi Bougatsos, Chuquimamani-Condori, Kevin Beasley, Veronica Vasicka, Physical Therapy, creating a continuously evolving musical experience.
AXES is project by MAXXI, curated by Threes Productions and in collaboration with MINIERA. A sonic encounter between strings and electronics: where improvisation becomes pure musical alchemy. Okkyung Lee & Rashad Becker come together in an extraordinary duo, blending Okkyung’s experimental cello improvisations with Rashad’s intricate electronic soundscapes. The result is a constantly evolving dialogue of complex textures and otherworldly resonances. Okkyung Lee, a South Korean cellist, composer, and improviser, navigates a sonic universe that merges tradition with avant-garde innovation. Rashad Becker, a sound artist and mastering engineer, has worked on over 1200 albums, spanning dance, electronic, and experimental music. Together, they transform sound into an immersive experience.
Fondazione Prada with Threes presented a live performance by American composer Laraaji performing Sun Piano (2020) in the Church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa in Milan on Wednesday, 23 April 2025, at 8 pm.
Sun Piano (2020) is the first album in a trilogy composed by Laraaji that, compared to his most famous jam sessions made with electronically modified kithara, marks his comeback to the piano, the first instrument he learned to play. Registered in a church in Brooklyn, Sun Piano includes improvised R&B, soul, and New Age tracks that create meditative and thoughtful music. The common feature of each composition is a recurring metaphor in the artist’s albums—the sun as a spiritual guide and a source of renovation.
Axes is a project by MAXXI, curated by Threes Productions in collaboration with MINIERA.
Axes presents new sound experiments exploring the intersection of music and architecture. Each performance draws the audience into a web of sensory and environmental experiences, engaging with the architectural space of the museum.
For the 1st appoinment, Egyptian writer and composer Abdullah Miniawy joins cellist Karsten Hochapfel for a performance of Nigma Enigma, Miniawy’s latest solo release. Their collaboration, shaped through Le Cri Du Caire—winner of the 2023 Victoire du Jazz—blends evocative storytelling with expressive chants and dynamic cello. The concert will feature selections from Nigma Enigma alongside extended passages from Le Cri Du Caire, creating a rich sonic experience where orchestral textures merge with electronic soundscapes and immersive field recordings.
Once a month, Suites creates an intimate and engaging listening experience within the glass walls of Milan’s outdoor terrace, showcasing some of the most promising emerging artists on the international experimental scene.
This early 2025 program included the poignant vocals, guitar and saxophone of Belgian musician Milan W., the thoughtful compositions of Radio Hito, which blend electronic melodies and poetry, the ambient soundscapes of Milanese artist Atoloi, and the deconstructed noise pop of musician LA Timpa, born in Nigeria and raised in Toronto.
Threes Productions presents a live performance by Norwegian saxophonist and performer Bendik Giske in the context of Anselm Kiefer’s monumental installation “The Seven Heavenly Palaces,” at Fondazione Pirelli HangarBiccoca, in Milan. The evening is presented in partnership with the prestigious MUNCH Museum in Oslo and Fondazione Pirelli HangarBicocca, with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Rome.
Giske’s performance will dialogue with Kiefer’s installation, incorporating field recordings and ethereal, alien sounds. Giske’s musical practice, characterized by intense physicality and deep emotional connection, will merge with Kiefer’s impressive work, exploring new dimensions of interaction between sound and visual space.
Fondazione Prada presents with Threes a live performance in which American composer Tashi Wada will perform with Julia Holter songs from the new album What Is Not Strange?. The concert, produced by Threes, in collaboration with Fondazione Prada, will be held on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 8 p.m. in the Church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa in Milan.
What Is Not Strange? is Tashi Wada’s most extensive and passionate musical work performed live with his partner Julia Holter. To create this album, the composer was inspired by the writings of American poet Philip Lamantia. The songs explore existential themes and the search for one’s identity through contrasting melodies and surreal atmospheres. His artistic practice explores the effects of resonance and dissonance in music using unconventional tuning systems and simple sound structures causing listeners to experience unexpected and almost dreamlike emotional states that vary from moment to moment.
Axes is a project by MAXXI, curated by Threes Productions in collaboration with MINIERA.
Axes presents three sound experiments exploring the intersection of music and architecture. Each performance draws the audience into a web of sensory and environmental experiences, engaging with the architectural space of the museum.
Threes hosted the Danish composer Astrid Sonne who presented her highly acclaimed 2024 album Great Doubts for the first time in Rome, Bendik Giske and LF58.
We’re thrilled to unveil the 3rd series of Suites, brought to you by Threes and Combo.
Suites is an intimate yet collective dimension taking place once a month in the evocative setting of combo’s dehor in Milan.
The Terraforma Exo spin-off presented two sonic journeys in the city of Milan.
Terraforma presented Ultimo Cielo, the sound piece composed by Caterina Barbieri, taking place at Torre Branca on October 5th and 6th. The installation will be amplified by a site-specific speaker set-up designed by Giorgio Di Salvo and the support of Slam Jam.
During the same days, Terraforma hosted Radio City Portrait, a project stemming from ‘Ritratto di Città’, a pivotal reference in the history of electroacoustic music. Radio City Portrait reinterprets the original radiophonic piece created in 1954 by Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna on the occasion of its 70th anniversary.
