Nicola Ratti is a versatile musician and sound designer who has been working in various experimental fields for many years. His sound production creates systems that take shape from repetition and dilation, with a focus on the construction of environments that gravitate in relation to the space and architecture we inhabit. Born in Milan in 1978, he has performed solo or in other ensembles in Europe, North America, Russia, and Japan, and his albums have been released by several international labels. Among others, he has the following collaborative projects to his credit as a musician: Bellows with Giuseppe Ielasi, NR/MA com Masato Egashira, What We Do When in Silence with Alessandra Novaga and Enrico Malatesta, and Superpaesaggio with Malatesta and Attila Faravelli. His works cross different spheres starting from theater, as the main context, and spanning cinema, performing arts, radio, and sound art. A member and co-founder of Standards, a cultural center active in Milan between 2015 and 2022, in 2024 he founded LL edizioni, a cultural production and organization platform through which he has released his latest solo album Automatic Popular Music.

With a degree in Set Design and Stagecraft from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, while still a student Andrea Sanson began working in the electrician’s department at the Teatro La Fenice and carried out his first projects there. He began his experience in the field of opera as an assistant to Fabio Barettin, Alessandro Carletti, and Bruno Poet, then continued his research in the field of dance, experimental theater, and performance in contexts such as the Venice Biennale, the independent production center Spazio Aereo, working with artists including Claudia Castellucci, Silvia Costa, OHT, Marta Bellu/Trifoglio, and Gloria Dorliguzzo. In 2017 he began working with Societas Raffaello Sanzio as a lighting technician and operator in the tour of the shows Democrazia in America, La vita nuova, Sul concetto di volto nel Figlio di Dio, Buster, Bros, Il terzo Reich and Berenice by Romeo Castellucci.