Terraforma Exo returns to Parco Sempione, the city’s largest green oasis. Over two days, the park will be transformed by concerts, performances, installations, meetings, and immersive sound walks, with Triennale Milano at its core. A club night in collaboration with Gatto Verde will ignite the city, welcoming some of the most visionary DJs from the global electronic music scene broadening the conversation beyond the park’s boundaries.
LORENZO SENNI “EUREKA! (Mix Legacy 2011–2025)” TORRE BRANCA
Saturday June 28th and Sunday June 29th
10:30 AM – 2:00 PM / 2:30 PM – 7:30 PM / 8:30 PM – 12:00 AM
Saturday June 28th
11:00 AM – Lecture with Lorenzo Senni “EUREKA! (2011–2025) … A Conceptual Exercise in Bad Taste”
Co-curated with Nuits Sonores as part of TIMES
EUREKA is a curated selection of moments drawn from Lorenzo Senni’s iconic mixes, spanning nearly fifteen years of sonic exploration. These “composed-mixes” functioned as experimental frameworks through which Senni developed his theoretical and aesthetic investigations into Pointillistic Trance and Rave-Voyeurism. By isolating and recombining hundreds of build-ups—primarily sourced from Trance, though not limited to the genre—Senni constructs extended, non-linear progressions that interrogate the structural and affective mechanics of electronic dance music.
FLORIAN HECKER “FAVN” PALAZZINA APPIANI
Saturday June 28th
4:15 PM / 5:30 PM
Saturday June 28th
3:00 PM – Florian Hecker in conversation with Maya B. Kronic
Sunday June 29th
11:00 AM / 12:30 PM / 3:00 PM / 4:15 PM / 5:30 PM
Co-curated with Unsound as part of TIMES
FAVN is an automated performance tracing the blurry boundaries between reality and imagination, sensory perception and hallucination. Evoking notions surrounding late-19th-century psychophysics and the quantification of the senses, in FAVN, we follow Debussy in sonically reincarnating the protagonist of Mallarmé’s1876 poem “L’après-midi d’un faun.”FAVN uses the question ‘What did I hear?’ as a way to interrogate the constructive cognitive processes that intervene in apparently purely sensory, or indeed sensual, experiences.
Lecture by Mark Mushiba, Celina Abba (Forensis) and Marco Ferrari (Studio Folder)
Geographies of Sound: Thinking through Namibian landscapes
Saturday June 28th
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Spazio Voce – Triennale
HEITH, JAMES K, GÜNSELİ YALÇINKAYA present THE TALK [A/V SHOW]
Saturday June 28th
9:30 PM | Giardino Triennale Milano
Commissioned as part of TIMES collaborative project
The Talk is a multi-disciplinary performance, featuring musicians Heith and James K,
artist-researcher Günseli Yalcinkaya and original set design by Andrea Belosi. Presented in the style of a surreal panel talk, the show takes inspiration from the Antikythera mechanism, the world’s first artificial computer, to imagine an atemporal reality where hypnotic soundscapes open up portals into the unknown, and spoken word intervals act as fictioning tools to explore the ways in which narratives, as told through the lens of various technologies, shape our perception of reality.
FORENSIS (FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE) & BILL KOULIGAS present THE DRUM AND THE BIRD
Saturday June 28th
10:30 PM | Giardino Triennale Milano
Based on research co-produced with Forensic Architecture
The Drum and the Bird is a new multi-sensory performance made by Forensis in collaboration with Bill Kouligas. An immersive auditory experience, the work examines the relationship between lost ecologies and colonial exploitation. Growing out of research on Germany’s colonial history in Namibia, originally undertaken by Forensis and its sister agency Forensic Architecture, the work weaves together generative environmental audio, oral testimonies, and spatio-visual modelling, and compels an audience to contemplate the price of colonial amnesia by highlighting voices and sounds that have been silenced or altered as a result of this history. Landscapes are repositories – carrying within them all life’s narratives. Rocks, sediments, flora and fauna have all borne witness to transformations beyond human perception. How has witnessing been encoded within them? What stories do they wish to tell? The audio-visual project, The Drum and the Bird is thus a form of memory work. Each actor/character—sand, water, wind, tree, shark, human – within the Namibian landscape responds to time uniquely. Dub theory provides a framework through which these testimonies may be understood at the threshold of loss.