Fondazione Elpis and Threes present a new episode of ‘Basement’, a space dedicated to artistic experimentation through installations and sound interventions housed in the basement of Fondazione Elpis.For the second episode, Basement will host Eunoè, an audio/visual installation by French artist Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle.
Eunoé is an immersive installation that envelops visitors in a sonic and visual experience, designed to recreate deep connections with the past. Inspired by science fiction, the work is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue between art, therapy, and neuroscience, born from the collaboration between Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle and experts in the field.
The initiative is the result of an ongoing collaboration between the Fondazione Elpis and Threes with the aim of pursuing the investigation of sound experimentation in the Foundation’s spaces.
Terraforma in collaboration with La Notte and Cieloterra present: TIKIMAN with SCION
Friday, September 13th – Bunker, Turin
Saturday, September 14th – Forte Antenne, Rome.
TIKIMAN has been a pivotal figure in the evolution of dub techno. His 2003 album Vanguard Sound Vol. 1, where he masterfully blends his dub roots with techno influences, has left a lasting impact on the electronic music landscape.
He is also renowned for his collaborations with the German duo Rhythm & Sound, contributing his distinctive voice to seminal works like Rhythm & Sound w/ Tikiman (1998) and Rhythm & Sound – Showcase (2003), both of which are considered milestones in the genre.
Nextones is an international festival of music, audiovisual arts and research. The festival takes place in the picturesque area of the Ossola Valley, having Tones Teatro Natura as its cornerstone. The 2024 edition takes place from July 18 to July 21 and features site-specific performances and large audio/video shows by some of the most interesting artists and researchers on the contemporary scene.
Nextones is part of Tones Teatro Natura’s summer season.
Threes Productions has created the original soundtrack for the exhibition ‘L’Ecologia Sociale, in pratica’
The soundtrack includes a mix of recordings designed to encourage visitors to immerse themselves in the exhibition, an additional sensory support to the physical setting of the exhibition project.
The selection of tracks and authors brings together some of the artistic figures with which Terraforma and Threes have collaborated over the years.
The exhibition can be visited until 16 December at the Circolo del Design.
All info is on their website.
As part of Sere FAI d’estate, Villa e Collezione Panza proposes Ars Sonora, a cycle of three concerts aimed at experimenting with contemporary sounds in dialogue with the poetics of the villa and the collection, and with Giuseppe Panza di Biumo’s research strongly inspired by 20th-century American minimalism.
As Threes, we curated the evening of 7 July at Villa Panza with the acousmatic sound and ghostly melodies of Bellows, the musical duo formed by Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti, and artist and researcher Francesca Heart.
Una Boccata d’Arte, the widespread contemporary art project returns from 22nd June to 29th September 2024. 20 villages across Italy, one for each region, host 20 projects produced by 20 Italian and international artists after a period of residence in contact with the local area and communities.
A project by Fondazione Elpis in collaboration with Galleria Continua and with the participation of Threes Productions.
As Threes, we will curate projects in the following locations:
Gioia Dei Marsi (AQ), Abruzzo, featuring an art intervention by Agostino Quaranta coordinated by Andrea Croce. Bassiano (LT), Lazio, featuring an art intervention by Elena Rivoltini coordinated by Irene Angelica.
Guardialfiera (CB), Molise, featuring an art intervention by Beatriz de Rijke coordinated by Michele Tiberio.
Terraforma Exo is a new cultural manifestation for a new ecology of sound produced by Threes Productions, whose first edition will take place on June 15th and 16th in Milan’s Parco Sempione.
Conceived as a curatorial intervention expanding beyond enclosed venues to explore new geographies, Terraforma Exo confronts the challenges of navigating contemporary cultural landscapes by facilitating moments of deep introspection and critical thinking.
Nuit des Cabanes is the summer event taking place in the gardens of Villa Medici in Rome.
As Threes, we presented Laurel Halo performing ‘Atlas’ with Leila Bordreuil, Low Jack DJ set and soundscapes curated by Latency on Saturday, June 8th.
WINDOWS TO LOOK IN is a project by artist Lorenzo Senni, one of the winners of the 12th edition of Italian Council (2023), the prestigious international program of the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage that promotes Italian art in the world.
After premiering at Fundação de Serralves in Porto and MUNCH in Oslo, WINDOWS TO LOOK IN will be shown at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris along with a lecture and concert by Lorenzo Senni on June 6.
Lorenzo Senni offers the Bourse de Commerce to trace the creation of his work through audio and written documents and a documentary by Australian filmmaker Courtney Herrenberg. The film shows in particular Lorenzo Senni’s decisive encounter with American photographer John Divola, whose series of photographs Dead Mirrors (1970) was an important source of inspiration for WINDOWS TO LOOK IN.
Marta De Pascalis is an Italian artist and sound designer. Her works employ analog synthesis and tape loops, incorporating free playing into steady, repetitive patterns.
At Chiesa Rossa, she will perform ‘Sky Flesh’, an album composed by using only the hefty Yamaha CS-60, the little sister of the CS-80 that Vangelis used to make the iconic ‘Blade Runner’.
This initiative marks the 3rd collaboration between Threes and Fondazione Prada, which, since 2017, have organised a series of musical projects in the Church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa.
OHT tackles, for the first time, a classic of Western literature; Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus.
A collaboration between Threes Productions and Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa.
