Sara Persico & Mika Oki present Sphaîra

Sara Persico and Mika Oki embarked on an adventurous audiovisual collaboration inspired by Sara’s album, which features field recordings from the experimental concrete theatre built by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.

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Sara Persico is a Berlin-based, Naples born sound artist, vocalist & DJ. Persico cut her teeth experimenting on the fringes of Naples's fiery underground scene,while finishing her academic music studies and developing a technique that would integrate her voice with analogue electronics, field recordings, and samples. She presented her music in festival and venues like Ballroom Blitz Beirut, CTM Festival, Codex Club, documenta fifteen, Ormside Projects, Dancity Festival, Radical DB, among others.

Mika Oki is a visual artist, Dj and producer born in Paris. With a background in sculpture and electro-acoustic music, she explore the notion of intangible spaces and emotional landscapes through AV installations, music and mixes.

Like a sculptor who knows that the slightest miscalculated move of a chisel could damage the totality of an artwork, Mika Oki’s selections elude great mastery and undeniable preparation. Doing wonders in her many radio shows, it’s difficult to realise her taste in rumbles and undeniable love for sounds from across the Channel (drum and bass, UK garage, 2-step, grime...) before seeing her on the dancefloor. Never hesitating to alternate a90s dance anthem with an obscure juke track, she also manages to gather seemingly disparate and conflicting elements together, creating an incredible coherence. Percussive but generous, erudite yet uninhibited, she pieces together unique mixes that never cease to surprise.