Electropark Exchanges

A series of theatre concerts combined with a technical training course for live performance under the banner of contamination between electronic music and other sound languages. Since 2016, Electropark Exchanges has brought to Milan an unexpected and innovative combination of visual arts, new media, futuristic technologies and musical performance, creating a hybrid and multidisciplinary artistic proposal.

Electropark Exchanges stands out not only for its choice of Milanese locations, but also for its format and artistic proposal. The intention is to propose an innovative format not only for Milan but also at an international level, making the Franco Parenti Theatre one of the emblems of growth in the field of experimental music and a new meeting place for a public that is increasingly interested and willing to open up to new forms of cultural enjoyment.

Electropark Exchanges involves the public not only through its interest in the performance proposal, but also by making it participate in the first person through talks, interviews, workshops and laboratories. In particular, the latter are curated and led by the multimedia artists involved, who deepen their visions, cultural awareness, technical and technological experiences.

The first edition of Electropark Exchanges saw Kangding Ray, Barry Burns, Roedelius, Stefan Schneider, Bugge Wesseltoft and Christian Prommer take the stage at Teatro Parenti, with a contamination of electronics, jazz, classical and post-rock enhancing international collaborations of the highest level.

With the Canadian artists Tim Hecker, Egyptrixx and Marie Davidson, the next edition proposed a triptych of events in three different rooms of the architectural complex of the Franco Parenti Theatre in solo projects and artistic processes of exploration of performance spaces.

In 2018, the proposal has varied from the audio-video project ‘Reassemblage’ by the American duo Visible Cloaks, to the performance for electronics and piano ‘Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner’ by the American artist Jace Clayton (aka DJ/rupture) with David Friend, Emily Manzo and Arooj Aftab, and then to the collaboration between the British experimental producer Philip Jeck, the Canadian director Karl Lemieux and the Austrian video-artist Michaela Grill.