Produced by OHT
The renowned Terraforma stage, envisioned by Space Caviar in 2022, is set to grace two breathtaking venues in Florence with Disconnect and in Rome with Cieloterra.
Throughout its existence, the stage has been a haven for a myriad of artists, spanning from avant-garde experimentalists to those delivering the most infectious grooves.
The Vaia stage is hosting, once again, incredible artists and DJs including Djrum, Juliana Huxtable, Piezo, Herva and Abo Abo, Aleksi Perälä, upsammy and Cosimo Damiano.
Kuboraum and Terraforma are back in Venice on April 18th and 19th to co-curate a two-day immersive festival experience bridging between art and music.
‘WE TRAVEL TO KNOW OUR OWN GEOGRAPHY’ will take place in partnership with Combo during the pre-opening weekend of the 60th Venice Art Biennale, as a continuum of the 2022 festival and following the launch of Kuboraum Editions.
We’re excited to present ‘Nightclubbing’ in collaboration with Dr Martens.
Set to unfold on April 5th in Bologna and April 13th in Turin, Nightclubbing celebrates the “club” as an essential cultural space for artistic and social expression, riding an unexplored line between the dancefloor and the avant-garde. Inspired by seminal spaces of the late 90s and the early 2000s, Nightclubbing conceives aesthetics and approaches beyond the conventional.
Suites is an intimate yet collective dimension taking place once a month in the evocative setting of Combo’s dehor. Program includes live performances from Canva6, Soft Cou, Martyna Basta, Sofie Birch and Ciro Vitiello
Basement is a new experimental space for young artists dealing with sound and artistic practices, produced and hosted by Fondazione Elpis and curated by Threes. The first installment will be the site-specific installation by VISIO titled “Fools Circle 9wys”. An audio/video project which forms an integral part of a research developed by VISIO and Rustan Söderling. The project is realized in the context of a residency supported by SHAPE+, a platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art co-founded by the European Union.
Threes and Fondazione Prada present the performance of FUJI|||||||||||TA, for the sixth concert at the Church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa. FUJI|||||||||||TA’s sound art and music draw inspiration from various natural phenomena, reflecting his deep fascination with exploring sounds and noises never heard before. In 2009 the Japanese composer handcrafted an original instrument: an eleven-pipe organ without a traditional keyboard. He conceived this unique instrument solely through his imagination, without any specialized knowledge, with the intent of creating a soundscape rather than a conventional musical instrument.
Suites is the new music review curated by Threes in collaboration with Combo. The idea behind the project is to bring the young talents of the experimental electroacoustic scene to the city, and to create an intimate listening dimension.
The public program of “La Terra delle Sirene” is the educational project conceived for Fondazione Donnaregina by Villa Lontana Records and Terraforma taking place at Madre in Naples. The proposed workshops are addressed from time to time to adults and children and develop content and interactive investigations from the discipline of ethnomusicology, solicited by artists such as Walter Maioli, Francesca Heart, Sara Persico, BB (Alessandro Bava and Fabrizio Ballabio), Modular on the Spot Naples (MOTSNA), Babau.
Nextones, the international festival dedicated to the most radical experimentation in the field of audiovisual art and electronic music took place in Oira (VB) from July 20 to July 23. Multimedia and site-specific performances, live audio-video and DJ sets, workshops and outdoor activities to explore and discover the extraordinary surrounding area, in a symbiotic contact with Nature, are at the heart of the Nextones programming.
Il Pianeta Redenta is a project conceived by Terraforma as part of Festival dei Due Mondi that aims to reinterpret the gardens of Villa Redenta in Spoleto through a series of visual, installation, and performance interventions.
On Tuesday 27 June, on the occasion of Nuit Des Cabanes at Villa Medici in Rome, Threes invited the French record label Latency to co-curate their tenth anniversary showcase. The evening hosted the Iranian percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, the contemporary classical concert by TLF Trio and the DJ set by OK Williams. To crown the project, a series of original productions by HTRK, Trawangsawelas and Damsel Elisium provided the soundscape to a portion of the garden of Villa Medici.
“Sirenland” is a site-specific project by BB and Terraforma in collaboration with Villa Lontana Records on pristine sounds of bygone eras that give rise to new acoustic spaces and times. The stage draws inspiration from Ieranto’s mythological and industrial past by proposing a reverse groove exedra made of fiberglass while musician Walter Maioli performed in close dialogue with the architectural structure of the bay, evoking its mythological past and bringing forth a new musical/archaeoacoustic archaeology of the place. “Sirenland” is part of the activities of Spaziale. Each one belongs to all the other Italian Pavilion of the 18th. International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia curated by Fosbury Architecture.
The 2023 program gets inspiration from Organic Music Societies, spotlighting Don and Moki Cherry’s visionary and collaborative experiments in the art of living. In this regard, Terraforma is inviting Blank Forms, who recently published a volume exploring Don and Moki’s work, as a co-organiser for the matinée lectures and concerts. Some of the artists in the music program included: Actress, Nkisi, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Hudson Mohawke and many more.
Threes Productions and Fondazione Marcelo Burlon present Tranceparenti. Kicked off in 2016 as part of the requalification project of the Bagni Misteriosi pool in Milan, Tranceparenti is a multidisciplinary format devised and curated by Threes, which sees the intermix of site-specific concerts, visual arts, publishing, and performance. The project acts as a one-day festival, bringing together a plural and diverse line-up, in one of the most iconic spaces of Milan’s urban landscape. In partnership with Fondazione Burlon, the next edition of Tranceparenti continues to break the boundaries of the expected, in the unique setting of the open-air cultural space.
