Res_ / Still / DJ Marcelle

The second instalment of From the Far Future explores the breadth of contemporary club culture and the divergent musical experiences that nightlife can produce.
DJ Marcelle, long a cult figure in the experimental dance underground, creates singular collage-based sets that move fluidly between genres and tempos. Using three turntables, field recordings, and an idiosyncratic sense of humour, she constructs performances that collapse expectations and foreground the DJ as both agitator and storyteller.
STILL, the moniker of Italian artist Simone Trabucchi, presents a DJ set shaped by stripped-down rhythmic frameworks and low-frequency pressure. His selections operate in the space between dub, digital abstraction, and raw percussive energy, often foregrounding repetition, and sonic displacement.
Opening the night is res_, presenting a new live performance for electronic instruments. Built around underwater recordings captured in the Venice lagoon using hydrophones, the piece explores the often unheard acoustic ecology of aquatic life, interrupted and obscured by the noise of boats, engines, and human activity. These recordings form the basis of a composition that addresses noise pollution as an urgent, if largely invisible, environmental threat. Interweaving processed sound, voice, and melody, the work moves between abstraction and rhythm, narrative and noise, drawing on both experimental sound art and pop-informed composition to create an emotionally textured listening experience.