Festival MusicMediale 2025: the fourth edition, from the Municipale to the cloister

From 21 June to 6 July 2025 the fourth edition of the Festival MusicMediale, the Nicolini Conservatory’s series devoted to contemporary music, sound experimentation and digital languages, crossed Piacenza: a chamber opera in its world premiere, concerts, immersive installations, open lectures, a panel, a masterclass and a projection-mapping finale.

We looked after the festival’s artistic coordination, with Gianmarco Romiti as artistic coordinator. The finale’s projection mapping we signed together with Ali Hosseini and Riccardo Dapelo.

The programme

• 21 June — I fili dell’anima, a chamber opera with video and electronics by Daniele Delogu to a libretto by Greta Brigati, in its world premiere at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, co-produced by the Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza and the Nicolini Conservatory.
• 23 June — Folksongs from Inner Space, in the Seminary courtyard: Gianluca Petrella on trombone, Serena Ferrara on vocals, Lucio Ferrara on guitar, Massimiliano Rolff on bass, Tony Arco on drums and percussion, Seyed Ali Hosseini on live electronics.
• 24 June — Cosmophon, an audiovisual installation in the XNL Musica Ambisonic Room, inside the room’s sphere of loudspeakers.
• 25 June — Voci_Trame_Memorie, installations and a concert in the cloisters of the Galleria Ricci Oddi, curated by Tony Arco and Alessandro Ratoci.
• 26 June — Ambiguità mahleriane, open lectures with guided listening by the philosopher Carlo Serra, in the Conservatory’s Auditorium.
• 26 and 27 June — textural_, the electroacoustic composition by Riccardo Filianoti and Michele Violi, in the Ambisonic Room.
• 29 June to 3 July — two installations: Ali Hosseini’s E tu? at Spazio ’694, on artificial intelligence and art, and Alice Brunelli’s Voci silenziate in the church of Sant’Ilario, on violence against women.
• 1 July — the panel on applied research in music, with the PhD students Luca Frigo and Andrea Losi, in the hall of the Fondazione di Piacenza e Vigevano.
• 4 and 5 July — Artemi Maria Gioti’s masterclass on artificial intelligence that plays with musicians, at XNL Musica; on the evening of the 5th her concert BIAS in the Conservatory’s Salone, with Charen de Carolis at the piano and Alice Brunelli on bass clarinet.
• 6 July — the finale in the Conservatory’s cloister: Fanfare for the Horses Square for double quintet and percussion, then the façade in projection mapping.

The finale

On the evening of 6 July the Conservatory’s façade came alive with abstract, geometric images, fused with an electronic soundtrack. We tell it separately, with the photos: MusicMediale 2025, the Nicolini’s façade in projection mapping.

The year after, the festival grew again: MusicMediale 2026, ten days across galleries and theatres, from Piacenza to Milan.

The programme: Visit Piacenza and Libertà, June 2025. On the cover, the festival graphic.