TICKETS
NEXTONES 2022 ph. Piercarlo Quecchia

ABOUT

THE PROJECT

Nextones is an international festival of music, audiovisual arts and research. Taking place in the evocative area of the Ossola Valley, its cornerstone is Tones Teatro Natura, a major environmental redevelopment project by Tones on the Stones that transformed a disused quarry into a theater immersed in nature.
Since its first edition, the festival has combined an international music proposal and site-specific performances with a series of activities devoted to the discovery of the natural landscape of the Ossola Valley and to the interaction between artists, the public and the territory, including hikes in the Uriezzo Gorge, talks, screenings, deep listening workshops, sound meditations and artistic residencies. Over the years, the stage at Tones Teatro Natura featured performances by the likes of Nicolas Jaar, Nina Kraviz, Richie Hawtin, Squarepusher, and VTSS.

TONES TEATRO NATURA

Tones on the Stones has converted an old and abandoned quarry into a permanent theatre enveloped in nature. The Roncino quarry is located in Oira, a hamlet in the Ossola Valley surrounded by woods, terraced vineyards and ancient villages of stone built houses. The surrounding landscape shows just how deeply tied the history of this area is to quarrying and to the cutting and carving of stone, as witnessed by the extensive use of stone in local architecture. This is the historical, economic and cultural heritage that Tones on the Stones has always tried to highlight and expand upon.
The conversion of an industrial workplace into a cultural site is also seen as an opportunity to develop an area which already has a strong tourist vocation. Transforming a ‘critical issue’ into an opportunity, promoting the combination of Culture and Nature in a historical moment that has effectively exposed the fragile nature of urban fabric, strikes us as an interesting and highly motivating challenge.
The new Theatre will become the home base for Tones on the Stones, creating a space for so called ‘site-specific’ productions and international co-production projects, as well as spaces to host workshops for training artists and for courses open to everyone on environmental sustainability issues.
The Theatre will stimulate Tones on the Stones in its mission to further pursue research into digital technologies applicable to the production of outdoor live performances which will give rise to productions of large ‘immersive’ theatrical performances and to audio-visual experimental projects and installations with artists in residence. Above all, we now have a space, a real ‘shot in the arm’ for us, where we can meet, compare and create, and in which ‘digital’ is totally at the service of ‘analogue’ and where ‘digital’, as never before, manifestly appears to be the most important aspect of the whole creative process.

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ARTISTS

Richie Hawtin
Courtesy
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PROGRAM

5.30PM
Hatis Noit
Orridi di Uriezzo

Hatis Noit is a London-based Japanese artist and singer who is the creator of a deeply emotional yet avant-garde music, where gagaku, Opera, Bulgarian chants and pop find a perfect astral conjunction, thanks in part to a visceral and unique voice that has captivated artists such as David Lynch and won praise from publications such as the New York Times and the Guardian surrounding her latest album Aura.

Morning
Hiking with Rayon Vert and lunch at Rifugio supported by TEVA
Rifugio Monte Zeus

Rayon Vert was born in 2017 as a research led clothing line and design consultancy believing in the principles of open manufacturing. For Nextones, the collective will lead a hiking along the “Marmitte dei Giganti” path, terminating at Rifugio Monte Zeus, where participants will cook a dish and have lunch. Rifugio Monte Zeus is located in the Antigorio Valley at 781 m above sea level.

12 - 7PM
Next Camp
Radio Banda Larga
rbl.media is a community web-radio active in different locations in Turin and Berlin since 2012. Eclectic, diverse and lively, RBL delivers quality live selections without stylistic boundaries.
8PM
Gang of Ducks Soundsystem
Tones Teatro Natura

Gang of Ducks is a multidisciplinary platform from Turin.
Gang of Ducks Soundsystem will celebrate the platform’s ten years anniversary with two special dj sets.

9PM
Pontus Lidberg
Tones Teatro Natura

Pontus Lidberg is a Swedish choreographer, director and dancer, author for some of the most important companies such as Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company and Vienna Staatsoper. He will present an excerpt of the new work intended for the Biennale Danza 2023 in a site-specific version together with dancer Paulo Arrais.

