Concert

Nkisi x Francesca Heart

11.06.2026

Artists
Francesca Heart
Nkisi

Villa Medici is delighted to welcome musician Nkisi, Congolese-Belgian DJ, producer and composer, a major figure on the electronic scene and committed to ethnographic research. For the occasion, she invites Francesca Heart, now a fixture on the Italian experimental music scene. Together, they will perform an exceptional double set on the Bosco terrace, creating a resonant dialogue between their sonic explorations.

For this two-voice dj set, Villa Medici invites two female artists who dare to experiment with sound and unexpected references to traces of the past, for a genre marked by the contemporary. Nkisi renews her link with the traces of Italian traditions, both tangible and intangible. In 2021, she already completed a residency in Palermo, Sicily, bringing to life a concert at the Salinas Archaeological Museum, as part of the MainOFF electronic music festival, while immersing herself in the local culture.

Nkisi

Nkisi is an electronic musician and artist-composer whose work ranges from live performance to sound research to energetic experimentation. With roots in the Congolese diaspora and a deep commitment to African cosmologies, her music combines elements of rhythmic noise with ancient rhythmic structures, ambient-industrial strategies and metaphysical research. She is co-founder of the now legendary NON Worldwide. She conducts research through her project The Anomaly Index, which explores sound phenomena, the science of myths, rhythm and vibration as counter-epistemologies. Her live sets are known for their intensity, linking the dance floor and the ritual site, while her compositions often draw on esoteric knowledge systems, Kongo cosmology and non-Western conceptions of time. Through...

Francesca Heart

Francesca Heart is a Grammy-nominated Italian composer, producer and performer. Rooted in the cultural and geological landscapes of Southern Italy, her sound weaves together emotional and contemplative spaces informed by Mediterranean mythology. Her work is motivated by the conviction that listening is a radical tool for reconfiguring our relationship with the earth and the cosmos. Through her albums released on Leaving Records, she approaches music with a passion for cinematic textures inspired by 80s and 90s composers such as Eric Serra, Joanna Brouk and Iasos, and the sounds of 2000s video games she played as a child with her brother. Alongside her productions, she teaches embodied methodologies. She trained in postmodern dance with Anna Halprin at the Tamalpa Institute (USA)....