“In our days, the singing of the musicians is rather made to divert, divert, divert the minds of the hearers than to excite them to piety and heavenly desires. Indeed, I remember participating a few times in the divine praises, paying close attention while singing in order to be able to understand the words, but could not understand a single one of them. Everything was a tangle of repeated syllables, of confused voices; the sense remained submerged by what, more than singing, was a deafening clamor, a decomposed roar.”

Annus qui hunc, encyclical of Pope Benedict XIV - Feb. 19, 1749

276 years later we meet to repeat disjointed roars, deafening clamors, tickling the ears with instruments the clergy would never have imagined.

⟡ Over the past decade, Passepartout Duo has reinvented itself and the definitions of music encountered around the world. Constantly moving between art residencies and concerts, Nicoletta and Christopher have created an ever-evolving ecosystem of musical instruments, built through a do-it-yourself approach, the centerpiece of a creative process they call “slow music.”

⟡ Merchants is an Italian electronic duo composed of Alberto Ricca (Bienoise) and Davide Amici (Lights in the Pond), born in 2016 with the aim of evoking musical sensibilities and imaginations of nonexistent countries through a sampling-based approach, inspired by “post-global fragments.”

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Wednesday, Feb. 19 - from 9 p.m.

COMBO, Ripa di Porta Ticinese 83 - MIlano