TERRAFORMA EXO & GATTO VERDE
Saturday June 28th
11:00 PM – 05:00 AM | Teatro Principe
SISTER EFFECT – Djset | 11:00 PM
Her experience as a DJ began in 2007, moving mainly within the underground circuits of electronic music, with a focus on drum and bass, jungle, and dubstep. On the dancefloor, she brings all her experience and research, moving through different BPMs and a variety of musical genres, always seeking a connection that makes the journey feel natural and fluid, with particular attention to the context she is in and the energy transmitted by the people in that precise moment.
MI-EL – Djset | 12:30 AM
A deeply personal selector – with radars for the wacky, the moody and the lowercase – mi-el’s style is a deft balancing act, from sung soundscapes and explorations of her heritage to contemporary bass, electro, and vanguard electronics.Those who’ve caught her live will know the former MOT booker and now NTS resident isapt to blur the thinning line between selector and sound artist, having torn up countlessgreat nights, venues and festivals in just a few years: dare we say Panorama Bar, FieldManuevers, Boiler Room, De School, Big Dyke Energy and FOLD. It’s folk wisdom, almost a given at this point, that mi-el is killing it.
HiTech – Live | 02:00 AM
Merging classic Detroit Ghetto-tech, house, hip-hop, HiTech are on a three-man mission to destroy the self-consciousness of mainstream “bottle service” club culture by bringing back the chaotic fun, impeccable melodies and sense of humour of early Detroit dance culture. Since the release of their first two albums the group have won over a legion of dedicated fans, including Earl Sweatshirt, Danny Brown, Pink Siifu, DJ Assault, Show Me TheBody, Crystalmess Nia Archives, to name just a few. Along the way, they’ve played much-lauded shows at Berghain, The Lot ,Rinse, The Face’s Rated and events across Paris Fashion Week.
DJ PLEAD – Djset | 03:00 AM
DJ Plead is a Melbourne/Naarm based producer making unique club music. Drawing on his Lebanese background, DJ Plead makes tough, functional, and percussive tracks. His unique style references the rhythms, scales and timbres of Lebanese pop and traditional Lebanese wedding music, blending them with contemporary RnB, Club and other dance styles. DJ Plead released his debut EP ‘Get in Circle’ through air max 97’s DECISIONS label in March 2018 and has since toured Europe and China. DJ Plead is also half of drum-workout duo Poison, a member of high-energy trio BV, and founder of the SUMAC label.
SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH
OSCILLAZIONI CONTEMPORANEE
SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Museo degli Strumenti Musicali del Castello Sforzesco
A project selected under the FNSV – National Fund for Live Performance – Special Projects section, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the RAI Studio of Musical Phonology in Milan. Presented in collaboration with MMT Creative Lab and NoMus.
– BINAURAL LISTENING SESSION
10:30 AM – 6:30 PM | Cortile della Rocchetta, Castello Sforzesco
An immersive journey featuring original pieces from the archives of the RAI Studio of Musical Phonology in Milan, alongside new works by Laura Agnusdei, Katatonic Silentio, Massimiliano Viel, Paine Cuadrelli, and Alberto Ricca (Bienoise).
– TALK and LIVE PERFORMANCE
11:30 PM – 1:10 PM | Sala Balla, Museo degli Strumenti Musicali
Talk with Walter Prati (MMT), Maddalena Novati (NoMus), Laura Agnusdei (Artist), and Ruggero Pietromarchi (Threes’ Artistic Director)
Live Performance by Laura Agnusdei – A reinterpretation of John Cage’s “Fontana Mix”, originally composed at the RAI Studio of Musical Phonology in Milan.