10PM
Holy Tongue
Tones Teatro Natura

Holy Tongue is a project of percussionist Valentina Magaletti with producer Al Wootton and Japanese multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artist Susumu Mukai: the trio travel through dub, dance and psychedelia for a high-energy performance bordering on a spiritual experience.

11PM
Stenny
Tones Teatro Natura

Raised in the industrial suburbs of Turin, Stenny is one of the most longeve Ilian Tape affiliates. His research draws from club culture and avant-garde electronics, fusing elements of Techno and Bass Music. He offers an adventurous and versatile DJ set, dodging genre boundaries through precise and intuitive technique.
In 2019, Pitchfork magazine described his debut album ‘Upsurge’ as a counter-argument to the more rigid strains of Techno, “an impressive testament to introspection and personality.”

12:30AM
Courtesy
Tones Teatro Natura

Najaaraq Vestbirk (b. 1987) also known as Courtesy, is a Danish artist based between Copenhagen and Berlin. Her multidisciplinary practice began on the dancefloor, using it as a starting point to
examine the organic relationships formed between strangers, investigating the ways people coalesce
in these transcendent spaces and the intimate exchanges that occupy it. Spanning installation,
composition, DJ sets, performance, photography and video, Vestbirk is highly interested in the liveness and interactive potential of performance, particularly in collective exchange and questioning
ways in which the artist can absolve the line between artist and audience.

12 - 7PM
Radio Banda Larga
Next Camp

rbl.media è una community web-radio attiva in diverse sedi a Torino e Berlino dal 2012. Eclettica, eterogenea e dinamica, RBL propone selezioni live di qualità senza confini stilistici.

8PM
Gang of Ducks Soundsye
Tones Teatro Natura

Gang of Ducks is a multidisciplinary platform from Turin.
Gang of Ducks Soundsystem will celebrate the platform’s ten years anniversary with two special dj sets.

9:30PM
Katatonic Silentio & Lorem
Tones Teatro Natura

Born Mariachiara Troianiello, Katatonic Silentio moves the border between electronic music, performing arts and sound studies. Her sets oscillate between an analog past and a frenetic technological future, mixing concrete, dub and ambient music to arrive at ethereal soundscapes of pure abstraction. Performing alongside the independent artist and researcher Francesco D’Abbraccio as Lorem, a multimedia project using Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence.

10:30PM
Lorenzo Senni
Tones Teatro Natura

Lorenzo Senni, one of Italy’s most celebrated artists, will present a very special live audio-visual performance. He has performed some of the world’s leading cultural institutions and festivals, from Centre Pompidou in Paris to Tate Modern in London, to Sonar and Primavera. A multidisciplinary artist with a punk/hardcore background and now devoted to, among other things, the deconstruction of trance, Senni’s research touches fields as diverse as visual art, fashion, film, theater and television.

11:30PM
VTSS
Tones Teatro Natura

VTSS has quickly established herself as one of the most vital, uncompromising and visible new talents in the electronic music scene. As a DJ VTSS cuts an imposing figure in the upper reaches of big (dark) room, peak-time energy. At the same time, her productions have moved from distinctive, disruptive variations of club music towards a more diverse, highly personal strain of electronica.

01.30AM
Richie Hawtin
Tones Teatro Natura

Richie Hawtin is a genuine original. His critical acclaim spans the creative realm of the fine art community to the technological vanguard. Meanwhile, as a performing artist, he is constantly pushing conceptual frontiers, moving things forward, welcoming as many as he can to ideas and experiences that would have seemed pure science fiction when he began his career.

12 -7PM

Villa Caselli

TBA

20.07
Thursday
5.30PM
Hatis Noit
Orridi di Uriezzo

Hatis Noit is a London-based Japanese artist and singer who is the creator of a deeply emotional yet avant-garde music, where gagaku, Opera, Bulgarian chants and pop find a perfect astral conjunction, thanks in part to a visceral and unique voice that has captivated artists such as David Lynch and won praise from publications such as the New York Times and the Guardian surrounding her latest album Aura.

