Morning Séance
alias Simone Borghi
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Italian composer and musician Simone Borghi, alias Morning Séance, is known for his atmospheric electronic music, which is characterized by flowing and constantly changing sound structures without a clear beginning or end. His music avoids mechanical rhythms and creates a continuously changing soundscape. At HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, his music accompanied Celina Eceiza’s exhibition Ofrenda in a performative presentation. Borghi’s soundscapes harmoniously complemented Eceiza’s textile, thread-based spatial artwork. Eceiza understands her “soft museum” as an open and collaborative place where different senses — especially hearing and feeling — are addressed. Morning Séances’ performance in Eceiza’s metabolic red room activated the work sonically and, in a sense, made it vibrate. This allowed the audience to experience physicality and spatiality in a new way. Both artists address the relationship between body, space, and perception in an expanded space of experience.
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Simone Borghi
graduated with a bachelor’s degree in acousmatic and electroacoustic composition from the Conservatoire Royal de Mons (Belgium) and holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Pisa.
Releases (selection): Eternal life makes your past grow too big, One Instrument, Berlin (2025), The Ambient Cake Factory, Live at ZKM (2024), Buurthuis II, Original movie score (2023), 10:15 PM, Smallforms, Vienna (2023), Reading (2023), La casa e il cosmo, Ombré Corte (2017) / Editorial Cactus (2014).
Concerts/Exhibitions (selection) : ZKM, Karlsruhe, Unsafe&Sounds Festival, Vienna, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Sonic Fever, Ars Electronica, Linz, Performing sounds (ARGEkultur), Salzburg, Magma Fucina Creativa — Lucca (IT), Wearefoundingacity Festival (Zukunftshof), Vienna, Bears in the park, Vienna.
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