Villa Sonora

Demetrio Castellucci is a composer and sound designer who has been active in the fields of theater, choreography, and film since 2004. Around the same time, he began hosting events and parties as a DJ, favoring an omnitemporal approach centered on dance and transcending musical genres. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Dewey Dell dance company, and since 2007, he has been active under the name Black Fanfare, a maximalist electroacoustic project. He has collaborated, among others, on performances by Andreco and Enrico Ticconi/Ginevra Panzetti, as well as on films by Ahmed Ben Nessib, Beatrice Pucci, and Ilaria di Carlo. After living in London and Berlin, he settled in Vilnius, where he founded Unarcheology in 2018, a digital platform that releases music and radio shows. Demetrio is...

MAI MAI MAI is Toni Cutrone’s audio/video project, a journey into the ritual and symbolic depths of southern Italy and the Mediterranean. Through a dense tapestry of sounds and images, he explores the intersection of folklore, spirituality, and popular culture, where pagan rites meet Catholicism, nature meets rural magic, and ancient musical traditions clash with their contemporary transformations. Using field recordings, archival material, and collaborations with artists from the avant-garde and ethnic music scenes (including Youmna Saba, Mike Cooper, Vera di Lecce, Lino Capra Vaccina, Maria Attribue, Nziria, Go Dugong), Mai Mai Mai constructs a soundscape rooted in what might be called the Mediterranean and “Auntology”: not a nostalgic reverence for the past, but a raucous reawakening...

Eitan Efrat collaborates with Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Laszlo Umhumor, and others, creating works in the fields of audiovisual art, music, installation, and performance. He lives and works in Brussels. Their practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image. In their work, they aim to highlight the spatial and temporal potentials of interpreting images—whether moving or still—and sound; the relationships between spectatorship and narrative; the temporality of narratives and memory; and materiality within the production of images. Eitan currently teaches at the ERG in Brussels. Eitan adheres to the guidelines of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) campaign against the Zionist settlement in Palestine.

Matthias Puech is a French composer, sound artist, researcher, and electronic instrument builder born in 1983 in Paris. He is the creator of GRM Tools Atelier, a software environment for sound creation, as well as numerous Eurorack modules for synthesis and sound processing. His music has been released by labels such as Hands in the Dark and Hallow Ground, and performed across Europe at venues including Café OTO (London, UK), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam, NL), gnration (Braga, PT), and Akousma (Paris, FR). He has received commissions from the Festival Présences, France Musique (“Création Mondiale”), and France Culture (“L’Expérience”). Matthias Puech holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is a former associate professor.

A trumpeter, improviser, and composer, Timothée Quost has been pursuing an international career for several years.

An adventurous musician, his musical exploration lies at the crossroads of genres, breaking new ground in soundscapes that blend contemporary music, free jazz, experimental music, jazz, and sound art… He can be heard performing solo, presenting music based on close-mic amplification of the trumpet; with his ensemble LIKEN, founded with conductor Léo Margue; or in various ensembles ranging from duos to quintets.

Alongside tours that have taken him to every corner of Europe, Timothée Quost has been committed for the past decade to promoting the dissemination of original music to a broad audience, with a focus on rural communities. In addition to the VIF evenings—which for the...