21.07
Friday
Morning
Hiking with Rayon Vert and lunch at Rifugio supported by TEVA
Rifugio Monte Zeus

Rayon Vert was born in 2017 as a research led clothing line and design consultancy believing in the principles of open manufacturing. For Nextones, the collective will lead a hiking along the “Marmitte dei Giganti” path, terminating at Rifugio Monte Zeus, where participants will cook a dish and have lunch. Rifugio Monte Zeus is located in the Antigorio Valley at 781 m above sea level.

12 - 7PM
Next Camp
Radio Banda Larga
rbl.media is a community web-radio active in different locations in Turin and Berlin since 2012. Eclectic, diverse and lively, RBL delivers quality live selections without stylistic boundaries.
8PM
Gang of Ducks Soundsystem
Tones Teatro Natura

Gang of Ducks is a multidisciplinary platform from Turin.
Gang of Ducks Soundsystem will celebrate the platform’s ten years anniversary with two special dj sets.

9PM
Pontus Lidberg
Tones Teatro Natura

Pontus Lidberg is a Swedish choreographer, director and dancer, author for some of the most important companies such as Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company and Vienna Staatsoper. He will present an excerpt of the new work intended for the Biennale Danza 2023 in a site-specific version together with dancer Paulo Arrais.

10PM
Holy Tongue
Tones Teatro Natura

Holy Tongue is a project of percussionist Valentina Magaletti with producer Al Wootton and Japanese multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artist Susumu Mukai: the trio travel through dub, dance and psychedelia for a high-energy performance bordering on a spiritual experience.

11PM
Stenny
Tones Teatro Natura

Raised in the industrial suburbs of Turin, Stenny is one of the most longeve Ilian Tape affiliates. His research draws from club culture and avant-garde electronics, fusing elements of Techno and Bass Music. He offers an adventurous and versatile DJ set, dodging genre boundaries through precise and intuitive technique.
In 2019, Pitchfork magazine described his debut album ‘Upsurge’ as a counter-argument to the more rigid strains of Techno, “an impressive testament to introspection and personality.”

12:30AM
Courtesy
Tones Teatro Natura

Najaaraq Vestbirk (b. 1987) also known as Courtesy, is a Danish artist based between Copenhagen and Berlin. Her multidisciplinary practice began on the dancefloor, using it as a starting point to
examine the organic relationships formed between strangers, investigating the ways people coalesce
in these transcendent spaces and the intimate exchanges that occupy it. Spanning installation,
composition, DJ sets, performance, photography and video, Vestbirk is highly interested in the liveness and interactive potential of performance, particularly in collective exchange and questioning
ways in which the artist can absolve the line between artist and audience.

22.07
Saturday
12 - 7PM
Radio Banda Larga
Next Camp

rbl.media è una community web-radio attiva in diverse sedi a Torino e Berlino dal 2012. Eclettica, eterogenea e dinamica, RBL propone selezioni live di qualità senza confini stilistici.

8PM
Gang of Ducks Soundsye
Tones Teatro Natura

Gang of Ducks is a multidisciplinary platform from Turin.
Gang of Ducks Soundsystem will celebrate the platform’s ten years anniversary with two special dj sets.

9:30PM
Katatonic Silentio & Lorem
Tones Teatro Natura

Born Mariachiara Troianiello, Katatonic Silentio moves the border between electronic music, performing arts and sound studies. Her sets oscillate between an analog past and a frenetic technological future, mixing concrete, dub and ambient music to arrive at ethereal soundscapes of pure abstraction. Performing alongside the independent artist and researcher Francesco D’Abbraccio as Lorem, a multimedia project using Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence.

10:30PM
Lorenzo Senni
Tones Teatro Natura

Lorenzo Senni, one of Italy’s most celebrated artists, will present a very special live audio-visual performance. He has performed some of the world’s leading cultural institutions and festivals, from Centre Pompidou in Paris to Tate Modern in London, to Sonar and Primavera. A multidisciplinary artist with a punk/hardcore background and now devoted to, among other things, the deconstruction of trance, Senni’s research touches fields as diverse as visual art, fashion, film, theater and television.

