The sixth edition of Terraforma, the international festival of music, experimentation and environmental sustainability, will take place from the 5th to 7th July in the woods of Villa Arconati-FAR in Bollate, Milan, and is focused this year on the theme of language.
The terraforming process, which has always
focused on electronic music as an art form mainly defined by its absence of text, starts anew with a different approach. The language of Terraforma manifests itself this year both as a means and as an element of exploration. Words, images, voices, and codes, as well as sounds, are reimagined to create a direct and constantly evolving conversation with the global community that every summer, since 2014, takes place at
Villa Arconati.
The most awaited show of Terraforma 2019, is entrusted to the universal language of
Laurie Anderson, visual artist, composer, avant-garde musician, director, urban poet, feminist, wife of the late Lou Reed. Anderson, a living expression of interdisciplinary art, presents for the first time in Italy The Language of the Future, an exciting and unpredictable performance that mixes narration (spoken word), music (electric violin and digital orchestra) and projection of interactive videos.
An artist who can translate contemporary film language into music is the British singer-songwriter and composer Mica Levi, also known as
Micachu. Amount notable soundtracks she’s written and recorded, including Under the Skin (2013) with Scarlett Johansson, Jackie (2016) and Monos (2019), This humble, generous and substantial producer always manages to explore unexpected places and manipulate every composition, be it pop, electronic or orchestral, depriving it of elitism.
The inaugural performance of Terraforma, after the success of the previous edition of the festival with its sound installation in a temporary planetarium, is the live performance of the acclaimed electroacoustic producer and composer
Caterina Barbieri, returning to Italy from Berlin. Her compositions are long analog excursions that explore topics related to artificial intelligence, time and space, giving new meaning to the minimalist language.
With his last hard as granite set, which rocked the walls of the Assab One in Milan for the Terraforma preview in 2015, DJ Stingray is ready once again to convey the industrial language in the open, in the same context masterfully "terraformed" by Jeff Mills last year.
Terraforma's music speaks to a public that is more and more attentive to the environment, to the language of nature, which takes the form of a process of enhancement, reclamation and redevelopment of the Villa Arconati wood. Among the sustainability projects, the festival has completed
a labyrinth of hedges, built on the original model designed by Marc'Antonio Dal Re in 1743. For its manifestation, more than 500 specimens of long hornbeam were planted in five concentric circles leading to the center. As in the previous three editions, this year's labyrinth hosts artistic performances that exploit sound spatialization techniques.
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