AKHET w/Riccardo La Foresta 'ZERO, 999...' premiere, Shapednoise, Eraclio +CaraluceB2BMsMugwump

Friday, May 9th, 2025, 9PM, AKHET presents: RICCARDO LA FORESTA Riccardo La Foresta is a percussionist and sound artist whose output in recent years has revealed a variety of different practices related to sound. Since 2015, he has dedicated himself to the development of the Drummophone, an aerophone instrument derived from the drum capable of creating ancestral melodies and microtonal harmonies, questioning the role of the drum as a percussive instrument. At the same time, he creates site-specific performances, sound sculptures and installations without limiting his work to percussion. La Foresta has toured Europe intensively playing experimental music, free jazz, contemporary music and presenting sound installations at festivals such as: Unsound, CTM, Terraforma, Sonica, OSA, Skanu Mesz, Sacrum Profanum, LisboaSoa, LOST, Robot, AngelicA, Tempo Reale, La Digestion and Romaeuropa among others. La Foresta was Shape Platform's featured artist in 2021. He is premiering at AKHET his new record "ZERO,999..." released by OOH-sounds. SHAPEDNOISE Nino Pedone, born on the ancient island of Sicily and now based in Berlin, is a producer, DJ, sound designer, and label founder best known for his work as Shapednoise. His music fuses complex, distorted electronic textures with harsh, meticulously designed rhythms, cutting across genre boundaries and drawing inspiration from industrial music, hardcore continuum, experimental noise, hip-hop, and rap. Pedone’s idiosyncratic technique has evolved over four major releases: Until Human Wakes Us (Opal Tapes, 2013), Different Selves (Type, 2015), Aesthesis (Numbers, 2019), and Absurd Matter (2023), the inaugural release on his new multidisciplinary platform, WEIGHT LOOMING. Absurd Matter is his most ambitious work to date, pushing sonic experimentation into unstable yet strangely familiar forms. It features guest appearances from NY rap duo Armand Hammer, techno-rap pioneer Brodinski, David Lynch collaborator Dean Hurley, avant-garde Philly artist Moor Mother, and Bruiser Brigade’s ZelooperZ. Pedone has performed at some of Europe’s most challenging festivals, including Berlin Atonal, CTM, Unsound, C2C, ESNS, Simple Things, and Sonic Acts. And has crafted innovative DJ mixes for Resident Advisor, FACT, Solid Steel (Ninja Tune), Crack Magazine, and The Wire. ERACLIO Eraclio operates from the periphery — geographic, sonic, half-lit. Hailing from the province of Caserta now living in Naples, he co-founded A Flooded Need in 2019 with Nocturnerror — a space for non-linear sound practices, glitch detours and long listens. Since 2024, he’s been part of AKHET, a curatorial and editorial platform investigating the intersections between sound, visual culture and publishing. He currently studies electronic music at Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella in Naples. His sets reject form and function: no beatmixing, no narrative. Just emotional residue, heterogeneous materials. An unstable language, driven by instinctive editing and more akin to cut-up than linear composition. His sonic aesthetics align with the fractured paths of American noise, audio-mimic, sound collage and corrupted memory. CARALUCE b2b MSMUGWUMP Caraluce is the prism of Clara, a multidisciplinary artist and multi-instrumentalist. In the study of visual arts in an imagery nourished by Campania's popular culture and theater, the artist's research uses mediums such as needle and thread to access an inner world built by symbols, seals and masks in a grand circus web. The musical language is a promise of trespassing between genres, in a round-trip underground journey between ancestral and hypnotic sounds, clubbing and electronic harmonies, between roots and deconstruction. MsMugwump is the moniker of Diana Magri, a DJ without boundaries, who explores every musical horizon, from experimental electronica to free jazz, from dub to pop, from hip hop to industrial, from hardcore to popular music, from noise to reggaeton. In total rejection for the distinction of “GENRE,” listening becomes a practice of migration, of nomadism. Auditorium Novecento via Enrico De Marinis 4 Napoli