Author: Medimex

  • Taranto 2021

    Taranto 2021

    The Med­imex wave returns to Taranto and online. A packed pro­gram of show­cases, author meet­ings, exhib­i­tions, pro­fes­sion­al activ­it­ies, music schools, films and present­a­tions.

    The wave of Med­imex returns to Taranto and online, from 15 to 19 Septem­ber 2021. The Inter­na­tion­al Fest­iv­al & Music Con­fer­ence, pro­moted by Puglia Sounds, the Puglia Region pro­gram for the devel­op­ment of the region­al music sys­tem imple­men­ted by the Teatro Pub­blico Pugliese, will is car­ried out through a busy pro­gram of show­cases, author meet­ings, exhib­i­tions, pro­fes­sion­al activ­it­ies, music schools, films and present­a­tions. A hybrid edi­tion, with in-per­son and stream­ing events, which had change as its cent­ral theme.

    More than 50 events, hun­dreds of guests and artists, includ­ing Lig­abue, Malika Ayane, Gaia, Aiello, Coma_Cose, hos­ted online and in the places of the Uni­ver­sity, the Fusco Theat­er, the Aragonese Castle, the G. Pais­i­ello Con­ser­vat­ory and the Spazi­o­porto . And for oper­at­ors, an entire plat­form designed to facil­it­ate net­work­ing activ­it­ies which can be reached at partecipa.medimex.it.

    The more than fifty Med­imex events are open, free and access­ible in per­son and online. The pro­gram includes numer­ous events ded­ic­ated to music pro­fes­sion­als, train­ing and music enthu­si­asts.

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    Rock, Pop, Indie with Larocca, Gaia Gen­tile, Marmo, Chro­mo­pho­bia, Under­world Vam­pires, Erica Mou, Car­o­lina Bub­bico, Muriki, Stain, Nin­fea

    World music with Rad­ic­anto, Ter­raross, I Tam­burrel­listi di Torre Paduli, Tarantula Gar­gan­ica, Clau­dio Prima & Pro­getto Se. Me., Maria Moramarco, Mas­car­imirì, Mimmo Epi­fani & Josè Bar­ros.

    Jazz with Vince Abbrac­ci­ante, Michele Fazio, Kekko For­n­arelli, Soul Hunters, Roberto Ottavi­ano, Gaetano Par­ti­pilo & Boom Col­lect­ive, Arm­strong and the Moon­walk­ers, Guido Di Leone e Francesca Leone feat Trio Cor­rente

    In col­lab­or­a­tion with Sug­ar Music Pub­lish­ing and the con­sultancy of Ser­penti, 3 days of activ­it­ies took place, 18 hours in total, to which 18 young people (born from 1990 onwards) admit­ted through selec­tion had access. The par­ti­cipants worked very closely with the tutors, in a 1:2 ratio, with par­tic­u­lar atten­tion paid to teach­ing. There are two macro-work areas: one ded­ic­ated to Pro­du­cers and one to Toplines (or melody, for old school lov­ers) and lyr­ics. This is to respond to the cur­rent situ­ation in the world of author­ship. At the end of each day, a les­son in uni­fied classes, with a super tutor. And fur­ther­more, for the most inter­est­ing and deserving, accord­ing to the tutors and Mario Cian­chi (A&R pub­lish­ing of Sug­ar), a pub­lish­ing con­tract with Sug­ar Music Pub­lish­ing.

    Three exhib­i­tions inaug­ur­ated in the city on the occa­sion of the 2021 edi­tion of Med­imex: “Pic­tures of You”, cur­ated by the Cir­colo Foto­grafico Il Cas­tello, in the Muni­cip­al Gal­lery of the Aragonese Castle, open from 15 Septem­ber to 3 Octo­ber; “Kev­in Cum­mins – Joy Divi­sion and Bey­ond”, cur­ated by ONO con­tem­por­ary art, hos­ted by the Nation­al Archae­olo­gic­al Museum of Taranto MArTA from 15 Septem­ber 2021 to 23 Janu­ary 2022. And, again “Musica di Carta – 60 years of music­al news­pa­pers”, exhib­i­tion of Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al themed magazines col­lec­ted by Ern­esto Assante, hos­ted by the Uni­ver­sity of Taranto from 16 to 19 Septem­ber 2021.