On the occasion of the second Roman edition of Il Pianeta XL, Terraforma occupied the spaces of the Macro Museum in Rome, transforming them into a temporary club. The evening hosted a series of live shows, DJ sets, installations and talks for PAN’s 15th anniversary with Bill Kouligas, Crystallmess, Heith, Honour, Katja Novitskova, Low Jack x Le Diouck.
Set Up is a project in collaboration with Palazzo Grassi in Venice. On Friday 3 and Saturday 4 February, 2023 two nights of music and performing art will invade the rooms of Punta della Dogana for an event in continuous flow, where performers and public become one with the empty museum spaces, through dance, live, dj-sets and original performances. For the occasion, Terraforma invites Nkisi, Carmen Villain and Toulouse Low Trax.
In recent years, Il Pianeta has transformed into a multifaceted project that explores new territories to bring new horizons through a series of installations and performative interventions. On January 19, Il Pianeta becomes La Planète Comme Festival: a site-specific event at the Bourse de Commerce. Opening the evening, percussionist Enrico Malatesta plays “Occam Ocean Occam XXVI”, the exceptional project born from the collaboration with Eliane Radigue. Following, the debut concert of the two brothers Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, both multidisciplinary artists and musicians belonging to the Pakajaqi nation of the Aymara people. To close, a long-time friend and enthusiast: DJ Marcelle, also known as “Another Nice Mess”, who brings her three turntables to Paris.
It’s been 10 years! The most important part of celebrating an anniversary is thanking the people who made it possible: a huge thank you to our community, for supporting Threes over so many years.
Threes was born in 2012 as the founder of Terraforma, to explore through cultural paradigms and to inspire an ecological vision, in the belief that art and culture can generate virtuous circles of inclusion and environmental awareness. Over the years, Threes has developed its never-ending drive towards innovation, evolving into a multidisciplinary platform ranging from event production and curatorship, to the publishing of music and editorial content.
Threes commissioned a new logo and identity Jakub Samek, Czech type designer and member of the Maxitype platform.
On December 15th, Threes and MMT, in collaboration with Fondazione Prada, presents Maria W Horn performing “Dies Irae” at Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa. The name and thematic focus of the piece is inspired by the latin poem “Dies Irae,” a vision of doomsday, divine salvation, and eternal flames, on which Maria W. Horn builds a pièce for women’s vocal quartet-which on this occasion will consist of four local voices-and electronics. The event is supported by Il Ministero dei Beni Culturali and Il Comune di Milano as part of Milano è Viva, “Antico futuro: universo e fantascienza.”
The third edition of Il Pianeta Milano included a billboard campaign around the city of Milan commissioned to Jeremy Deller, which was also launched at Assab One on 6 October 2022. During the same evening Terraforma also presented Perila’s live concert, which was recorded and put on the QR code on Jeremy Deller’s poster around the city. The program also featured two soundwalks, “Playground,” led and curated by Standards and John Cage’s “Landscape: a series of talks and concerts dedicated to the life of John Cage” curated by MMT Creative Lab. Supported by Fondazione Cariplo, Il Comune di Milano, Shape+ and Creative Europe. Produced by MMT, Threes, Standards, Studio Nicama.
Simposio—a new space of research investigating contemporary urgencies through the lenses of art and ecology—returned for its second edition at Assab One. Featuring a workshop by Slipmode, a screening by Institute of Queer Ecology, a talk and live set by Chris Korda, and live concert by Robert Lippok.
Performative 02 was the second edition of the international festival focused on performative arts and music realised by MAXXI L’Aquila. For the occasion, Threes Productions presented two musical performances in dialogue with the territory of L’Aquila as well as the spaces of MAXXI L’Aquila: Andrea Belfi, the composer and drummer that blends acoustic rhythms to electronic sounds, and Dame Area, the punk duo well known for their unique style so called “Tribal Wave.”
The photographer of this edition of Nextones Festival was Giovanna Silva (Milan, 1980) who, in the two years preceding the festival, shot the surrounding nature of the Oira Valley. The first four days of the festival were articulated in the spaces of Treno dei Bimbi, Orridi di Uriezzo, Villa Caselli, and the Agaro Dam through performances, workshops and walks curated by Ariella Vidach’s Common Cloud, Aerocene, Babau, foodculture days, Rayon Vert, Deep Listening, Rrose, Arpabong, and Mimmo Sparacio. Over the weekend, Tones Teatro Natura’s quarry then welcomed live performances and DJ sets including that of Squarepusher, Electric Indigo, Front De Cadeaux, Marina Herlop, Sky H1 + Mika Oki, Seventh Extinction, and Khalab.
After two years of covering and spirling new orbits, Terraforma landed again on the dusty soil of Villa Arconati, releasing rhythm and frequencies. The seventh edition of the experimental and sustainable music festival focused on its most radical and original essence: the experience of being together through music and dance. The lineup featured Amnesia Scanner, Autechre, Voices From The Lake, Common People, Valentina Magaletti, Paquita Gordon, Crystallmess, DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess, DJ Nigga Fox, DJ Red, Donato Dozzy, Higher Intelligence Agency, Lafawndah, Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, MC Yallah & DEBMASTER, MOIN, NR/MA, Piezo, PLO Man, Sofie Birch, Teto Preto, Aaron Dunkies, and DJ FATi.
