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 Shapednoise is Sicilian producer, sound designer, DJ and label founder Nino Pedone. As Shapednoise Pedone produces disassembled, distorted techno flawlessly hybridised with abrasive and transcendent sound design. His experimental and unconventional production practices are catalogued across three cerebral album releases;- the 2013 debut ‘The Day of Revenge’ on Hospital Productions, 2015’s ‘Different Selves’ on Type, and most recently ‘Aesthesis’ on Numbers, which received a live debut in the main hall of Kraftwerk at Berlin Atonal 2019 where Shapednoise was joined by filmmaker Pedro Maia turning the sounds into a full spectrum AV show. ‘Aesthesis’ is a complex, controlled collision of noise and metal with rave and hardcore. The release fully reveals Shapednoise‘s exploration of textural sound research, casting sheets of noise, industrial, the UK’s multilayered rave history, and modern rap production influences to create highly sculptured, at times vividly visual sound designs. His DJ sets and the labels he co-founded – Cosmo Rhythmatic & REPITCH Recordings – showcase his heritage, bred simultaneously by the relentless sound of the illegal European rave scene and the most radical fringes of dance music – recently captured in mixes for Resident Advisor in 2019 and Crack Magazine in 2020. An impressive catalogue of collaborations across releases includes work with MHYSA (NON / Halcyon Veil / Hyperdub), Drew McDowall (ex-Coil and Psychic TV), Rabit (Halcyon Veil), and Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu). 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