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    Fur­ther­more, the Aragonese Castle of the Ioni­an cap­it­al hos­ted the artist­ic-music­al install­a­tion entitled 3D Waves from 15 to 18 Septem­ber 2021, a three-dimen­sion­al work by Her­mes Mangi­alardo, video map­ping cur­ated by Valentina Iac­ov­elli and pro­duced by CONTEMPO Arte e Cul­tura CONTEMPORANEA.

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  • Digit­al Edi­tion 2020

    Digit­al Edi­tion 2020

    The first inter­na­tion­al digit­al music con­fer­ence pro­posed activ­it­ies ded­ic­ated to train­ing and music pro­fes­sion­als with work­shops, insights, webinars, focuses on the inter­na­tion­al scene, music schools and a spe­cial Rock les­son.

    Med­imex D closed with almost 100 hours of stream­ing activ­ity and 350 thou­sand people reached on social net­works. The first inter­na­tion­al digit­al music con­fer­ence, pro­moted by Puglia Sounds, from 3 to 18 June pro­posed activ­it­ies ded­ic­ated to train­ing and music pro­fes­sion­als with work­shops, insights, webinars, focus on the inter­na­tion­al scene, music schools and a spe­cial Rock les­son. Almost 100 hours of stream­ing activ­ity, 350 thou­sand people reached on social net­works, approx­im­ately 70 thou­sand total views recor­ded to date and 1500 users who par­ti­cip­ated in online work­shops and webinars (still avail­able on the medimex.it web­site), 130 thou­sand inter­ac­tions on Face­book, 140 thou­sand on Ins­tagram and 50 thou­sand on Twit­ter. The media cov­er­age was not­able, with around 200 nation­al and region­al news­pa­pers report­ing on the Med­imex D and the indi­vidu­al events.

    Numer­ous guests, Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al, and the top­ics addressed. From the Future of Live Music with Clem­ente Zard (Vivo Con­certi) and Tom­maso Para­diso to Una vita in Stream­ing with Chiara San­toro (Google Italia) and Ghemon, passing through Is the crisis indie? with Clau­dio Fer­rante (Artist First) and Francesco Sar­cina, Le Major and the crisis with Andrea Rosi (Sony) and Ric­cardo Zan­otti (Pen­guini Tat­tici Nuc­le­ari). Suc­cess for the Rock Les­son: Music in Puglia with Ern­esto Assante and Diod­ato, a jour­ney to one of the most music­al regions of Italy and among its artists, who over the years have writ­ten fun­da­ment­al pages in the his­tory of Itali­an music.

    There is a broad focus on the inter­na­tion­al scene, aimed at artists and music oper­at­ors, with the webinars Live stream­ing and con­nec­ted exper­i­ences with Jan Ole Otnaes, Chris­toph Huber, Raf­faele Cas­arano and Roberto Ottavi­ano, How the COVID-19 Crisis May Change the Music Busi­ness with Mar­tin Gold­schmidt , Someone To Watch Over Me by EJN, Europe Jazz Net­work and Com­mu­nic­at­ing in times of crisis with Geor­gia Taglietti. There is also space for syn­chron­iz­a­tion with mas­ter­classes and work­shops organ­ized by NODE: Com­pos­i­tion tech­niques and prac­tices for film music with maes­tro Clau­dio Simon­etti (Gob­lin), Sound Design for Gam­ing with Andrea Fed­er­ici (Acca­demia Itali­ana Videogio­chi), The pub­lish­ing con­tract inten­ded for syn­chron­iz­a­tions with Marco Bar­bone, Listen­ing ses­sion by Guild of Music Super­visor UK with Nick Angel and Ben Sum­ner and finally James Han­nigan in con­ver­sa­tion with John Broom­hall. The digit­al ver­sion of Puglia Sounds Musi­cari­um, the school of music­al pro­fes­sions with the usu­al basic and advanced ver­sions, with numer­ous les­sons: Self-pro­duc­tions with Ant­on­ella Rizzi, The musi­cian in the digit­al era with Massimo Bon­elli, Social Music Mar­ket­ing: find­ing new fans with social media with Gab­ri­ele Aprile, Lyr­ics and music writ­ing with Giuseppe Ana­stasi, Rock Por­traits — Pho­to­graph­ic post pro­duc­tion with Gio­vanni Can­it­ano and In-The-Box Record­ing and Mix­ing with Marc Urselli, three-time Grammy Award win­ner.

