Terraforma

We’re happy to announce that Terraforma EXO returns to Villa Tasca (Villa Tasca) in Palermo this October with a special performance by Abdullah Miniawy Trio (Abdullah Miniawy)

Miniawy is an Egyptian artist, poet, and composer known for his politically charged lyrics and experimental sound. At Terraforma EXO, he presents a trio project with trombonists Jules Regard and Jules Boittin, moving between jazz, Middle Eastern soundscapes, and a deeply performative spirit, balancing urban tension with spiritual depth.

Villa Tasca, with its 8-hectare park stretching along the road from Palermo to Monreale, citrus groves, centuries-old trees, and a 16th-century villa shaped by 19th-century Sicilian Romanticism, provides the perfect setting for Peacock Dreams, an album at the intersection of electronic and baroque sound.

Palermo marks the second chapter of TERRAFORMA EXO 2026, our international platform exploring sound as a tool for artistic, ecological, and collective research—following the New York chapter with MoMA PS1 and preceding the Milan chapter with Fondation Cartier.

We’re happy to announce that Terraforma EXO returns to Villa Tasca in Palermo this October with a special performance by Abdullah Miniawy Trio Abdullah Miniawy

Miniawy is an Egyptian artist, poet, and composer known for his politically charged lyrics and experimental sound. At Terraforma EXO, he presents a trio project with trombonists Jules Regard and Jules Boittin, moving between jazz, Middle Eastern soundscapes, and a deeply performative spirit, balancing urban tension with spiritual depth.

Villa Tasca, with its 8-hectare park stretching along the road from Palermo to Monreale, citrus groves, centuries-old trees, and a 16th-century villa shaped by 19th-century Sicilian Romanticism, provides the perfect setting for Peacock Dreams, an album at the intersection of electronic and baroque sound.

Palermo marks the second chapter of TERRAFORMA EXO 2026, our international platform exploring sound as a tool for artistic, ecological, and collective research—following the New York chapter with MoMA PS1 and preceding the Milan chapter with Fondation Cartier.

We are thrilled to announce that this summer Terraforma EXO lands in New York for the first time.
We’re partnering with MoMA PS1’s iconic outdoor music series, Warm Up, for two special evenings — July 24 & 25 — featuring talks, film screenings, and the sounds and spirit of our festival.

Co-organized with MoMA PS1, the weekend centres on a landmark Wackie’s Music Showcase featuring Lloyd “Bullwackie” Barnes, founder of the legendary Bronx reggae label Wackies, alongside Mark Ernestus, founding member of Basic Channel, with vocalists Claudette “Lovejoy” Brown and Wayne Jarrett, for the opening of Warm Up 2026 on July 24. A long-standing presence within the Terraforma universe, Ernestus has performed several times at the festival, most recently in 2022 with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Previously, he played MoMA PS1’s Warm Up in 2019 and 2006 (as Rhythm & Sound).

Basic Channel began to reissue hard-to-find Wackies releases in 2002, as part of Ernestus’s work tracing the deep connections between dub, techno, and diasporic musical traditions. The showcase at MoMA PS1 brings the quarter-century dialogue between Bullwackie and Ernestus into sharp focus, weaving together New York City dub and reggae with the dub techno sound each helped define. The full weekend programme will be announced in the coming weeks.

Now in its 28th edition, Warm Up remains one of New York’s most important gathering points for experimental, electronic, and club music. This collaboration marks Terraforma EXO’s first activation in the United States, ahead of upcoming projects in Palermo this October and Milan this November.

MoMA PS1 & various locations, New York
July 24 & 25
momaps1.org/warmup