Sound performance by Tarek Atoui with Canedicoda, Charbel Haber, Mariam Rezaei

Pirelli HangarBicocca’s Public Program dedicated to the exhibition “Improvisation in 10 Days” by electroacoustic artist and composer Tarek Atoui continues, on Thursday 29 May, 2025 at 7.00 PM, with his sound performance created together with fellow artists Canedicoda, Charbel Haber and Mariam Rezaei.

This performance, a core element of Atoui’s ongoing research and experimentation with sound, will take place within the exhibition space, in direct dialogue with the artworks. Atoui and his invited collaborators will base their live improvisation on a new series of three LPs containing sounds recorded with international musicians playing solos on the artist’s instruments. Some of these recordings are also part of the exhibition in Milan.

Canedicoda (1979, lives and works in Milan), Charbel Haber (1978, lives and works in Paris and Beirut), and Mariam Rezaei (1984, lives and works in Newcastle) were invited by Atoui to use the sounds from the LPs as a starting point to engage with the exhibition, incorporating sound objects from the space into the performance.

The evening will conclude with a book signing by Tarek Atoui, featuring the catalogue “DIALOGS” and the set of three LPs “MONO LOGS”, both produced by Pirelli HangarBicocca for the exhibition in collaboration with Kunsthaus Bregenz, S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, and Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes—institutions that hosted solo exhibitions of the artist between 2023 and 2025.

Free admission on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration opens at 6 PM at the museum’s front desk.

Reservations are available for Membership Card holders subject to availability starting from Thursday 22 May. To validate Member access, please arrive at least 30 minutes before the event starts. Late entry will not be permitted once the performance begins.

 

Upcoming event in the Public Program | Tarek Atoui:
– Thursday 19 June, 2025 at 7 PM – Activation of the exhibition by sound artist Diana Lola Posani
More information and booking details will follow.

 

 

CANEDICODA
Canedicoda (born Giovanni Donadini) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Milan, active in the fields of performance, design, fashion, and music (under the alias Ottaven). He has developed a rich and ever-evolving yet always instantly recognizable authorial universe. A pivotal figure in the circulation and development in Italy of numerous innovative and niche artistic, stylistic, and musical movements, he has an extensive history of collaborations with production labels, non-profit spaces, collectives, and individual Italian and international artists. Since 2003, under the pseudonym Canedicoda, he has pursued a personal exploration of language, style, and method, founding the eponymous production label. He has maintained ongoing collaborations with Marsèlleria/Marsèll, Xing (Netmage Festival, Live Arts Week, Raum), Le Dictateur, Plusdesign Gallery, C2C, Nero, Bonotto Foundation, Viafarini, the Istituto Svizzero, and a range of independent, institutional, and commercial contexts including Carhartt, Replay, Adidas, Vic Matiè, and Dumb Skateboards. In Milan, he opened the artist atelier/concept store Gabbianacci (2012–2014), followed by a series of shot-stores (temporary ateliers), a practice he continues today. In 2018, he co-founded Edizioni Brigantino with Valentina Lucchetti, a project dedicated to design, art, and curatorship. His work has been presented at contemporary art centers and festivals in Italy and abroad, including Museion Bolzano, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome, Triennale Milano, Centro Pecci Prato, M HKA Antwerp, MAXXI L’Aquila, Manifattura Tabacchi Florence, and Far Festival Nyon. He has built enduring artistic collaborations with figures such as Matteo Castro, Luca Trevisani, Cesare Pietroiusti, Luigi Presicce, Roberta Mosca, Nico Vascellari, Kinkaleri, Alessandro Bosetti, Annamaria Ajmone, Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Carlos Casas, Jung an Tagen, Dennis Tyfus, Renato Grieco, and Giovanni Morbin. Among his live projects, in addition to solo concerts as Ottaven (field recordings/experimental) and the duo Primorje with Matteo Castro (concrete/tape-loop music), notable works include Adagio con Buccia (2015–2016), 100 one-on-one performances centered on the co-design and assembly of textiles around thinking bodies, and Musica per un giorno (2016–2039) with dancer Roberta Mosca, a 24-hour performance held annually over 24 years. He has published the book-diary-inventory Adagio con Buccia (NERO, 2018), the sketchbook 80H – eighty imaginary houses I’ll build for you (bruno, 2016), and various audio editions with Second Sleep, Holiday Records, Le Dictateur, and Xing – Xong Collection. He teaches Fashion Accessories Prototyping and Textile Design at NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan (ongoing appointment), and Material Science and Techniques at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
www.canedicoda.com
ottaven.bandcamp.com
www.edizionibrigantino.com

