The “THEATRONIC” mixed performing arts festival promises to be a unique and immersive experience, where the boundary between theatre and electronic music dissolves into an explosion of creativity and innovation. The event’s opening will highlight the importance of this artistic fusion, creating a vibrant and stimulating atmosphere for the audience. On the opening night, the stage will come alive with a series of live concerts, showcasing emerging talents and established artists – both national and international – on a sonic journey spanning various genres and styles. Among the most eagerly anticipated acts is a performance by the renowned British DJ ACTRESS, known for her bold and experimental approach to electronic music. Her performance promises to transport the audience into a cutting-edge soundscape, blending immersive rhythms and enchanting melodies. In addition to concerts and DJ sets, “THEATRONIC” will also feature experimental live performances, in which performers will interact with the music in novel and surprising ways. These moments of live performance will invite the audience to reflect on the synergy between different art forms, creating a fascinating dialogue between sound, movement and storytelling. In short, “THEATRONIC”, with its pulsating atmosphere, presents itself as a festival that brings together artists from different disciplines to create an immersive and innovative experience, inviting the audience to experience art in all its forms.
Line-up
ACTRESS / DJ set
ACTRESS (aka Darren J Cunningham) is a giant of electronic composition, a visionary philosopher-complicator whose explorations have foreshadowed and pioneered many of the major themes in club music since his acclaimed debut on the Splazsh label in 2010. 2024 marks the start of a new chapter with his tenth album, and his first for the avant-garde Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound. Throughout his career, Darren has not only created his own arcane language, brimming with hermetic and interdimensional references to techno and electro, but has also engaged with many of the trends of the last twenty years; often sending out waves and ripples of influence in his wake; from reimagining Stockhausen to collaborating with an AI trained on his own music as early as 2018.
What they say about him:
“Vaunted English electronic producer Actress is a cerebral standard-bearer” Pitchfork
“one of the great poets of club culture” The Guardian
LIAN / DJ set
Luca Mattia D’Antona, known on the music scene by his stage name LIAN, is an actor, director, playwright and DJ/producer originally from Puglia. His journey into electronic music began at the age of 18, when he bought his first Technics 1210 turntables and started a vinyl collection. His early influences – Berlin dark techno and the soundscapes typical of the Northern European electronic scene – remain strong to this day. He graduated in Electronic Music Production from the SAE Institute in Milan in 2018. LIAN is a mysterious and eclectic artist; with him, one cannot speak of musical genres but only of good music and talented composers. His quest for sounds is obsessive, as is his ability to immerse the listener in his world of refined, carefully crafted atmospheres from the very first bars of every set. Break and minimal sounds create constant shifts, sudden rises following deep descents which, whilst maintaining a dark atmosphere, never descend into excessively gloomy tones.
He has performed across Italy and Europe, and in 2024 he won the Tour Music Fest Italia with his project HAMLET, leaving artists, judges and audiences literally speechless.
LIAN is the artistic director of Open Deck and Theatronic, both very recent projects that celebrate all forms of art and music.
LIAN will present his new single “ABYSS”.
MO’ONG / live solo with self-built instruments
“Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi is an experimental composer and instrument maker. Born in Bangkok and raised in Java, he currently lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. His work focuses on decolonial music, seeking to reconnect with and reinterpret the sounds of the “Indonesian” archipelago.
Mo’ong’s work spans various genres and multidisciplinary collaborations, including modern dance, theatre, contemporary puppet theatre, installation art and performance art. In 2015, he launched the Limbah Berbunyi project, composing music using instruments made from found objects and waste materials. He has also initiated the Sound-Making Objects project, pushing the boundaries of unconventional materials in music-making. As part of the experimental duo Raja Kirik with musician/composer Yennu Ariendra, Mo’ong explores the war of narratives during the Dutch occupation of Indonesia. His latest project, Takkak Takkak, a collaboration with Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg), blends experimental sounds and intercultural influences in genre-defying performances. Mo'ong has also contributed as a sound designer and composer to several independent films, further expanding his creative scope.
In this performance, Mo’ong reconfigures the very notion of what constitutes an instrument, a composition and a performance. His works offer a sonic counter-narrative, which resists conventional musical classifications and instead invites the listener into a space where sound is liberated from cultural and musical orthodoxies. In doing so, Mo’ong not only deconstructs the colonised layers of musical knowledge but also reimagines a practice rooted both in his heritage and in an experimental, forward-thinking ethos.
MUFU / live improv
MUFU was founded in 2020 as a collective bringing together a wide variety of artists and musical genres. Every performance by the project is spontaneous and unique. The line-up and chosen soundscapes are constantly evolving, and improvisation is the only rule on stage.
Alex Adilardi (bass, synth), Emanuele Naima (synth, bass) and Giorgio Alfarano (drums, samples) will perform a set predominantly centred on techno with acid and electro influences, in a completely improvised manner and without the use of a metronome, pre-programmed sequences or backing tracks.
SAMUEL MELE trio / live concert
SAMUEL MELE is a musician and composer from Grecìa Salentina, currently completing his degree in Ethnomusicology at the T. Schipa Conservatoire in Lecce. He began studying Middle Eastern musical systems in Crete through the Labyrinth Musical Workshop, where, in February 2024, he carried out a research project that won the Culture Moves Europe call for proposals, promoted by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut, in collaboration with Kelly Thomà, Stelios Petrakis and Evgenia Toli, due for release in June 2025. In January 2025, she was awarded a scholarship by the Lecce Rotary Club for a study and research trip to Crete. Her training has included internationally renowned figures such as Ross Daly, Lamia Yared, Yasamine Shahhosseini, Christos Barbas, Peppe Frana and Taxiarchis Georgulis.
He will perform with Clara Blavet (vocals, flute) and Fabio Moschettini (classical guitar) in “Il Santo Sforzo di capire cos’è l’amore”.
This is the debut album by Samuel Mele, winner of the 2023 “Per Chi Crea” competition, organised by SIAE and the Ministry of Culture, released by Nauna Cantieri Musicali, and produced and arranged by Valerio Daniele. Here, the singer-songwriter style draws on traditional, new folk and world music roots, with the Middle Eastern sounds of the oud and the ney heralding a song form that transcends everyday events to rediscover a connection with the divine, with a love for life and for oneself.
Admission €20–35
Starts 6.00 pm
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