Sounding Here w/ Leah Plave & Tiziano Teodori, Pietro Frigato, Ruggero di Luisi & Laia Escartin

Step into the unknown with Sounding Here—an avant-garde platform curated by Christine Cornwell, where boundaries between genres dissolve, and sound-worlds converge. Experience live performances that defy expectations and ignite the senses.
This season’s Sounding Here re-boots with experiments between the living and the machine, the bodies of performers are the link between ancient instruments and electricity. Three acts based in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Antwerp bring their experiments bridging spaces between musical traditions, freedom, and noise, featuring live electronics, strings, voice, electric guitars, and drums. Expect a spine tingling voyage.
Leah Plave & Tiziano Teodori
Leah and Tiziano’s improvisations explore the depths and colors of the cello through the analogue modular synthesis process, experimentation with live sampling, timbre development, layering, minimalism, and abstract contest creation. With shared roots as baroque and classically trained musicians, Leah and Tiziano often embed nods to the past inside futuristic sounds.
Leah Plave – Cello
Tiziano Teodori – Electronic Sound Operator
Cellist Leah Plave and electroacoustic sound operator Tiziano Teodori met in Den Haag in 2020 as members of a music collective, Linen of Words; a multidisciplinary ensemble featuring American folk repertoire. A shared ambition for fusing genres and exploring electronic sound drove Leah and Tiziano to venture into previously uncharted territory of ground-breaking sounds and techniques, challenging the mold of the cello’s traditionally perceived voice. They premiered their program of both composed and improvised works for cello and live electronics in 2023 at the Sound Art Festival in Den Haag. Since then, their music has been widely appreciated in venues such as De Doelen, Space is the Place, and Angelica Festival Internazionale di Musica.
Leah’ website // Tiziano’s instagram // Leah’s and Tiziano past work and here
Please Talk To Me
‘Please Talk to Me’ is an artistic research project stirring the topics of solo free improvised music and improvised music in relation to non-human constructs, spanning from digital/analog sound-producing algorithms to soundscapes. Pietro explores the interactions between an improviser and a ‘quasi-improvising’ modular synthesizer, challenging the concepts of cyborgs in music and creation together with non-human companions.
Pietro Frigato – Guitar and Synthesizers
Pietro Frigato is a Musician and sound artist whose research is focused on the creation of ephemeral sound cosmogonies throughout improvisation, on open forms and non-linear narrative, on connections via the means of sound. His performances can be described as a dynamically wide emotionally ranged, archetypical, primal, wordless storytelling torn in conflict between total abstraction and deep symbolism. Alongside his solo project he performs with rAIN, Ensemble Collettivo Crisis, Shortest job first S.P.I.I.C. ensemble. website // youtube // instagram
Ruggero di Luisi & Laia Escartin
Ruggero and Laia, from different backgrounds and interests, meet on stage nearly blindly, with no plan, to dialogue and chitter chatter in any kind of sound. The live electronics and the drums of Ruggero mixing with the viola and the voice of Laia. It can be intimate, it can be loud, it can be… we do not know yet.
Ruggero di Luisi – Live Electronics & Drums
Ruggero di Luisi is a Sicilian drummer, composer and producer investigating improvisation, sonic shapes, deconstructing textures and synaesthesia through different mediums including drums, percussion and electronics.For ever curious in various expressions and forms of the collective spirit. Ruggero recently released his own album, and he is part of projects such as" Tututu Orquestra". "Kopieslav radio", "Black baby tiger" among many other projects.
website // instagram
Laia Escartin – Viola & Vocals
Laia Escartin is a half spanish half flemish singer, violist and composer. She is fascinated by different folk traditions, especially by all the different Mediterranean. In her search, she gets inspired by those ancient sounds, which are also a way to travel to other worlds, learn of them and then tell the story again. She is part of "Escarteen Sisters" and "Xaloq", and collaborates with different temporal projects based in the Netherlands.
website // instagram