For the third edition of Una Boccata d’Arte—the contemporary art project spread across twenty Italian villages, curated and realized by the Elpis Foundation and Galleria Continua for which Threes Productions curates the sound installations each year—sound art interventions were commissioned to Riccardo Benassi in Pesariis in Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Eva Marisaldi in San Costanzo in the Marche; and Hanne Lippard in Grottole in Basilicata.
The third issue of the Terraforma Journal explores the generative possibilities of the synthetic process through a multifaceted research line that connects sound, music, and the adjacent methods of sound generation in audio electronics to fields such as artificial intelligence, ecology, language, logic, and everything in between.
Threes, in collaboration with FAI – Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano, presented the live premiere of Heith’s new record –X, Wheel at Palazzina Appiani in Milan, together with his band composed by percussionist Jacopo Battaglia and guitarist Leonardo Rubboli. The performance was realized in partnership with Marsèll and supported by SHAPE Platform & Creative Europe.
LOVOTIC, curated by Threes Productions involving Sound Collective, was the inaugurational exhibition of the new space FOROF, in Rome. An immerseive sound installation in dialogue with the excavations of the Basilica Ulpia, hosting the contributions of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lyra Pramuk, AtomTM, Paul B. Preciado, and Willem Dafoe. Technology has shaped almost every facet of human life. Lovotic explored the entanglement of the human and the machine, starting from the core of human life, namely sexuality, hence opening a space for a hermeneutics of love in the post-human era.
Titled “SUB,” the second issue of the Terraforma Journal stretches the possibilities of the prefix out of the purely lexical landscape to assume unexpected connotations through in-depth features, interviews, special portfolios, essays, and more. The issue features Suzanne Ciani, Black Med, RP Boo, Drexciya, Merzbow, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Arpanet, Ocean Space, and many others to explore the subject.
A new iteration of the Chiesa Rossa concert series with a special solo organ performance by Ellen Arkbro, the Swedish avant-garde composer and sound artist. Ellen Arkbro’s work includes long duration compositions for ensembles as well as electronic sound environments in the form of installations and live-performances, employing both traditional acoustic instruments as well as digital algorithmic sound synthesis. At Chiesa Rossa, she performed her latest work, a sound meant to be experienced as one solitary object, periodically shifting from without, while remaining unchangingly solid within.
On the occasion of the exhibition “Breath Ghosts Blind” by Maurizio Cattelan in 2021, Pirelli HangarBicocca in collaboration with Threes Productions presented “Fragile,” a series of musical moments accompanied the exhibition project with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Ensemble Strumentale e Vocale la Barocca and baritone Christian Senn, conducted by Ruben Jais.
A 24-hour venture taking over different spaces of Macro Museum in Rome. An exploration of new topographies recalling the core elements of Terraforma and the analysis made by Ettore Sottsass in his visionary project featuring a series of performances, talks, video-installation, and workshops with artists such as Jeremy Deller, Terre Thaemlitz, Paquita Gordon, and Vipra Sativa.
The 2021 edition of Il Pianeta Milan aimed to collect online and offline performative interventions that question the relationship between music, art and the urban dimension; with artwork and sound interventions by Formafantasma, Rebecca Salvadori, Giulio Scalisi, and Grand River featured on a billboard campaign across the city. The event was supported by Fondazione Cariplo, Il Comune di Milano, SHAPE Platform & Creative Europe and Spazio Maiocchi. Produced by MMT Creative Lab and Threes.
On occasion of Contact(less), the first edition of Performative 01—the first performance art, dance, theatre and music international festival realised by MAXXI L’Aquila—Threes presented two special instrumental performances: a live improvisation by experimental drummer and percussionist Valentina Magaletti and SSIEGE live band’s debut.
A timeless release presented in collaboration with Raster Media with a debut at Villa Arconati in July 2021. “Il Quadro di Troisi” is a project by Andrea Noce (Eva Geist) and Donato Scaramuzzi (Donato Dozzy). The record is a colorful ode of an Italian scented vision, overflowing with details and profound intensity. The contemporary world condition, the pandemic in Italy and around the world make “Il Quadro di Troisi” as a unique and right-on-time release.
Terraforma Journal is a new editorial project by Terraforma. A biannual publication exploring the intersection of sound, art, ecology, and contemporary culture at large. The issue #1 focuses on the expanded notion of the festival—intended as a collective, multilateral, interconnected manifestation of dynamicity. The theme unfolds through a multiplicity of layers to acquire new and unexpected definitions featuring Terre Thaemlitz, Fabio Sargentini, Shiraz Arts Festival, Nyege Nyege Festival, Alessandro Bava, 2050+, and many more.
During the pandemic hiatus, Terraforma pursued its process of terraforming in the fields of cultural and ecological investigation through a number of new formats and projects. Here’s where Simposio developed: a dialogue and investigation of the contemporary through the lens of ecology and artistic practices. The first edition featured a yoga class with Lavinia, a talk by Agricola Moderna, a panel by Space Caviar, and performances by Riccardo La Foresta and Jessika Khazrik.