    Great par­ti­cip­a­tion also for Puglia Sounds Plus: meet­ing with oper­at­ors in which Loredana Capone, region­al coun­cilor for the Tour­ist and Cul­tur­al Industry, and Cesare Veronico, artist­ic coordin­at­or Puglia Sounds/Medimex, illus­trated the new pub­lic notices of Puglia Sounds to oper­at­ors and artists ima­gined to face the com­plex scen­ario facing the Apuli­an music sec­tor.

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  • Taranto 2019

    Taranto 2019

    Med­imex returns to Taranto with a live pro­gram with inter­na­tion­al and ref­er­ence artists from the nation­al scene, show­cases for Apuli­an artists and a detailed homage to Wood­stock.

    In 2019 Med­imex is back in Taranto, one of the most beau­ti­ful towns in our coun­try. The event, open to the gen­er­al pub­lic and music industry pro­fes­sion­als, fea­tured a live shows sched­ule with inter­na­tion­al and lead­ing nation­al artists, show­cases for Puglia artists and a well-struc­tured trib­ute to Wood­stock which included a photo exhib­i­tion on Wood­stock and Jimi Hendrix. Along­side the Meet the Author gath­er­ings with the prot­ag­on­ists of the music scene, Med­imex 2019 hos­ted a num­ber of events addressed to pro­fes­sion­als, artists and music busi­nesses on the pro­spects of the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al mar­ket and the chal­lenges ahead.

    Hence, also in this new edi­tion, Med­imex was once again an oppor­tun­ity to meet fest­iv­al dir­ect­ors, agen­cies, record labels, Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers and par­ti­cip­ate in spe­cif­ic events aimed at music pro­fes­sion­als. The pro­gram included pan­els and work­shops, with influ­en­tial experts who hos­ted inter­est­ing debates on some of the cent­ral themes of the music busi­ness fab­ric. And then, again, Puglia Sounds Musi­cari­um, school of music crafts (with a new upgraded ver­sion tar­geted only to pro­fes­sion­als) and the Song­writ­ing Camp, dur­ing which young musi­cians worked side by side with renowned authors and pro­du­cers.

    Among the ven­ues of the 2019 edi­tion, the Rotonda del Lun­go­mare, the Peri­p­ato Gar­dens, the Nation­al Archae­olo­gic­al Museum MArTA, the Fusco Theat­er, the Aragonese Castle, the High­er Insti­tute of Music­al Stud­ies “G. Pais­i­ello”, the Uni­ver­sity and the Lit­er­ary Café Cibo per la Mente.

    Sev­er­al artists were also involved in many talk events, Meet the author gath­er­ings and con­certs. Among them, Liam Galla­gh­er, Piero Pelù, Frankie hi nrg mc, James Senese, Motta, La Muni­cipàl and Patti Smith. Three out­stand­ing exhib­i­tions could also be vis­ited Med­imex 2019: “Wood­stock & Hendrix: The Revolu­tion” with pho­to­graphs by Bar­on Wolman and Don­ald Sil­ver­stein cur­ated by ONO Arte Con­tem­por­anea, hos­ted by the Nation­al Archae­olo­gic­al Museum MarTa. And, again, “Rocks and Shots,” with pho­tos by Henry Rug­geri and “WONDERWALL — AN EXHIBITION ABOUT OASIS” with pho­to­graphs, mem­or­ab­il­ia and souven­irs. Both exhib­i­tions, cur­ated by Puglia Rock, were set up inside Teatro Fusco.

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  • Fog­gia 2019

    Fog­gia 2019

    Four days of music in the Dauni­an cap­it­al with a rich pro­gram of ini­ti­at­ives in the most rep­res­ent­at­ive places of the city, with con­certs, meet­ings with Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al guests, exhib­i­tions, music train­ing activ­it­ies and oth­er col­lat­er­al events.

