Sound Festival for the Elephant

As the third Act off “A Meander, (com)positions with the river” by Futurefarmers, a Sound Festival for the Elephant invites visitors to explore the life force of the river and its perpetual motion as an energy that can be drawn upon to explore new forms of creation and relationships. The festival takes place in the framework of Lungomare’s ongoing Project FLUX – River Interventions and Explorations. 

The festivals’ program that unfolds over the course of three days includes a procession that carries the elephant (an elephant-shaped construction) like a sacred statue to its destination on the banks of the Isarco. Specially created by Futurefarmers, the fluid, slouching and bulky architecture of the animal arrives on the banks of the river to lie down exhausted after a long journey, where a group of artists and citizens awaits with a feast of music and refreshment that can restore their tired and thirsty limbs. The time that the elephant rests by the riverside will be accompanied by narrations, installations and concerts, transforming the riverbank by via Trento into a central place of meeting and exchange.

Futurefarmers, and a variation of local and international groups and artists (including Ellis Blauw and Guillermo Galindo), contribute to a program of performances, installations and workshops that connect with water to make visible and tangible how the energy of the river can be used as a transformative force for the urban community.

Program:

::: Friday, 30.06.2023 :::
Procession

5 pm Departure of the Elephant from Lungomare with Futurefarmers and Ultra Alto
7 pm Arrival and tuning at the riverside of Isarco
8 pm "Sonisarco. Animate Through Presence" installation by Ultra Alto

6–10 pm sound installations tuning by Guillermo Galindo, Ellis Blauw

::: Saturday, 01.07.2023 :::
Resonance

8 pm "Rippled Voices" Sound performance by Ellis Blauw, accompanied by Fly Fishing with Riccardo Favaro

6-10 pm Scenography by Futurefarmers
Sound installations by Guillermo Galindo, Ellis Blauw
"Sonisarco. Animate Through Presence" installation by Ultra Alto
Riverlivers installation with Lorenzo Oliva Laffargue, Gaia D’Inzeo, Sarah Binkowski (UniBz) 

::: Sunday, 02.07.2023 :::
Ecstatic Ensembles

8 pm "Octophant" sound performance by Guillermo Galindo

6–10 pm Scenography by Futurefarmers
Sound installations by Guillermo Galindo, Ellis Blauw
"Sonisarco. Animate Through Presence" installation by Ultra Alto

Eisack’s Elixir’s Tea Bar by Clara Milla
Moroccan Food by Bahjia