Ife

Matteo Tomasetti & Consuelo Donati's Performance ​Ife is a live audiovisual performance blending electronic and IDM music with spatial sound, live visuals, and interactive gestures. Ife explores a subterranean world hidden from view, where mycelium spreads its filaments and creates invisible connections. ​In this dimension, pulses and melodies travel through silent networks, revealing structures that take shape through sound and light. The mycelium expands, vibrates, and responds to the performer's gestures, transforming the space into a living, ever-evolving organism. ​Ife tries to fuse the biological and the digital, inviting the audience to perceive what usually remains hidden: the intricate web of relationships that sustains and unites the underground world. ​Artist: Matteo Tomasetti, Consuelo Donati ​Matteo Tomasetti (he/him) is an Italian sound artist and live performer creating immersive musical experiences where gesture-based interfaces and spatial audio play a central role. With a background in electronic music and audiovisual composition, and a Ph.D. in Music Technology from the University of Trento, his artistic practice spans acousmatic and electroacoustic music, techno, ambient and IDM productions, experimental electronics, as well as sound art and multimedia and interactive installations. ​His works have been performed at venues and festivals worldwide, including Ars Electronica, Venice Biennale, Gaudeamus Festival, ICMC, NIME, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Videocittà Festival, Live Cinema Festival, and many others. Under the alias ShapeDaze, he performs IDM and experimental music, blending influences from ambient, acousmatic, glitch/noise, and techno/rave. Matteo is also the co-founder of the BitNet01 collective, which organizes electronic music and digital art festivals across Italy and Europe. ​— ​Consuelo Donati (she/her) is an Italian multimedia artist whose transdisciplinary practice spans audiovisual performance, interaction design, immersive installation, and scenography. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and a Master’s in Multimedia Arts and Interaction Design from the Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA). ​Her work explores the intersections between the physical and digital realms, often focusing on interactivity and the relationship between body and technology. She has taken part in several artistic residencies across Italy, including Centrale Fies, Lavanderia a Vapore, Spazio 500, Garage Lab, and Fabbrica Urbana. ​She is the co-founder of BitNet01, a collective that curates festivals throughout Europe dedicated to audiovisual performances, immersive installations, and digital art. She is also co-founder of Clon_E, an art collective created in Bologna with multimedia artist Silvia Parolini, devoted to hybrid and interactive artistic research. ​​*** ​Come Early to Elevate Your Experience with Adaptogenic Foods and Teas ​Reforesters Laboratory is an experimental adaptogen cafe and sound clinic located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We utilize music – including spatial, sub-bass-centered, and organic instrumentation – along with breathwork, meditation, art, plant care and adaptogenic, nutritional foods + beverages to cultivate kindness—both physical and spiritual. We aim to create an environment that offers peace, space, and clarity, helping people understand the connections between themselves, their communities, and the world around them. To that end, we offer "pay what you can" ticket options on all events and classes.