    Med­imex Spring Fog­gia took place in Fog­gia as a pre­view of the 2019 edi­tion of the fol­low­ing June, in Taranto. Four days of music in the Dauni­an cap­it­al with a rich pro­gram of ini­ti­at­ives in the most rep­res­ent­at­ive places of the city, with con­certs, meet­ings with Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al guests, exhib­i­tions, music train­ing activ­it­ies and oth­er col­lat­er­al events.

    Renzo Arbore with a spe­cial pro­ject and the Brit­ish musi­cian Bry­an Ferry, founder of Roxy Music, were the prot­ag­on­ists of the two free admis­sion con­certs sched­uled in Piazza Cavour. On Fri­day 12 April, Arbore coordin­ated an unpre­ced­en­ted live per­form­ance in which some of the most rep­res­ent­at­ive expo­nents of Itali­an jazz were involved, includ­ing Enrico Rava, Dado Mor­oni with Ros­ar­io Bon­ac­corso and Roberto Gatto, Stefano Di Bat­tista, Enrico Zan­isi and the sing­ers Nicky Nic­olai . On Sat­urday 13 April Bry­an Ferry held the only Itali­an date of his world tour for Med­imex a few days after Roxy Music entered the Rock­’n’Roll Hall of Fame. The two con­certs were opened by Apuli­an artists selec­ted among the par­ti­cipants in the Puglia Sounds Record 2018 call (Young Sec­tion).

    The Spring Edi­tion of Med­imex in Fog­gia also fea­tured a Meet the Author gath­er­ing at Palazzo della Dogana with Pat­tie Boyd, whose photo exhib­i­tion “Pat­tie Boyd and The Beatles”, cur­ated by Ono Arte Con­tem­por­anea, was held from April 7 to May 6.  This amaz­ing exhib­i­tion included forty icon­ic shots through which the Brit­ish pho­to­graph­er “speaks” about her rela­tion­ship with the Beatles and her first two hus­bands, George Har­ris­on and Eric Clapton. The pho­tos, that had already been on dis­play in Dub­lin, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, Lon­don and the United States, covered a time span of more than thirty years.

    Med­imex has also offered to the town of Fog­gia, with­in the Fondazione dei Monti Uniti, anoth­er import­ant exhib­i­tion entirely ded­ic­ated to the Fend­er world with the Fend­er Vin­tage Museum by Rete di imp­rese Oltre and Apuli­an Gui­tar Star­tup. More than one hun­dred pieces, includ­ing sol­id body string instru­ments and amp­li­fi­ers built between 1951 and 1974, col­lec­ted by Falvio Cam­or­ani for the Prisma Melody Asso­ci­ation, on dis­play in a chro­no­lo­gic­al and philo­lo­gic­al order togeth­er with cata­logues, posters, doc­u­ments, mem­or­ab­il­ia and vin­tage pho­to­graphs, for an unmiss­able jour­ney into the golden age of the com­pany foun­ded by Leo Fend­er.

    Among the guests of the Meet the Author gath­er­ings, Pat­tie Boyd, Ex-Otago, Renzo Arbore, Noemi, Ermal Meta, Nina Zilli and Pier­davide, inter­viewed by Ern­esto Assante. Finally, the spe­cial atmo­sphere of the “Rock Class” at the Teatro del Fuoco, where as part of the ini­ti­at­ives ded­ic­ated to the Beatles, Ern­esto Assante and Gino Castaldo hos­ted the event a “Beatles Night 1960–1969” with spe­cial guest Klaus Voor­mann.

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  • Taranto 2018

    Taranto 2018

    First appoint­ment of the new itin­er­ant for­mula, in the city of Taranto, for 4 days of live music, DJ sets, exhib­i­tions, vinyl mar­ket, screen­ings and in-depth meet­ings.

    First edi­tion of the new trav­el­ing format, in the town of Taranto, for 4 days of live music, djsets, exhib­i­tions, a vinyl mar­ket­place, screen­ings and lec­tures. This is Med­imex 2018, organ­ized in Taranto with a full pro­gram of live music con­certs which included Kraft­werk, Placebo and Nitro con­certs.

