The Feste Religiose in Sicilia project consists on the production and curatorship of a series of artistic performances in three Sicilian villages (Alcara Li Fusi, Palazzolo Acreide and Santa Maria La Scala). This choice represents a way of combining a thousand-year-old tradition with innovative cultural practices in companionship with the long-term intention of contributing to the enhancement of the island's historical heritage in a contemporary key. Alongside Matilde Cassani, the pioneer fil rouge of all the Feste Religiose series, in Santa Maria La Scala on the 25th of August, are Mai Mai Mai and Maria Violenza (musical performance). 

Mai Mai Mai is an Audio/Video project, known for his incredible blend of Southern Italian Folklore, industrial drone, proto-techno & punishing miasmic electronic music, considered a kind of 'Mediterranean Hauntology'.

Originally from Palermo (Mecca of the Sicilian Inquisition) Maria Violenza embodies the revenge of heretics. She translates suffering into punk and synthetic melodies, a subway journey in the opposite direction from Medina to Mecca. Her music nails you to the wall, while neuroses are accentuated, and the fatal acceleration of beats takes you into the underworld. Maria Violenza is modern exorcism with a rhythm box, a synth, a looper and Arabic folk riffs as tools.

For the third event of Feste Religiose, Mai Mai Mai joins Maria Violenza for a special project during the fishermen's festival of Santa Maria La Scala: a boat concert focused on traditional fishermen's music, chants of the "Tonnare" and sea-themed popular songs, passing from the use of ancient archival recordings up to reinterpreting traditional songs with the voice of Maria Violenza. The concert will take place and sail on a traditional boat during the celebration of the festivity

The Feste Religiose in Sicilia project consists of the production and curatorship of a series of artistic performances in three Sicilian villages (Alcara Li Fusi, Palazzolo Acreide and Santa Maria La Scala). This choice represents a way of combining a thousand-year-old tradition with innovative cultural practices in companionship with the long-term intention of contributing to the enhancement of the island's historical heritage in a contemporary key. Alongside Matilde Cassani, the pioneer fil rouge of all the Feste Religiose series, the artists involved on the debut on the occasion of the celebration of San Sebastiano, in Palazzolo Acreide on the 11th of August, is Sarah Davachi.

Matilde Cassani moves on the border between architecture, installation and event design. Her practice deals with the spatial implications of cultural pluralism in the contemporary Western city. Her works have been showcased in many cultural institutions, art galleries and were published in several magazines such as Architectural Review, Domus, Abitare, Flash art, Arkitecktur, Arqa.

Sarah Davachi is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space, utilizing extended durations and considered harmonic structures that emphasize gradual variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and tuning and intonation. Her compositions span solo, chamber ensemble, and acousmatic formats, incorporating a wide range of acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Similarly informed by minimalist and longform tenets, early music concepts of form, affect, and intervallic harmony, as well as experimental production practices of the studio environment, in her sound is an intimate and patient experience that lessens perceptions of the familiar and the distant.

The Feste Religiose in Sicilia project consists of the production and curatorship of a series of artistic performances in three Sicilian villages (Alcara Li Fusi, Palazzolo Acreide and Santa Maria La Scala). This choice represents a way of combining a thousand-year-old tradition with innovative cultural practices in companionship with the long-term intention of contributing to the enhancement of the island's historical heritage in a contemporary key. Alongside Matilde Cassani, the pioneer fil rouge of all the Feste Religiose series, the artists involved on the debut on the occasion of La Festa del Muzzini, in Alcara Li Fusi on the 24th of June, are Luca Trevisani (installation) and Lero Lero (musical performance).

Matilde Cassani moves on the border between architecture, installation and event design. Her practice deals with the spatial implications of cultural pluralism in the contemporary Western city. Her works have been showcased in many cultural institutions, art galleries and were published in several magazines such as Architectural Review, Domus, Abitare, Flash art, Arkitecktur, Arqa.

Luca Trevisani research ranges between sculpture and video, and crosses borderline disciplines such as performing arts, graphics, design, experimental cinema and architecture, in a perpetual magnetic and mutant condition.

The Lero Lero collective pays homage to the Alcarean polyvocal tradition of the sound documents collected up to the end of the 20th centur: singing stripped of any harmonic instrumental support, except that of the voices themselves in their polyvocal joints, according to patterns and solutions handed down orally for generations, up to about 30 years ago.

Ortigia Sound System x AD 93
at Ex Cinema Aramis, Milano.

Anunaku b2b Tasker
Coby Sey
Lauren Duffus
Sky H

Ortigia Sound System presented Territory
A foreground of Landscape as a Project. In the environmental matrix, between city, sea, and mountains, the New Mediterranean Sicily bursts. An interdisciplinary device at the edge of identity. A space so complex, fragile, and resilient.