Streaming and in-person:
Click for stream Stefano Pilia presents solo the compositions of his latest works "Spiralis Aurea" and "Lacinia," the two double albums released by Die Schachtel and SZSugar in 2022 and 2025, in an original adaptation for electric guitar and electronics. The performance, through execution, improvisation and practices inherent to his instrumental and electroacoustic research developed over the years, recontextualizes the poetics of these two works in a broader and more visionary formal polarity: an acousmatic dramaturgy between logos and chaos: a new sonic meditation experience which intertwines "traces of sacred geometry, collective experience and elusive connections between nature and humankind". Pilia continues the exploration of the metaphysical, spiritual, and divine dimensions through number, geometry, and the creation of tonal forms and architectures with properties similar and isomorphic to those archetypal, immutable forms that represent the intersection between the abstract realm of mathematics and the real structures of the physical world: a series of "troubled" sonic meditations that encourage active listening and evoke echoes of ancient liturgical and devotional music through a refined intersection of acoustic and electroacoustic processes, drone, and chamber music.
Stefano Pilia is a guitar player, producer and composer born in Genoa and based in Bologna. His work has become progressively concerned with researching the sculptural properties of sound as well as sound’s relationship with space, memory and the suspension of time. Pilia explores these points of focus through instrumental practice and investigations into the recording and production process. He is one of the founding members (alongside Valerio Tricoli and Claudio Rocchetti) of the seminal group 3/4HadBeenEliminated, a project that synthesises improvisational, electro-acoustical and avant-rock sensibilities. Pilia predominantly plays as a soloist though collaborates extensively. though his multifaceted practice has also led to an active involvement in a host of other wide-ranging projects. Since 2010 Pilia has been a member of psychedelic quartet In Zaire, a focal contributor to the BGP trio, alongside David Grubbs and Andrea Belfi. Additionally, since 2009, Pilia has been a founder member of il Sogno del Marinaio, a trio made up of legendary Minutemen bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen). He currently plays in Spiralis Aurea ensembles with guitarist Alessanda Novaga, Adrian Utley (Portishead) and the cellists Giuseppe Franchellucci and Mattia Cipolli, in Sulla Lingua a trio with Anthony Pateras and Riccardo La Foresta and with the violinist Silvia Tarozzi quintet, in duo with the sound engineer and producer Marta Salogni.
As well as these myriad projects, Pilia has been lead guitarist for celebrated Malian singer Rokia Traorè (since 2012), of the cult seminal band Massimo Volume (2008-2016) and for the longstanding cult Italian band Afterhours (since 2015). in an impressive range of work and different contexts Pilia has collaborated with several artists and musicians such as Katia and Marielle Labeque, David Tibet, Ka Baird, John Duncan, Zu, Oren Ambarchi, John Parish, Fire Orchestra!, Angela Bullock, Oliver Mann, Gianluigi Toccafondo, Laura Agnusdei, WuMing, Phill Niblock, Z’ev, Starfuckers, Manuel Mota, David Maranha and many others. Since several years he has been involved in silent movies live soundtracking frequently comissioned by Home Movies, Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and Cinema Ritrovato festival of Bologna. His discography, which currently stands at over forty recordings, has been released on a number of well established record labels (Die-Schachtel, Maple Death, Improved, Blue Chopsticks, Black Truffle). He has played extensivly all over Europe, North America, Africa And Australia.
Cost: FREE