About us

In 2020, Med­imex was the first music con­fer­ence to go fully digit­al with almost 100 hours of streamed events and a social media reach of 350,000 con­tacts, with a total of over 100,000 views, 1,500 users tak­ing part in online work­shops and webinars, 130,000 inter­ac­tions on Face­book, 140,000 on Ins­tagram and 50,000 on Twit­ter.

In 2021 Med­imex brings great music back to Taranto through sev­er­al events that made it mem­or­able: work­shops, show­cases, Meet the Author gath­er­ings, art camps, exhib­i­tions. A unique oppor­tun­ity to meet nation­al and inter­na­tion­al music stake­hold­ers, exchange exper­i­ences and shar­ing insights into the world of music with them and to grow togeth­er. As always, Med­imex will be open to the entire pop­u­la­tion of Taranto and bey­ond.

Med­imex 2022 marks the return of great live shows with con­certs by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in Taranto (19 June) and The Chem­ic­al Broth­ers in Bari (14 July) and the return of the event to the Apuli­an cap­it­al where it was born in 2011. A long edi­tion sched­uled from 16 to 19 June in Taranto and from 13 to 15 July in Bari. In addi­tion to the live shows, author meet­ings with the prot­ag­on­ists of Itali­an music, pro­fes­sion­al and net­work­ing activ­it­ies aimed at region­al and nation­al artists and music­al oper­at­ors who, as they will usu­ally host rep­res­ent­at­ives of the main Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al fest­ivals and cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions as well as music schools aimed at those who want to get closer to the world of music and pro­fes­sion­als, show­cases of Apuli­an artists and numer­ous col­lat­er­al activ­it­ies.

The 2023 edi­tion was a very suc­cess­ful one. It recor­ded a great par­ti­cip­a­tion in all the events, a large influx of people to Taranto and received import­ant vis­ib­il­ity in the media. Fur­ther­more, more than 300 oper­at­ors from the music sec­tor par­ti­cip­ated in the pro­fes­sion­al and net­work­ing activ­it­ies. The live shows that saw Echo & the Bunny­men, Diod­ato, The Murder Cap­it­al, Skunk Anan­sie, Tom Morello and The Cult altern­ate on the stage of the seafront rotunda were unfor­get­table and excit­ing; as well as the show­cases at the Spa­ce­port. The spaces of the Uni­ver­sity pulsate with life for pro­fes­sion­al and net­work­ing activ­it­ies which brought a pres­ti­gi­ous rep­res­ent­a­tion of the Itali­an music mar­ket to Taranto to dis­cuss the Music Com­mis­sion, sup­port for the new gen­er­a­tions, the live mar­ket, the record­ing industry, song­writ­ing, pro­tec­tions and rights, fund­ing for the record­ing industry and music in the time of Tik­Tok.