Riccardo La Foresta & James Ginzburg

Riccardo La Forestais a percussionist and sound artist based in Modena, whose work questions the role of the drum as a percussive instrument. Over the past eight years, he developed a system called Drummophone, through which he creates resonances and vibrations treating the drum as an aerophone and creating acoustic drones, ancestral melodies and complex beats that drastically distance the instrument from traditional drumming. La Foresta's research blurs the lines between percussion music, sound art, improvisation, and drone music, revealing the acousmatic response of the architecture.

James Ginzburg is a British American musician and artist based in Berlin. He is one-half of emptyset alongside Paul Purgas, and one-quarter of Osmium with Hildur Guðnadóttir, Rully Shabara and Sam Slater.