Una Boccata d’Arte is a contemporary art project, spread throughout Italy, by Fondazione Elpis in collaboration with Galleria Continua, for which Threes curates the sound installations. Selected artists of the second edition included: Camille Norment in Santa Gertrude in Trentino Alto Adige, Francesco Cavaliere in Vallo di Nera in Umbria, and the Polisonum duo in Gesualdo in Campania.
“Protocolli di Terraformazione” was a one-week masterclass that took place within the educational program of the Heritage Innovation Masters run by Abadir Academy. With lectures, presentations, and workshops organized by the Threes’ team, Space Caviar, Luca Lo Pinto, and many others.
“Supercatastrofe” is the third edition of “God is Green,” a festival dedicated to sustainability and the future developed by Manifattura Tabacchi. Threes Productions’ contribution took place in the form of the sound collage “SPOKEN RIFTS,” which intertwined Threes’ research around experimental music and sustainability with insights on the contemporary issues connected to the Anthropocene.
A new project by Terraforma, born in 2020, which draws its inspiration and name from the iconic series by Ettore Sottsass from 1972. The launching event presented the work of Alessandro Bava, Natália Trejbalová, TCF, and Piezo, who were invited to re-interpret the homonymous project by Ettore Sottsass through a series of artworks and a soundscape.
An immersive showcase of the Platform for Innovative Music and Audiovisual Art from Europe of which Terraforma is part since 2020, featuring Oli XL and Emilie Palmendus, Tadleeh, Rina Treanor, Jay Glass Dubs, and Upsammy.
Shelter is the project of Primitive Art (Matteo Pit and Jim C. Nedd), which on this occasion hosted within it the first chapter of shared research: a 40-minute musical performance by Primitive Art that narrated, through sound and light, that space of undefined boundaries in its different roles.
Before & After was a special project born from the will to transform a difficult time, the pandemic years, into an opportunity for change and development. Cava Roncino hosted a laboratory-residency of a temporary micro community of artists, creatives, professionals, and technicians, fostering reflection on the meaning of sociality and the creation of a new cultural architecture: the Theatre for the Future.
Una Boccata d’Arte is a contemporary art project, spread throughout Italy, realized by the Elpis Foundation in collaboration with Galleria Continua, for which Threes Productions curates the sound installations. Among the artists selected for the first edition are: Marta De Pascalis in the magnificent Basilica of San Sebastiano in Ferla, Sicily, with Filippo Vogliazzo and Matteo Nasini in the ruins of Soverato Antica in Catanzaro, Calabria.
Supported by Slam Jam, Threes and Artifact presented “Aesthesis” the album of Shapednoise. The live performance took place alongside the photography exhibition by Leonardo Scotti, the video installation of Pedro Maia, and the opening DJ set by Heith.
An exhibition curated by Threes at Hyphen Projects, with works by Lorenzo Senni, Stephen G. Rhodes, Emanuele Marcuccio, Sylvano Bussotti, and a special performance by Michael Vorfeld. Inspired by Dick Higgins’ restoration of the term ‘Intermedia,’ whose nature is that of a game where the audience is invited to design its own architectural space by using different media as tools. A painting, a live performance, a laser installation, a sculpture, and a score—these are the elements chosen to represent Threes’ imagery.
The third chapter in the ethereal Chiesa Rossa featured a three-fold program having as its core “Tabula Rasa” by the composer of sacred minimalist music Arvo Pärt on the Acusmonium Audior, a unique handmade sound diffusion system consisting of 54 speakers and 44 amplifiers.
At the second Art Encounters event, Threes presented David Monacchi with the project “Fragments of Extinction.” The project focuses on the study of the sound biodiversity of endangered ecosystems through the recording of three-dimensional “acoustic portraits” in different geographical areas. The event was part of the exhibition dedicated to contemporary art open to the city of Milan on the theme of sustainability at the Volvo Studio.
Launch event of Terraforma 2019 and “THE ALPHABET” by Nathalie Du Pasquier. Based in Milan since 1979, Nathalie has worked as a designer and was a founder member of Memphis. She designed numerous “decorated surfaces”: textiles, carpets, plastic laminates, and some furniture and objects. In 1987, painting became her main activity.
Realized on the occasion of Linecheck in Milan, “Sounds from Canada” was an immersion into Canadian realms with INTe*ra -the A/V live project by Acting Press’ members PLO Man, All Rest No People and C3Deee- the founder of Doo DJ Spence and LNS, an affiliate of Dj Sotofett’s Wania.
Positive Feedback was a two-fold event curated by Lorenzo Senni and supported by Warp Records and Presto!? Records. The first half of the night developed between “The Seven Heavenly Palaces” by Anselm Kiefer, a site-specific performance by Florian Hecker, and an anticipated live concert by Curtis Roads, the granular synthesis pioneer behind the seminal “Point Line Cloud” collection, re-issued on Presto!? for this occasion. The event continued at Ex Cinema Aramis / Striptease with Donato Dozzy, Ewa Justka, and Tasho Ishi.
In 2019, Threes took over the art direction of Nextones, the international music festival of electronic music and visual arts born in 2014 in the historic quarries of marble and granite extraction between the shores of Lake Maggiore and Val D’Ossola. Photography is the chosen language to represent the singularity of the Quarry, this time, commissioned to the photographer Delfino Sisto Legnani in collaboration with Studio Temp.
