The Four Seasons

 L’Autunno, L’Estate, L’Inverno, La Primavera. Four seasons. Right?

URLAND deconstructs Vivaldi.

Every year, our sound artist Jimi, together with producer/DJ Alberta Balsam, takes on one part of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and creates a unique, electronic adaptation of it. A clash between classical and electronic. A clash between how it used to sound and how it sounds now. The weather isn’t what it used to be. What Vivaldi captured in 1725 as a nature that neatly adhered to four seasons has become fiction: a nostalgic dream image of a world that no longer exists.

In 2028, the pieces will be combined into a single, grandiose full-length performance, perhaps even performed with an orchestra on an offshore drilling platform slowly being flooded… hey, dream big. In any case, it won’t be a tranquil synthesis, but a clash of four seasons that don’t grow softer, but more intense. What does the sensation of climate change sound like? URLAND is searching for the sound of a season we no longer know.

On October 1 and 2, 2026, you’ll see and hear L’Autunno during the Open Studio – Tickets

Last year’s piece, L’Estate (think: a heat wave ending in a massive storm), will also be released online that same week. Presave here.