– SOUND WORKSHOPS LED BY WALTER PRATI
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM / 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM | Museo degli Strumenti Musicali
The activity involves the collective elaboration of archival materials and works by Henri Pousseur to produce original musical sequences, fostering an educational and creative experience – open to all ages and backgrounds.
TEATRO CONTINUO co-curated with HUNDEBISS Records
in collaboration with K-WAY
SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH
MARYLOU – Dj Set | 4:00 PM
Marylou is a french, Berlin-based DJ. Former Morphine Records, YOUTH & Ominira affiliate has got impeccable tastes focusing on a no boundaries selection. Part of Wheel Of Fortune dj collective with rRoxymore, CCL, Nono Gigsta. Her edgy and psychedelic sets are always an experimentation of her true style : Layers of Traditional music, improv jazz and Noise to dub, bass, footwork or breakcore, there are always special instants in Marylou’s mixes, jumping with grace around bpms and genres, which have already gotten the likes of festivals & platforms like Atonal, Terraforma, Intonal, CTM, Cafe Oto, Organik, Freerotation, Berghain for club sets but also renewed as a cinematic, lyrical and noisy opening or closing act for live shows like Senyawa, Masma Dream World, Mazaher, Actress, Valentina Magaletti, Monolake. Marylou is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
JIM C. NEDD – Live | 6:00 PM
Jim C. Nedd is an Italian-Colombian artist based in Milan, known for his interdisciplinary practice that combines photography, music, and sound installations, exploring themes such as identity, collective memory, and Caribbean culture. He published the monograph Remembering Songs in 2023 and has collaborated with various artists and international institutions. In addition to photography, he is the co-founder of the experimental music collective Primitive Art. At Terraforma Exo, Jim C. Nedd will present a new, original musical project alongside a band of five musicians, further expanding his artistic research into performative and collective realms.
DJ ANDERSON DO PARAISO -Live | 7:00 PM
DJ Anderson do Paraíso is at the forefront of the Funk BH (or Funk Mineiro) scene, offering a darker, more minimal answer to Brazil’s chaotic clatter of drums and MCs. Paraíso’s music simmers with tense, cinematic energy, muddling minimal, bumpy rhythms and nods to vintage hip-hop with classical, folk and jazz instrumentation and haunted samples. His debut album ‘Querid ã o’, released earlier this year on Nyege Nyege Tapes, is one of the scene’s most idiosyncratic transmissions, a slowed-down, reverb-drenched collage of early dubstep low-end, high-pitched squeals and eerie, whisper-quiet vocals that’s as sensual as it is terrifying.
ALYS(ALYS)ALYS b2b PIEZO – Djset |8:00 PM
Brazil-born, Berlin-based alys(alys)alys explores the (un)common ground between experimental, club, and soundcloud music; crafting a dynamic approach to her own productions and eclectic DJ sets. Since 2018, she has performed in venues and parties such as Berlin Atonal, Rewire, CTM Festival, Venice Biennale, Herrensauna, as well as in some of the notorious Brazilian parties such as Mamba Negra, which she is affiliated with. In 2024, she was selected to be part of the artist roster of Shape Platform, a European initiative supporting emerging talent in experimental music and audiovisual art. In the meantime, she has been working as the producer of singer songwriter Monstera Black, their rst EP “Awkward Attraction” came out through the Berlin label Voitax in 2024. And she released the third volume of her genre-blurring compilation ‘booty&legs’ featuring club-ready music that sits at the intersection of experimental club music and pop.
Alys(alys)alys is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
Scaling the liminal nexus of UK club futurism with tempoless inhibitions and adventurous textures in sound, Piezo explores the kinetic infinites of dance music’s vast permutations.Luca Mucci’s output as Piezo revels in the hi-def synthetics of sound sculpting, pirouetting through off-kilter frameworks of total dance crud in a remarkable multiplicity of psychedelic variations.Cast from the embers of dubstep’s heyday experienced from his native home of Milan, he temporary relocated to Bristol enjoying an immersive spell in the city’s legendary sound system culture and vibrant alternative music community.
