Laraaji — AlignmentWorld premiere

The 82-year-old American artist Laraaji, one of the most distinctive and radiant figures in contemporary ambient and new age music, comes to Biennale Musica with one of his extraordinary live performances. Trained as an actor, comedian and classical musician, Laraaji was discovered by Brian Eno in the early 1980s and soon became a seminal figure in the development of ambient music. Since then, he has continued to expand his creative universe through concerts, Laughter Meditation workshops and interdisciplinary collaborations. His compositions for electric autoharp and zither and electronically processed instruments seem suspended in a timeless dimension, where luminous, sustained vibrations unfold into soundscapes of profound stillness and contemplative ecstasy.