The opening concert, Monday, Sept. 16, places two distinct sides of the ambient matrix side by side with two young artists now established in the international scene. Dutch Nadia Struiwigh, on modular synthesizer, dwells on dreamlike, synthetic landscapes, reprising musical material from her well-received LP Birds Of Paradise. Built on introspective elements, the musical discourse of his live performance moves along a path in which a nuanced sonic articulation emerges, with a narrative flow that leads into differentiated acoustic spaces and an immersive listening experience.

The artistic parable of Brian Leeds, Huerco S., on the other hand, is more cohesive, though generally straddling two genres: on the one hand, static and rarefied minimal ambient, and on the other hand, the use of a rhythmic palette, veteran of house approaches and IDM vaults, but transfigured as if in a symbolic perspective. Precisely around this unresolved tension, ambivalence becomes the crux of Huerco S.’s creative dilemma.