In collaboration with #TodayAtApple, Threes presented “A Vision Of Sound,” a site-specific event for Foster + Partners’ amphitheater at Apple Piazza Liberty. At sunset: the Italian premiere of “Isa”—Croatian Amor’s latest release on Posh Isolation—and “Futuro,” a performance by Not Waving together with iconic creative director Sean Rogg.
The sixth edition’s creativity and poster featured the Alphabet of Nathalie Du Pasquier and hosted Bambounou, Buttechno, Caterina Barbieri, Daniel Higgs, DJ Stingray, Donato Dozzy, Efdemin & Marco Shuttle, Izabel, Juliana Huxtable, Kelman Duran, Laurie Anderson, Marylou, Mica Levi (DJ), Monolake, Paquita Gordon, Ramzi, Renick Bell, RP Boo, Sir Richard Bishop, Sote Stargate, STILL, Vladimir Ivkovic, Walter Prati & Ricciarda Belgiojoso.
As part of the Parco delle Culture event, Threes presented the iconic mbira dzavadzimu player and enduring activist in African music, Stella Chiweshe, and Simone Bertuzzi as Palm Wine on the stage of Teatro Continuo di Burri.
Threes presented Upperground Orchestra at Immersione Libera, the contemporary art exhibition conceived by Marina Nissim and curated by Giovanni Paolin in collaboration with Galleria Continua, Associazione Pier Lombardo, Teatro Franco Parenti, and Parenti District Art & Design.
Terraforma Festival showcase at Ping Pong 129 in Hong Kong with Marco Shuttle. Berlin-based born in Treviso, Italy, Marco Shuttle has been involved in the underground club scene since he was 15, as a promoter and later as a DJ.
In January 2019, Threes returned to the hallowed aisles of Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa, this time to present a legendary artist for whom the association had already shown special fondness: Charlemagne Palestine. For the occasion, the artist did not fail to adorn the church organ with colorful rags, flanked by a handful of stuffed animals, his performance companions since the glorious 1970s.
A club night in collaboration with Buka, and supported by Carhartt WIP, presented Jerusalem in My Heart, the audio-visual project created in 2005 by musician and composer Rawan Ghazi Moumneh, and Ron Morelli, one of the greatest influencers in the contemporary electronic music scene. The night hosted two other protagonists: Paquita Gordon and Joseph Tagliabue.
Presented by Carhartt WIP and Curated by Threes Productions, the event PAN 10 Years Showcase hosted live performances and installations by Amnesia Scanner, Pan Daijing, Eartheater, TCF, Jenna Sutela, and Harm van den Dorpel.
“Tranceparenti” is a project resulting from the collaboration between Teatro Franco Parenti and Threes. A concert on water, designed specifically for the floating platform on the occasion of the inauguration of Bagni Misteriosi in 2018 with Lanark Artefax.
Threes and Carhartt Work In Progress presented Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force on Burri’s Teatro Continuo in Parco Sempione, Milan. Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force is the group formed by, Mark Ernestus, pioneer of German dub techno, and Senegalese sabar musicians with trance-inducing polyrhythms.
Emanuele Marcuccio was the artist behind the propulsive artwork of Terraforma 2018, designed by 2015’s vision. Taking inspiration from slags of modern industrial production, repetition and Terraforma itself, his work was commissioned to enlighten the festival’s interstellar perspective. The musical program featured Batu, Byetone, Caterina Barbiere’s sound installation, Daniele De Santis, Donato Dozzy, DON’T DJ, Gábor Lázár, Imaginary Softwoods, Jeff Mills, Lanark Artefax, Marco Shuttle, Mino Luchena, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Konrad Sprenger, Nkisi, Paquita Gordon, Plaid & Felix’s Machines, PLO Man, Powder, Rabih Beaini, Valentino Mora, VIPRA, and Vladimir Ivkovic.
For Manifesta 12 in Palermo—the European Nomadic Biennial held every two years in a different city on the continent—Threes Productions curated the program for the opening event and its after party presenting Sahel Opera, STILL, Palm Wine, and Primitive Art.
FOG inaugurated the collaboration between Triennale Teatro dell’Arte and Threes presenting Anna Von Hausswolff, an innovative organization of under-40s with an unconventional outlook that focused on issues of cultural sustainability between music, art, and the environment.
TROUBLE MAKERS was the opening event of the exhibition “Trouble Making – Who’s Making the City?,” an investigation into the mass phenomena and virtual networks that are changing our minds and our cities curated by Raumplan at BASE in Milan for Milan Design Week. For the occasion Threes Productions presented Gabber Eleganza’s “The Hakke Show.”
Threes Productions presented the fifth edition of Terraforma Festival with two works by Emanuele Marcuccio: “Untitled TF” and the video “Once announced, the era of constructivism has broken out. We live among non-modern people” in the spaces of Teatro Arsenale in Milan.
A productions curated by Threes and Presto!? Records on the occasion of Milano Music Week. The event consisted of a concert in three acts by the Milanese enduring music super group CB21, composed of Lorenzo Senni, Simone Trabucchi, Massimiliano Bomba, Emanuele Marcuccio, Jim C. Nedd, and Matteo Pit. DOOR21 took place in the intimate setting of Teatro Verdi, in the heart of Milan’s Isola district since 1913.
On the occasion of the opening of the new aisle of the Shit Museum dedicated to the Dung Beetle and two works by Gianfranco Baruchello and Claudio Parmiggiani, Threes Productions presented the site-specific concert-installation by Charlemagne Palestine.
