Mai Mai Mai, Svær

Magasin 4 presents on 5 May 2026 at 17h30:

Mai Mai Mai (IT) (Electronic / Drone / Ambient)
Mai Mai Mai is the audio/video project of Toni Cutrone, a descent into the ritualistic and symbolic depths of Southern Italy and the Mediterranean. Through a dense weave of sound and imagery, it explores the intersection of folklore, spirituality, and popular culture, where pagan rites meet Catholicism, nature meets rural magic, and ancient musical traditions collide with their contemporary transformations.

Svær (BE) (Drone / Ambient / Electroacoustic)
As Svær, Brussels-based sound artist Médéric Mondet unfolds an experimental electronic music project at the intersection of drone, ambient, and electroacoustic practices through dense, immersive textures shaped from heavily processed field recordings, tape loops, and analog manipulations, creating sonic landscapes both raw and precisely sculpted.
His music explores zones of tension between sound materiality and perception, with a focus on the physicality of sound and its political and narrative resonances.
Both introspective and engaged, his sonic practice questions the boundaries of ambient music as well as memory and structures of power, giving rise to deeply embodied listening moments.
He has released music on labels like Bonambi and taâlem and has shared stages with Tim Hecker, Ignatz, or Mark Ijzerman.
He will present some of his forthcoming album, to be released this year on the Bonambi label, offering a glimpse into his recent explorations, where more assured, textured, and immersive compositions unfurl.