Ultra Club with KLANG — aya + J. LUDVIG III + EMMA

Ultra Club con KLANG The ULTRA CLUB section of the Romaeuropa Festival once again intertwines its path with KLANG, a curatorial platform long dedicated to the exploration and dissemination of other, lateral, and unclassifiable sonic worlds. For years, KLANG has operated as a sensitive antenna for new forms of musical and sonic research: a practice of listening and mapping that spans radical artistic identities, off-axis trajectories, and languages that move beyond recognisable formats and conventions. A continuous investigation into those who make experimentation their grammar and risk their form—less to redefine what music is, than to push toward what it can still become. For this new collaboration, Ultra Club x KLANG constructs a night that moves between emotional tension, electronic mutation, sonic writing, and genre collisions: a living, unstable landscape crossed by visions that escape categorisation. In the line-up: aya Among the most unpredictable and magnetic voices of the present, aya arrives with a sonic practice that moves through club culture, fragments of internet aesthetics, embodied memory, and post-hardcore drifts, turning every set and live performance into a constantly combusting material. Released on prestigious labels such as Hyperdub, Tri Angle, Wisdom Teeth, Astral Plane, and co-founder of YCO, aya has developed over the years a highly personal, abrasive, and deeply emotional language, capable of fusing deconstruction and physical intensity into ever-shifting forms. Following the acclaimed debut im hole and the release of the new album hexed! (which reached the top ten of major 2025 album rankings), aya confirms herself as one of the most radical and necessary presences on the contemporary scene: visionary, unstable, impossible to predict. Ludvig III The solo alias of Danish musician and drummer Jonathan Jull Ludvigsen, J. Ludvig III is a project that dismantles expectations and fixed identities, moving between emotional songwriting, melodic tension, experimental production, and an imaginary touching emo, hardcore, alt-metal, and warped pop. After emerging on the contemporary jazz scene with Athletic Progression, Ludvigsen has reshaped his path into a personal, unformatted trajectory. With EMOTAN —an intense, vulnerable, and powerfully mutating album—he presents a sonic universe shaped by loss, rupture, and transformation, where voice, distortion, space, and emotional impact coexist in precarious balance. A live performance that is at once implosion and release, built on rare sensitivity and a magnetic stage presence. EMMA Born in Germany and raised in Ruvo di Puglia, EMMA (Alessandro Muscogiuri) translates wide-ranging influences into a visceral sound, driven by both raw emotion and a fierce connection to the present. He quickly made a name for himself in the Italian underground scene with his first two records, “ERA” and “ERA LA FINE” (2023). The project’s power instantly exploded live with explosive debuts at major festivals like MI AMI, Poplar, Ypsigrock, and Spring Attitude, further solidifying his presence with “Guerra dei baci” —a special collaborative project with LAMANTE for the Dr. Martens Fest. Following his first national Club Tour (where he shared the stage with global hyperpop star 2HOLLIS), EMMA released his latest album, “ERA L’INIZIO”, on May 22nd. The record was premiered at MI AMI Festival with the provocative live-manifesto “!!!UCCIDI EMMA!!!” (!!!KILL EMMA!!! ), a bold critique targeting the corporate mechanics of today’s music industry. The summer tour that followed cemented his project both in Italy and abroad, featuring a double date at Festival La Cité in Lausanne and a show in Lucerne. Key highlights include performing at Samuel’s (Subsonica) Floating Fest, a set at Terraviva Festival (powered by Rolling Stone Italia), and a prestigious opening slot for the legendary The Prodigy on the main stage of the AMA Festival. In EMMA’s songs, ghosts and shadows chase each other over anxiety-inducing beats, yet a profound sense of raw humanity always breaks through, fighting to be heard. Dark electronics and a demonic flow, engineered to carve a bottomless pit straight into our emotions. A night conceived as a passage: between club and performance, matter and memory, between what we recognise and what has yet to be named.