Manticore is a chimera having the head of a man (often with horns), the body of a lion and the tail of a dragon or scorpion, from this concept it was born the project with the same name, an idea of Giovanni Lami and Carolina Martines. Manticora Editions is a label but also a carrier of several work-in-progress proposals from the two artists, expressed together or individually.
Currently it consists in a live set (Giovanni) and live hybrid set (Carolina) blended together, or in an experimental b2b dj set which cross their different sound backgrounds.
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* Giovanni Lami *
Sound artist and musician who has worked within soundscape and sound-ecology boundaries since 2009/10. Lami immerses himself in the phenomenon of magnetism with unrestrained curiosity and regularly wrestles surprising insights out of it. His research is related to the study of resonant surfaces in the field, degradation processes and the limit/interferences of each device used to record or reproduce sound. In 2016, with Enrico Malatesta and Glauco Salvo, he founded MU, an independent association devoted to sound experiences. In 2022, he joined MAGMA, developing the Elementi series and other events in his area. In 2023 with Carolina Martines, he founded Manticora Editions.
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* Carolina Martines *
After visual arts studies focused on photography, in 2019 she co-founded the Bolognese collective Undicesimacasa. In recent years she has driven herself to musical research, promotion of contemporary music and the practice of DJing. Her sets, eclectic and unpredictable, cannot be placed within any specific genre as they are ephemeral and changing narratives between different sounds. In 2023 she started collaborating with Elementi festival, promoted by the cultural associations Magma and MU and founded the mixtape label Manticora Editions.