Preview of ‘I’ the album of STILL released on PAN and performed on the stage of Burri’s Teatro Continuo in collaboration with Carhartt WIP, La Triennale, PAN, Still. Tied together by a polyphony of voices animated by a shared gospel, “I” weaves iconic tropes and dancehall rhythms into a contemporary perspective. The concert featured four singers on stage—Devon Miles (of Devon and Jah Brothers), Keidino, Elinor, and Freweini—and a surrounding sound system designed specifically for the space.
The fourth edition of Terraforma Festival hosted Andrew Weatherall, Arpanet, Aurora Halal, Donato Dozzy, Dreesvn, Gas, John Swing Feat. David Soleil-Mon, Julia Kent, Laraaji, L.U.C.A., Mala, N.M.O., Objekt, Paquita Gordon & Ece Duzgit, Kafr, Rashad Becker, Rawmance, Ron Morelli, Stine Janvin, Suzanne Ciani, and Tropic Sound System. The preview happened at Gluck50.
The aisles of the Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa in Milan are home to “Untitled,” the site-specific work by American minimalist artist Dan Flavin specifically conceived in 1996 for the renovation of the Church and realized by Fondazione Prada in collaboration with Dia Center for the Arts di New York and Dan Flavin Estate. In this beautiful setting, William Basinkski played the organ of the Church live.
In 2017, Threes and Carhartt Work In Progress brought to Italy, for the first time, the iconic Killasan Sound System, centerpiece of the Berlin based Wax Treatment legendary events, in partnership with Ex Dogana in Rome and BASE in Milan. The Killasan Sound System is one of the touchstones to date of a different way of experimenting reggae music and dancehall.
The third edition of Terraforma Festival hosted Charlemagne Palestine, Rabih Beaini & Vincent Moon, Biosphere, Helena Hauff, Donato Dozzy, Claudio Fabrianesi, Francesco Cavaliere, Healing Force Project, Dynamo Dreesen, Flanger, Sensate Focus, Lee Gamble, AtomTM & Tobias, Tropic Disco Sound System, STILL, Beatrice Dillon, Adrian Sherwood, Paquita Gordon, and Primitive Art.
“Tranceparenti” is a project by Teatro Franco Parenti in collaboration with Threes Productions, conceived for the reopening of spaces of Piscine Caimi, now named Bagni Misteriosi, with a view to integrating different expressive languages to recompose memory and innovation, classical instruments and new musical research in a harmonious whole. On this occasion, a forty-piece orchestra reinterpreted, on the floating stage, the music of Lorenzo Senni arranged by Francesco Fantini.
Inside the permanent exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan where Anselm Kiefer’s spectacular work “I Sette Palazzi Celesti” is located, Terraforma presented Boredoms live, a visionary Japanese group. An Italian exclusive concert, the only preview of the festival of 2016.
The second edition of Terraforma hosted Hamid Drake, Charles Cohen, Bochum Welt, Convextion, Marco Shuttle, Gea Brown, Maurizio Abate, Rawmance, Valerio Tricoli presented by S/V/N/, Rabih Beaini, Senyawa, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Robert Lippok, Donato Dozzy & Nuel, and Keith Fullerton.
While waiting for Terraforma 2015’s three immersive days, five site-specific musical events marked the atmosphere of the festival:
Terraforming “Paradoxes” Orthographe and Lorenzo Senni at Planetario Civico Ulrico Hoepli in Milan;
Terraforming with DJ Stingray at Assab One in Milan;
Terraforming with Gianluca Petrella at Villa Tasca in Palermo;
Terraforming with Mike Cooper at Acquario Civico in Milan;
Terraforming with Gigi Masin at Centrale Montemartini in Rome.
First edition of TERRAFORMA, experimental and sustainable music festival. The lineup featured: Voices From The Lake, Morphosis, Chris Madak aka Bee Mask, Tommaso Cappellato, Dalhous presented by S/V/N/, Thomas Fehlmann, Burnt Friedman, Millie & Andrea, Heatsick, Ghèdalia Tazartès, Pierre Bastien, Rawmance, Norberto Lobo, Pasquale Mirra, Deadbeat e Tikiman, James Blackshaw, Volcov, CB21, Native, Sisterpatti aka Paquita Gordon, and Daniele D’Andrea.
On the occasion of exhibition “Playground”, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Maria Alicata, at Casa delle Armi in Rome, Threes presented Terraforma, with a live performance of ambient music between guitars and synthesizers with Commodity Place and a DJ set by Rawmance.
In 2014, Threes in collaboration with O’ presented “Terraforming Vol.1,” the first of three encounters between music, art, and nature that formed the preview of the first edition of Terraforma. The event opened with the site-specific project “Finis Terrae” by Ignazio Mortellaro, followed by the live electronic music performance by TM404, a project by Swedish Andreas Tilliander.
Techno Portraits was a series of three events exploring the boundaries and perceptions of electronic music through lectures, live performances, and DJ sets. Temporarily extracting electronic music from the classic club context, the mission was to change its approach and usual point of view, leading the spectator to a different and more conscious understanding and listening.
Techno Portraits vol.1 w/ Rabih Beani, Upperground Orchestra
Techno Portraits vol.2 w/ Paul Randolph & Isoul8
Techno Portraits vol.3 w/ Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman
