Mirco Mencacci

film works
5.1 surround audio

Mirco Mencacci is an Italian sound designer within the film, video art and music industry. He has designed, directed and supervised sound editing on over 400 movies involving directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Ferzan Ozpetek. Many of his film projects have premiered at major film festivals around the world, exhibited also at Guggenheim NYC, MOMA NYC, Pompidou in Paris, MAXXI Museum in Rome including Yuri Ancarani’s trilogy (“Il Capo”, “Piattaforma Luna” and “Da Vinci”), Paolo Benvenuti’s “Puccini and the Girl” and Antonioni’s “Michelangelo Eye to Eye”. In occasion of TQSV Mencacci will present a set of audio works through a surround sound 5.1 audio system. The event is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in London (IIC)

Paul Modler

reFlect
for surround sound system and motor controlled ultrasonic speakers

Paul Modler is a researcher, musician and composer of computer-oriented music. He is a full-time assistant and lecturer at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), Germany. His interests are in multichannel spatialisation, music interaction, gesture recognition and gestural control of music and improvisation techniques.

Jan Hendrickse + Simon Allen + Sandro Mussida

Felt
surround sound set

Felt is a supple solid product… an anti-fabric. It implies no separation of threads, no intertwining, only an entanglement of fibres obtained by fulling (for example, by rolling the block of fibres back and forth). What becomes entangled are the microscales of the fibres. An aggregate of intrication of this kind is in no way homogeneous: it is nevertheless smooth, and contrasts point by point with the space of fabric (it is in principle infinite, open, and unlimited in every direction; it has neither top nor bottom nor centre; it does not assign fixed and mobile elements but rather distributes a continuous variation). Deleuze / Guattari – A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Simon Allen (percussions)
Sandro Mussida (cello)
Jan Hendrickse (flutes, feedback and electronics)

Coby Sey + Olivia Salvadori

Coby Sey (solo)
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Olivia Salvadori (acousmatic)
An Invisible Ode / fragments 1/5

Coby Sey, long-time collaborator with Mica Levi, Tirzah, Babyfather, Klein and Kwes, recorded work spans the realms of live instrumentation, sample-based productions and experimental music, melting recognisable motifs of hip hop, drone, techno, post-punk, fusion and more into a dubbed-out anaesthesia - as best evidenced on the Whities 010: Transport for Lewisham 10. For OTO, Sey will present a set based on the materials from the ongoing collaboration with experimental soprano Olivia Salvadori.

Olivia is a classically-trained soprano, an operatic solo performer, and an experimental recording artist. She performed at Garage Gallery, Rotterdam; Hong Kong City Hall; Serralves Museum, Porto; Triennale Museum, Milan; Botanical Garden Rome to name a few. She shared collaborations with artists poets musicians such as Mark Fell, Kid Millions, Nanni Balestrini, Grace Schwindt.
http://oliviasalvadori.com/

Rebecca Salvadori

Rebecca Salvadori is an Italian-Australian artist and filmmaker working across moving image, live performance, and installation. Over the past fifteen years, she has developed a distinctive body of work at the intersection of contemporary art and experimental music, creating intimate portraits of musicians, clubs, and communities that blur the boundaries between documentary, expanded cinema, and performance. Rather than treating film as a fixed medium, she approaches it as a way of thinking, developing works that take the form of films, performances, site-specific commissions, and expanded moving-image installations

Selected works include Rave Trilogy (2017–2020), The Sun Has No Shadow (2022), TRESOR TAPES (2022), Messengers (2022–ongoing), A Forbidden Distance (2024), and Not Running (2026). Collaboration is central to her practice, and she has worked with artists and musicians including Lucy Railton, Nhu Xuan Hua, Mark Fell, Coby Sey, Okkyung Lee, Saint Abdullah, Eomac, Charlie Hope, and Alabaster DePlume.

Her work has been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, FOMU – Photography Museum Antwerp, Triennale Milano, the Serralves Museum, Porto, and the Timișoara Architecture Biennial (BETA), among others, as well as at major experimental music festivals including Sonic Acts Biennale, CTM, Berlin Atonal, Unsound, Rewire, Le Guess Who?, and Sónar. In 2025, she received the Italian Council Grant from the Italian Ministry of Culture to develop and internationally produce her first feature-length film.

Sandro Mussida

Piano

Mussida is a London based composer & cellist whose work has been released through Sony Classical, Boomkat, Tapeworms and others. He works closely with Mark Fell, London Contemporary Orchestra and many other artists and institutions. His work investigates the relationships between tradition and innovation in music, active listening, the identity of musical languages and rites. His latest works involve historical, non-equal-tempered tuning systems questioning its perception by the western, standardized ear.
http://sandromussida.com/