Sulla Lingua + Anthony Pateras (solo)

11 November 2025

Sulla Lingua is the world’s only Australian-Italian electroacoustic noise rock trio, featuring Anthony Pateras (tētēma/PIVIXKI) on electronics, Stefano Pilia (Zu, Rokia Traoré, Massimo Volume) on guitar and Riccardo La Foresta on drums and his own creation, the Drummophone.

Sulla Lingua in Italian means ‘on the tongue’ or ‘on language’, which summarises the band’s high/lo aesthetics – they could be referring to Roland Barthes or saluting Gene Simmons, but they still haven’t decided. Both seem fitting to their trance-y harmonics and heavy grooves mixed with psychoacoustic electronics and cinematic textures.

Their debut album ON recalls the radical, contradictory first statements of music nerds’ past. It proposes invention, challenging yet weirdly catchy, as an energised salve for messed-up times. It recalls slowly moshing at a musique concrète diffusion, or perhaps being lost deep in philosophical thought at some kind of sludge rock fest.

Sulla Lingua will be prefaced with a solo piano performance by composer Anthony Pateras.

Opening set

Anthony Pateras

Anthony Pateras is the composer of 90+ musical works, performing hundreds of concerts in Europe, Australasia & the USA over the last 25 years.

Uncommonly spanning classical, improvisational, experimental rock & underground electronic genres, he’s released 50+ albums on labels such as Tzadik, Editions Mego & Shelter Press, while soundtracking films screened at festivals such as Cannes, Rotterdam & Sundance.

He’s also collaborated with avant-metal icons (Mike Patton, Stephen O’Malley), distinguished writers (Sylvère Lotringer, Christos Tsiolkas), top-tier orchestras (LA Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, ACO) & contributed sound work to exhibitions at Martin-Gropius-Bau, SFMOMA, Haus Konstruktiv & Centre Pompidou.

Anthony Pateras is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia.

Performance

Performance

Tuesday 11 November 2025
6:30pm

Location

Phoenix Central Park
49 O'Connor St, Chippendale

Tickets

Free, by ballot only

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Ballot draw date: Tuesday 4 November 2025

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