Friday 28 June 2024 the Castiglioni and Donatoni rooms of the Steam Factory of Milan (via Procaccini 4) host the event What music for the future?with meetings and concerts that lead to reflections on relationships of today’s music with technology and digital, on its ethical dimension and its connections with urgent social issues such as that of the ecological transition. Reflections on one music theory not intended as grammar or syntax of musical language but as a hypothesis on its social function, on its relationship with man and naturewith technology, with diversity and with the past, in a future perspective.
Electronic music, artificial intelligence, multimedia, connections with pop, collective improvisation, new ways of fruition are the central themes of the events and reflections proposed during the day, which includes a program of performance, installations and a conference full of speeches of some young composers who are among the most sensitive to the themes mentioned and thinkers who have accumulated reflections on these themes resulting from a dense experience of life and thought.
Below is the conference programme What Music for the Future? Reflections on a Theory of Today’s Musicwhich takes place in Sala Castiglioni from 10.00 to 16.00.
- 10.00 am – Maria Fratelliinstitutional greetings
- 10.15 am – Sandro Gorlipresentation of the conference
- 10.30 am – Angelo Folettointroduction to the works
- 10.40 am – Massimiliano Baggio, The role of training for the musician of the future
- 11.00 am – Giuliano Corti, Inhabiting music: for an ecology of listening
- 11.20 am – coffee break
- 11.40 am – Salvatore Natoli, Nature and Artifice
- 12.00 pm – Heloisa Amaral, Engaging audiences beyond wonder and knowledge
- 12.20 pm – Daniele Ghisi, Making monsters
- 12.40pm – lunch break
- 2.30 pm – Alexander Schubert, Compound identities
- 2.50 pm – Viktoriia Vitrenko, Music as a mirror of society: accessibility, commitment and political expression in contemporary music
- 3.10 pm – David Antunez, Dialogue with the interpreter: LReading, memory and listening in musical composition
- 3.30 pm – Participants’ speeches
- 4.00 pm – Conclusion of work
From 5.00 pm to 9.30 pm the Donatoni and Castiglioni rooms, but also the entrance and the stairs, host a concert program: below are all the times and protagonists.
- 5.00 pm, Donatoni Room – Pierpaolo Dinapoliguitars (Clinker for acoustic and electronic guitar + Coves for electric and electronic guitar by Matteo Tundo); Cut offelectronic music; Marina Boselli euphonium (Germinations for euphonium + Grafts for euphonium and electronics)
- 6.00 pm, Donatoni Room – Alexander Schubert (Soulvideo projection)
- 6.30 pm, entrance, stairs and Castiglioni Room – Daniele Ghisi (La Fabrique des Monstres, installation)
- 7.30 pm, Donatoni Room – Maria Grazia Bellocchiopiano (Memory and Stain for living room with small piano Of Yukiko Watanabe + Klavierstück XVI (vom Freitag aus Licht) Of Karlheinz Stockhausen + The fig and the flyfor piano and electronics by José Manuel López López)
- 8.00 pm, Sala Castiglioni – Aperitif offered by Divertimento Ensemble
- 8.45pm, Donatoni Room – Neko3 Ensemble: Fei Nie, keyboards; Kalle Hakosalo, percussion; Lorenzo Colombo, percussion (Angel Death Traps for ensemble, lights and electronics by Alexander Schubert)
The conference has free admission. upon registration via e-mail; Entrance to the concerts is paid with a ticket costing 12 euros (reduced 3 euros) in advance online registration. More information via e-mail.