    A num­ber of Meet the Author gath­er­ings fea­tur­ing the prot­ag­on­ists of the Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al music scene includ­ing The Sex Pis­tols drum­mer, Paul Cook. The pro­gram also included an import­ant exhib­i­tion on Kurt Cobain and Grunge, set up at MArTA in Taranto. But once again Med­imex was essen­tially focused on the music industry and music pro­fes­sion­als, artists and com­pan­ies and on the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al music mar­ket pro­spects and future chal­lenges. In this edi­tion Puglia Sounds Musi­cari­um, the school of music crafts (with an advanced ver­sion only for pro­fes­sion­als), is back togeth­er with Song­writ­ing Camp, dur­ing which young musi­cians work side by side with fam­ous authors and pro­du­cers.

    Among the curi­os­it­ies, the arrival at Med­imex 2018 of the inter­nauts of the most fam­ous and beloved satir­ic­al web­site in Italy, Lercio.it, with Ler­cio inter­nauts per­form­ing dur­ing the change of stage, and the breaks sched­uled between one con­cert and the oth­er of the artists per­form­ing on the main stage of the Rotonda del Lun­go­mare in Taranto. Funny news­casts, unlikely fea­tures and the best of the site’s con­tent, will take the audi­ence on a fun and hil­ari­ous jour­ney through the news pro­grams. Of course under the ban­ner of “dirty job of the news out­lets.

    And then, the event Med­imex Music Mar­ket, organ­ized by PopUp The Sunday, Dis­play Agency, Dis­cip­line, Node, Cool­club, Fiera del Disco SUD Italia: a unique event that has com­bined the world of inde­pend­ent labels to that of col­lect­ors care­fully selec­ted for a trade fair with exhib­it­ors from all over Italy and Europe, togeth­er with a pro­gram of djsets, live shows and con­fer­ences with inter­na­tion­al guests, with a focus on the most inter­est­ing labels on the loc­al scene. “Inde­pend­ent Label Mar­ket” is the Lon­don brand that has brought togeth­er over 300 of the most import­ant inde­pend­ent labels from around the world that sell dir­ectly to the pub­lic their just released pro­duc­tions. Med­imex Music Mar­ket also saw a comeback of the Record Fair, foun­ded in Taranto, one of the largest in the coun­try, with the par­ti­cip­a­tion of exhib­it­ors from all over Italy, includ­ing some of the biggest vinyl col­lect­ors in Italy. The Med­imex Music Mar­ket pro­gramme also fea­tured djsets with nation­al and inter­na­tion­al DJs rep­res­ent­ing the labels hos­ted and pro­pos­ing sets of highly selec­ted music from funky to reg­gae, from indie to elec­tron­ic, from soul to punk, all care­fully selec­ted under PopUp The Sunday artist­ic dir­ec­tion, for very spe­cial brunches and music aper­itif cock­tails.

    Edi­tion that registered 60,000 par­ti­cipants, over 200 artists and 400 music oper­at­ors. And also 120 nation­al and inter­na­tion­al news­pa­pers and media that talked about Med­imex and 800,000 inter­ac­tions on social net­works.

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  • Bari 2017

    Bari 2017

    Great live music accom­pan­ied by an import­ant space for dis­cus­sion on the oppor­tun­it­ies of the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al mar­ket.

    There are four keywords for Med­imex, which from 2017, turns into an Inter­na­tion­al Fest­iv­al & Music Con­fer­ence. Great live music, with the prot­ag­on­ists of the world scene, accom­pan­ied by many import­ant meet­ings, debates, events to i) exchange ideas on the poten­tial of the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al music mar­kets, and ii) reflect on the chal­lenges that new tech­no­lo­gies bring about in the music sec­tor and iii) cre­ate net­works and pro­mote one’ s own work. A very spe­cial chance for oper­at­ors, who could meet fest­iv­al dir­ect­ors, agency man­agers, record labels and inter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers. There was a full pro­gram of con­certs, DJ sets, Meet the Author gath­er­ings and pro­fes­sion­al events, exhib­i­tions and side events. Med­imex 2017 was all this, no longer just an exhib­i­tion but rather the heart­beat of the town.