 

CHARBEL HABER
Charbel Haber is a musician, performer, visual artist, and composer born in Lebanon in 1978. Charbel Haber merges elements of ambient, noise, and experimental music. The electric guitar, which he processes through a variety of digital and analog effects, creates lush and textured soundscapes. His music is characterized by rich sonic layers that blend melodic elements with abstract, often glitchy noises. He began his career in the late 1990s in post-war Lebanon. Since then, he has collaborated with artists from various disciplines, both Lebanese and international, such as Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalani, Ali Cherri, Ziad Antar, Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Charbel Hajj Boutros, Tarek Atoui, Forced Entertainment, and the dance company Maqamat, on projects ranging from cinema and visual arts to theater and, more recently, contemporary dance. His solo ambient music albums have been released by labels such as “Discrepant,” “Scum Yr Earth,” “Al Maslakh,” and “Nahal.” He also co-founded Lebanon’s first post- punk band, “Scrambled Eggs,” in 1998 and has since co-founded two experimental music labels: “Those Kids Must Choke” and “Johnny Kafta’s Kids Menu.” He is also a member of several musical ensembles, including “Malayeen” and “The Bunny Tylers” alongside musician-producer Fadi Tabbal. Over the years, his tours have allowed him to meet and collaborate with free rock and improvisation artists such as Michael Zerang, Sam Chalabi, Nicolas Becker, Mats Gustafson, Radwan Moumneh, and Oiseaux-Tempête. His most recent work is the release of a multimedia book that includes a collection of poems and a series of photographs accompanying his latest album, “A Common Misunderstanding of the Speed of Light,” released on the label “Other People” by musician Nicolas Jaar.

 

MARIAM REZAEI
Described by The Wire as “one of the most technically adept and creatively daring artists to use the turntable as a musical instrument,” Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award-winning composer, turntablist and performer. Working at the nexus of experimental new music, free improvisation, mutant club musics and hip-hop, Rezaei uses a digital vinyl system, allowing her to manipulate an expansive range of samples in real time. Her work has been described as “genuinely ground-breaking” (London Jazz News 2022) and “high-velocity sonic surrealism” (The Guardian 2022). Praised by The Wire, Uncut and Bandcamp Daily, her latest release FRACTURED (Heat Crimes) was one of The Quietus’s cassette releases of 2024. In November 2022, she received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation #AwardsForArtists in recognition of her contribution to music composition. She previously led experimental arts projects TOPH, TUSK FRINGE and TUSK NORTH, and is writing a book on turntablism for Repeater.
In addition to her solo work, Rezaei’s projects include a Turntable Trio with Evicshen and Maria Chávez, supergroup The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (with saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, trumpeter/electronics Gabriele Mitelli and drummer Lukas Koenig), and orchestral compositions with Matthew Shlomowitz (6 Scenes for Turntable and Orchestra). Recent performances include a North American tour of the Turntable Trio, a duo with Pat Thomas at Chicago’s Frequency Festiva, the first turntable interpretation of Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance music with guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, and a solo concert at Sons D’Hiver that was broadcast on French national radio. Other collaborations include duos with Jennifer Walshe, Edward George, Farida Amadou, Valentina Magaletti, Lasse Marhaug, Evicshen, Lukas Koenig, Mette Rasmussen, Gabriele Mitelli, Okkyung Lee and Ali Robertson, Black Top with Pat Thomas, Orphy Robinson, Cleveland Watkiss and Leon Foster Thomas, and a quartet with DJ Sniff, Rex Chen and DJ SlowPitchSound at Taipei Biennial 2023.