FAROUT Live Arts Festival MOMBAO — THE LONGEST GAME

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performance

What is trance but hypnosis, the enchantment of falling into the game?

MOMBAO is a mutant creature, constantly evolving. Its nature is changing again and to enshrine the end of one cycle and the beginning of another, it invites you into its chrysalis.

For this reason MOMBAO has decided to organize a special performance, hovering between a concert, a ritual and a long meditation session: a long “game,” a 5-hour uninterrupted sound stream between semi-structured musical forms and improvisational cycles in which the audience can freely enter and exit or stay there with them accompanying them on the journey, to lean out together to the unexpected.

Just as inside MOMBAO cultures blend and plant worlds and chips become one with each other, their instruments, too, have lately stopped being separate from each other, becoming one system, one big integrated and connected instrument.

In fact, the latest research has led the duo to develop a hybrid set in which drums and synthesizers, connected through sensors, modify each other by influencing their timbres, sounds and rhythmic patterns, in a continuous kaleidoscopic “game” in which electronics become increasingly organic.

Accompanying MOMBAO in this challenge will also be var musicians from the Milanese music scene, to expand from the impermeability of their own research to the porosity of the encounter with the other.

Bio
MOMBAO is a duo formed by Damon Arabsolgar and Anselmo Luisi.
It is an immersive and original project, somewhere between a performance and a concert: the two performers mix original songs in different languages with folk songs from various cultures, rearranged in a rock-electronic key.
The performance takes place in the center of the hall, with the two musicians covered in clay and body paint, surrounded by the audience. The folk root of the project allows MOMBAO to have a transterritorial nature and an impact on different cultures. The result is a mystical techno/punk ritual in which the audience is involved and pulled from a state of high concentration and listening to a liberating dance.
MOMBAO is solarpunk.
  • Duration 300'
  • Doors opening at 16:45
  • This show: is enjoyed from seated, lying down, does not include poetic audio description, involves the use of smoke machine and very loud sounds. We will be happy to answer all your questions, write to us at farout@base.milano.it

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