Cluster #41 w/ Stefano Pilia – Composer / Performer. Concert

Labor Neunzehn is delighted to invite you to an intimate solo live set by musician and composer Stefano Pilia. Join us for a unique concert experience at our space in Alt-Treptow, where Pilia will perform his distinctive sound in a close and personal setting.

Thursday, October 9th, 2025
20:00 DOORS 20:30 EVENT STARTS
Location: Labor Neunzehn
Kiefholzstr.19/20
12435 Alt-Treptow, Berlin
Important! TICKETS: Attendance strictly limited – entry only with confirmed registration and completed payment via our CONTACT FORM (link below)

Stefano Pilia presents for the first time in solo the compositions of his acclaimed latest works Spiralis Aurea and Lacinia in an original adaptation for electric guitar and electronics.The performance through execution, improvisation and practices inherent to his instrumental and electroacoustic research developed over the years, recontextualizes the poetics of these two works in a broader and more visionary formal polarity: an acousmatic dramaturgy between logos and chaos.

BIO STEFANO PILIA

Stefano Pilia is a guitar player, producer and composer born in Genoa and based in Bologna. His work has become progressively concerned with researching the sculptural properties of sound as well as sound’s relationship with space, memory and the suspension of time. Pilia explores these points of focus through instrumental practice and investigations into the recording and production process. He is one of the founding members (alongside Valerio Tricoli and Claudio Rocchetti) of the seminal group 3/4HadBeenEliminated, a project that synthesises improvisational, electro-acoustical and avant-rock sensibilities.
Pilia predominantly plays as a soloist though collaborates extensively. though his multifaceted practice has also led to an active involvement in a host of other wide-ranging projects. Since 2010 Pilia has been a member of psychedelic quartet In Zaire, a focal contributor to the BGP trio, alongside David Grubbs and Andrea Belfi. Additionally, since 2009, Pilia has been a founder member of il Sogno del Marinaio, a trio made up of legendary Minutemen bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen). He currently plays in Spiralis Aurea ensembles with guitarist Alessanda Novaga, Adrian Utley (Portishead) and the cellists Giuseppe Franchellucci and Mattia Cipolli, in Sulla Lingua a trio with Anthony Pateras and
Riccardo La Foresta and with the violinist Silvia Tarozzi quintet. As well as these myriad projects, Pilia is lead guitarist for celebrated Malian singer Rokia Traorè (since 2012), of the cult seminal band Massimo Volume (2008-2016) and for the longstanding cult Italian band Afterhours (since 2015).

In an impressive range of work and different contexts Pilia has collaborated with several artists and musicians such as Katia and Marielle Labeque, David Tibet, John Duncan, Zu, Oren Ambarchi, John Parish, Fire Orchestra!, Erik Kessel, Oliver Mann, Gianluigi Toccafondo, Scanner, WuMing, Phill Niblock, Z’ev, Starfuckers, Manuel Mota, David Maranha and many others. Since several years he has been involved in silent movies live soundtracking frequently comissioned by Home Movies, Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and Cinema Ritrovato festival of Bologna. His discography, which currently stands at over forty recordings, has been released on a number of well established record labels
(Die-Schachtel, Maple Death, Improved, Blue Chopsticks, Black Truffle). He has played extensivly all over Europe, United States, Australia and Africa

Cluster is a new-music series devoted to the investigation of sound and notation, which provides musicians and composers with an exchange area in Berlin, at the crossroad of compositional and performance practices.