    Med­imex changes its iden­tity and becomes a music week. An event in which region­al and nation­al music oper­at­ors were able to par­ti­cip­ate in pro­fes­sion­al and net­work­ing activ­it­ies, meet dir­ect­ors of European fest­ivals, book­ing agency man­agers and, at the same time, the gen­er­al pub­lic was able to par­ti­cip­ate in a great cel­eb­ra­tion of music with live shows, DJ sets, exhib­i­tions, vinyl mar­ket, screen­ings and numer­ous side events.

    With many ven­ues scattered in Bari from Piazza Prefettura, to the Mur­at­tiano neigh­bor­hood, Palace Café,  Cas­tello Svevo, former Palazzo delle Poste, AncheCinema Roy­al, Pet­ruzzelli Theat­er, Piazza del Fer­rarese and Spazi9o Mur­at. But also Largo Gian­nella, Torre Quetta, Parco 2 Giugno and Pala­florio.

    Many con­certs, meet­ings, pre­views and exhib­i­tions ded­ic­ated to the world of music in all of its aspects: after a one-year stop, Med­imex is back with the exclus­ive free-admis­sion con­cert of Iggy Pop on June 10, and with many oth­er live shows: Solange, Tricky, Slow­dive, Salmo and many guests in the dif­fer­ent meet­ings, includ­ing Carlo Mas­sar­ini, pho­to­graph­er Masay­oshi Sukita author of the most fam­ous shots of Dav­id Bowie, Gaetano Cur­reri, Raf, Cal­cutta, Cosmo, Fab­riz­io Moro, Michele Bravi and Samuel.

    Among the new fea­tures of this edi­tion, Puglia Sounds Musi­cari­um, a work­shop on music crafts with renowned lec­tur­ers and the Song­writ­ing Camp, a song­writ­ing school.

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  • Bari 2015

    Bari 2015

    Also for its fifth edi­tion, Med­imex presents itself as a real city of music designed on an area of 20 thou­sand square meters with 100 exhib­it­ors from all over the world, over 200 guests from 27 coun­tries and 150 events in three days.

    Also for its fifth edi­tion, Med­imex comes as a real music city designed on an area of 20 thou­sand square meters with 100 exhib­it­ors from around the world, over 200 guests from 27 coun­tries and 150 events in three days.

    No less than 70 events in 6 spaces and 40 con­certs on 5 stages, includ­ing per­form­ances by Aus­trali­an pop star Nat­alie Imbruglia, Sicili­an sing­er-song­writer Car­men Con­soli and Hindi Zahra, defined as the ” North Afric­an Patti Smith”. And also live per­form­ances by some of the most inter­est­ing artists of the Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al music scene, includ­ing Kutso, Gio­vanni Cac­camo and Santa Mar­garet. On the stage ded­ic­ated to the music of Puglia, the artists who pro­duced a record­ing pro­ject sup­por­ted by Puglia Sounds in 2015: Radi­oder­vish, Erica Mou, Raf­faele Cas­arano and Car­o­lina Bub­bico.

    The 2015 Meet the Author events fea­tured Bri­an Eno, who presen­ted the world premiere of Light Paint­ings as a visu­al artist. His install­a­tion was on dis­play at Teatro Mar­gher­ita in Bari. Among the oth­er guests of the Meet the Author gath­er­ings: Gianna Nan­nini, Car­men Con­soli, Ludovico Ein­audi, the Sud Sound Sys­tem and Vini­cio Capos­sela, who cel­eb­rated his 25-year long career right at Med­imex. This edi­tion has also seen the par­ti­cip­a­tion of com­poser Dav­id Lang, the Depro­du­cers (Max Cas­acci, Vit­torio Cosma, Gianni Maroc­colo and Ric­cardo Sin­igal­lia), writers Erri De Luca, Gian­rico Carofiglio and Gian­carlo De Cataldo, and a group of emer­ging Itali­an music tal­ents includ­ing rap­per Ensi, Lo Stato Sociale, Francesca Michielin, The Kolors and Lorenzo Fragola, who won the Med­imex Academy awards for Best New Artist and Best First Work.

