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Filmmaker Mike Calandra Achode and DJ and music producer Francesco Cucchi recount their first-hand experience with the three attitudes the Italian cultural sector takes on to defend itself from experimentation, diversity, and multicultural avant-gardism.

Milan-based activist, radio DJ, and journalist Sonia Garcia sheds light on the cultural and musical background of her community-healing project (and radio show) SAYRI, a politicized space for queer latinx celebration in the context of Italian clubbing.

Taking cues from his interdisciplinary and research-based project Turbo Sud, visual artist and music producer Agostino Quaranta unearths the almost forgotten memories of electronic experiments made with pizzica pizzica, in the Southeast of Italy.

What was the role played by the Italian-American community in the U.S. in the development of disco music? Reflecting on the Italian diaspora’s cultural impact could foster a less toxic debate on the presence of ethnic minorities in the Italian peninsula.

Life in Milan through a foreigner’s eyes: A mix of indifference to the Other, social invisibility, and Italy’s dependence on cultural artifacts imported from overseas.

This episode of our 2021 video series is a musical conversation between two piano players. The video looks for situations of duality in the spaces around us. In finding each other, the protagonists find new hope for the second year of the pandemic.

In the first episode of the podcast series «You Are Here!» trumpeter Paul Hübner meets two keyboard players, Liz Kosack and Christoph Ogiermann, for a shared musical indulgence.

In the second episode of the podcast series «You Are Here!» trumpeter Paul Hübner connects with performance artist David Helbich, on electronic instruments, and Koto player Naoko Kikuchi.