On December 7 and 8, the Winter Festival returns to Perugia with a program dedicated to contemporary sound research. The presence of Alessandro Cortini marks one of the central moments of this edition.

The Dancity Winter Festival 2025 returns to one of the most evocative venues in the city of Perugia: the San Francesco al Prato Auditorium, a space that over the years has become the natural stage for the most immersive projects conceived by the cultural association of the same name. Within this unique architectural setting, the festival offers a path that interweaves sound, research, and live performance, with its twentieth anniversary now approaching.

This year’s edition brings together a selection of artists working along the boundary between electronic music, experimentation, and contemporary visions. Among them, the presence of Alessandro Cortini (IT / Mute Records) stands out — a name that needs no introduction, yet deserves a precise context.

Considered one of the most influential figures in contemporary electronics, Cortini has crafted a unmistakable musical language: a form of writing that combines timbral stratification, emotional tension, and an almost sculptural approach to sonic material. His ability to transform synthetic impulses into inner narratives has made him an international reference point, recognized by both audiences and critics.

In 2020, he became the first — and to this day the only — Italian to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nine Inch Nails, an accolade that cements his decisive contribution to the global musical landscape.

In the autumn of 2025, he also created the soundtrack for the mini-series Il Mostro, directed by Stefano Sollima and distributed on Netflix — a work that reached an extremely wide audience and confirmed his ability to shape dense, suspended soundscapes with strong narrative character.

His artistic path traverses different creative geographies: from his years with Nine Inch Nails, where he helped redefine the band’s electronic dimension, to his releases on Mute Records, among the most significant in the label’s recent catalog. His work constantly moves between intimacy and intensity, between form and dissolution.

His performance at the Dancity Winter Festival 2025 fits within this same horizon: an experience that prioritizes listening, immersion, and a relationship with space. An event that reaffirms the festival’s desire to offer not just concerts, but moments of heightened perception — where sound, architecture, and shared presence become part of a single artistic gesture.

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