The opening of the DRY NOTES series featured PING PONG, a duo formed by Andrea Renzini and Stefano Passini. During the event, they played their eponymous album for the first time in Milan, released by the Raw Culture label in September 2023. The repertoire is extremely experimental and rhythmic, straddling electronic and improvised heavy jazz. Among the sounds used were an electronically harmonized vacuum cleaner, syncopated drumming, voice samples from speakers, and sounds from Korean ping pong matches. Some of the tracks were accompanied by the voice of Viola Cenacchi, a curator and performer who has collaborated with the duo since 2023, with whom they inaugurated the project Spray Porn. The concert was accompanied by a tasting of craft beer, Herba Monstrum, an original, live, unpasteurized beer, presented by the master brewer who produces it, Marco Mantella.

During the event, the DRY, monochromatic canvases of pure pigment created by artist Giorgio Bernasconi, were displayed, framing the evening.

Photos by: Marco Paleari

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