11:30PM
VTSS
Tones Teatro Natura

VTSS has quickly established herself as one of the most vital, uncompromising and visible new talents in the electronic music scene. As a DJ VTSS cuts an imposing figure in the upper reaches of big (dark) room, peak-time energy. At the same time, her productions have moved from distinctive, disruptive variations of club music towards a more diverse, highly personal strain of electronica.

01.30AM
Richie Hawtin
Tones Teatro Natura

Richie Hawtin is a genuine original. His critical acclaim spans the creative realm of the fine art community to the technological vanguard. Meanwhile, as a performing artist, he is constantly pushing conceptual frontiers, moving things forward, welcoming as many as he can to ideas and experiences that would have seemed pure science fiction when he began his career.

23.07.2023
Sunday
12 -7PM

Villa Caselli

TBA

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TICKETS

Tickets available for the single nights of friday, july 21 and saturday, july 22. Weekend pass for both nights also available.

Purchase your tickets on DICE

 

Nextones shall be held even in the presence of mildly unfavorable weather circumstances. However, should these conditions escalate to a level that compromises the safety of individuals or renders the execution of the performances technically infeasible, the production team shall be entitled to suspend or reschedule the shows. In case of a cancellation due to adverse weather conditions, ticket holders will be eligible for a refund unless a minimum of 90 non-consecutive minutes of the performance has been completed.

VENUES

TONES TEATRO NATURA, OIRA
Tones Teatro Natura is the new great project of Tones on the Stones, born in 2020, in full lockdown, which through a process of environmental redevelopment has begun to transform the former industrial site of Cava Roncino in a permanent theater surrounded by nature. The former Gneiss Quarry is located in Oira, a small village in the municipality of Crevoladossola, among woods, terraced vineyards and ancient stone villages of the Ossola Valley. The surrounding landscape shows how much the history of the territory is deeply linked to the extraction of stone, to its processing evident in the wide use in rural architecture. A historical, economic and cultural heritage that Tones on the Stones has always tried to tell and enhance.
ORRIDI DI URIEZZO
The Orridi di Uriezzo, also called 'The Grand Canyon of Piedmont', are a series of gorges carved into granite by streams that in the past flowed downstream of the Toce Glacier. The narrow valleys, the tortuous tunnels and the gorges that you can admire today were formed once the glaciers disappeared. The drying up of the various streams fed by the glaciers has left space for a real canyon that today can be visited on foot.
NEXTONES 2022 ph. Piercarlo Quecchia
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GETTING THERE

By plane

Milan Malpensa Airport is located 95km from Nextones. From the airport you can take a shuttle to reach Domodossola.

Navetta Malpensa – Domodossola

By train

Domodossola Station
Novara – Domodossola line
Milano – Domodossola line

trenitalia.com

By bus

Busses leave from DOMODOSSOLA Train Station. The closest stop to the festival venue is PONTEMAGLIO. The public bus service schedule is limited, you may not be able to reach the festival by bus at all times. It is recommended to check in advance the Domodossola-Cascata del Toce bus line to plan your trip.

Domodossola – Cascata del Toce

By Taxi

Piazza Matteotti, 23 – Domodossola
Tel. +39 03242740

By Car

Satellite coordinates: 46.177417, 8.321972
Superstrada del Sempione, follow signs for Crodo, SS 659, exit marked Oira.

Looking for a ride? Or having extra space in your vehicle?
Embrace the green soul of Nextones and support carpooling.

Click the button below and indicate if you look for a ride or you can offer one, from where and when.

carpooling

Parking

The car park is located very close to the quarry, in front of the Caseificio Ossolano plant at Oira.
Superstrada > exit for Oira > take the road running parallel to the Caseificio Ossolano

CAMPING

CAMPING

Immerse yourself in Nextones’ spaces and mindset for a 360° experience at the Camping.

Also here we invite you to take care of your personal belongings – wastes included, to respect nature and people working around you.

 

CHECK-IN

Friday 21st: 10am – 10pm

If you arrive outside these timings please inform us at camping@nextones.eu so that we can welcome you!

Complete the pre check-in online no later than July 18th!

Check-in

RULES & FAQ’s

CHECK OUT

Sunday 23: 10am – 12pm