as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2025 festival

“To break the banks, to cross over, to transcend language and step on stage in order to endanger every beginning and every end. We must transform. Alone, as one, and together.”

Alone, not lonely is a solo performance by Antonio Raia, structured through its own sonic dramaturgy and shaped by the choice of instruments, which varies in response to the hosting venue.
At Fabbrica Europa sax, chalumeau, and waterphone will dialogue with the works of Marino Marini and with the design, architecture and light of the Museum.

Antonio Raia is an Italian composer, improviser, and saxophonist born in Naples. He is passionate about the relationship between music and other art forms and resists being labeled within a specific genre. Since 2013, he has been active on the Italian and European scenes, performing at music festivals, art galleries, site-specific performances, and sound installations. Since 2021, he has also worked in film as a composer for soundtracks.
In 2019, renowned American music critic Phil Freeman described “Asylum”, an album released by Clean Feed Records, as “wind through metal” in an article published in the prestigious music magazine “The Wire”. That same year, “Blow UP!” named “Asylum” “Album of the Month” in its December issue. In March 2022, “Rumore” magazine featured Raia in an article by Antonio Briozzo, calling him “the future that’s about to begin”.
In 2023, Raia published the book La memoria bucata, the result of five years of research into the poetics of artist and theater-maker Antonio Neiwiller, who passed away in 1993. The work includes a sound composition featuring Neiwiller’s voice in dialogue with Raia’s music, and is enriched by graphite drawings by Rosario Vicidomini and eight previously unpublished pages by Neiwiller, generously provided by his family.

photo (detail): Tommaso Vitiello