Concert
Matinée Léo Dupleix, Maria Chavez
October 25 2026, 11.00am
Informazioni
Where
Triennale Milano
Floor –1, Voce Triennale
Tickets
On sale soon
Duration
approx. 120 minutes
A series of acoustic and electro-acoustic concerts curated by Nicola Ratti and conceived for the morning hours—when natural light is at its brightest—Matinée invites attentive, intimate listening. Each event offers sound experiences that differ in language and references, yet are united by a central element: the quality of listening. A mode of listening that interacts with space, time, and light, becoming a moment of suspension and perceptual openness.
For this session we host Léo Dupleix, a composer and musician whose work combines acoustic and electronic elements with a wide range of instruments, and Maria Chavez, an abstract turntablist, sound artist, and DJ whose practice spans different mediums, from improvised performance to visual art. Dupleix presents Resonant Trees, a series of slowly evolving pieces for solo harpsichord tuned in just intonation, where sound and time merge.
Léo Dupleix crafts patiently unfolding, lush music, where timbre and the use of specific tuning and intonation systems take center stage. His compositions span a wide range of instrumentations—blending acoustic and electronic elements—always in pursuit of emotional simplicity and refinement. His 2024 LP, Resonant Trees, released on Black Truffle Records, was hailed as “an album to sit back and marvel at, and surely one of the most stark and beautiful instrumental records of the year.” It also received the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros for Best Experimental Release that same year.
Maria Chavez, born in Lima, Peru, and based in NYC, is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist, and DJ. Coincidence, chance, and failure are themes that unite her work across mediums, including improvised performance, sound and marble sculpture, visual art, book objects, and an extensive history of multi-channel installations. Her approach is rooted in Deep Listening, a form of embodied listening developed by her late mentor, Pauline Oliveros. Maria is the only abstract turntablist in the world who performs with a rare needle known as the RAKE Double Needle. This special device contains two needles on one head, allowing it to read two different segments of a single record at the same time. Her work has been featured and supported by a myriad of institutions over the past decades, including Rewire Festival, Counterflows Festival, Donau Festival, MoMA PS1, The Getty, DOCUMENTA 14, and many more.
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Credits
Cover image: Léo Dupleix, photo by Margot Becka; Maria Chavez, photo by Serena Yang