    In the Pan­els sec­tion Med­imex 2015 hos­ted artist­ic dir­ect­ors and experts in fest­iv­al organ­iz­a­tion, pro­duc­tion and pro­mo­tion from the most import­ant fest­ivals and live per­form­ance exper­i­ences on a glob­al scale: Sta­cey Will­helm from South by South­w­est in Aus­tin (USA), Chris Gar­rit, the “night may­or” of Gronin­gen, the Dutch city of night­life and Euro­son­ic, Mal­colm Haynes from Gla­ston­bury (UK), Enrik Rasmussem from Roskilde (Den­mark), Izzy Loi­caono from Great Escape (UK) and Peter Smidt from c/o pop Fest­iv­al (Ger­many) were among them.

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  • Bari 2014

    Bari 2014

    More than 17,000 attendees, 1,100 accred­ited oper­at­ors, 300 guests includ­ing artists and speak­ers and 33 nations involved. These are the num­bers of the fourth edi­tion of Med­imex.

    More than 17,000 attendees, 1,100 accred­ited oper­at­ors, 300 guests includ­ing artists and con­fer­ence speak­ers and 33 coun­tries involved. These are the num­bers of the fourth edi­tion of Med­imex, which brought togeth­er major and inde­pend­ent record labels, fest­ivals, industry oper­at­ors, agen­cies, media, pro­moters, star­tups and makers, music insti­tu­tions, net­works, music pub­lish­ers, rep­res­ent­at­ives of the tech­no­logy industry and pro­fes­sion­als from the entire music industry. This innov­a­tion music show was held on an area of 20,000 square meters with an area ded­ic­ated to night live music shows with 4 stages, an exhib­i­tion area of 8,000sqm that hos­ted booths, net­work­ing areas, rooms for pan­els, meet­ings, present­a­tions, stages for live music, and an area ded­ic­ated to innov­a­tion, media spaces, games space and much more.

    Since 2014, the Meet the Author events have been part of the MEDIMEX Kids pro­ject, a train­ing pro­gram ded­ic­ated to Itali­an auteur music for the stu­dents of juni­or and seni­or high schools with the par­ti­cip­a­tion of over 3,500 of them. Med­imex Kids includes a com­pre­hens­ive pro­gram for schools with work­shops, mul­tidiscip­lin­ary activ­it­ies, work on the texts and poems of the artists guests of the show that provides stu­dents with tools for act­ive and informed par­ti­cip­a­tion in the Meet the Authors gath­er­ings. Pivotal event of this edi­tion was the vis­it of Vasco Rossi to Med­imex for the world premiere of his album entitled “Sono Inno­cente”. Vasco Rossi press con­fer­ence was atten­ded by 250 accred­ited journ­al­ists from the main Itali­an news­pa­pers.

    Med­imex Music Up: since its fourth edi­tion, Med­imex has devoted an area of the exhib­i­tion space to the most inter­est­ing star­tups and makers that oper­ate in the music industry and to the devel­op­ment of ideas and pro­jects that aim to change the world of music and cre­ate a strong rela­tion­ship between innov­at­ors and music industry. A them­at­ic and inter­act­ive space where the pub­lic and industry pro­fes­sion­als can get to know new music star­tups and try out products and tools that com­bine new tech­no­lo­gies, tra­di­tion­al crafts­man­ship, 3d print­ing, every­day objects, IT and design made by digit­al artis­ans. Moreover, in 2014 Med­imex hos­ted the first edi­tion of Med­imex Music Up, three days focused on the devel­op­ment of new ideas, products and pro­jects inten­ded to change and innov­ate the way music is pro­duced and con­sumed. 66 music innov­at­ors includ­ing artists, com­puter sci­ent­ists, design­ers, musi­cians, busi­ness and mar­ket­ing developers, product man­agers, divided into teams, have worked with­in the Music Up Area for the entire dur­a­tion of the show to devel­op new ideas and music pro­jects.

    Med­imex is also an oppor­tun­ity for pro­fes­sion­als to dis­cuss music, ana­lyze changes and pro­spects of a mar­ket in con­stant devel­op­ment. Dur­ing the fourth edi­tion, innov­a­tions in the record industry were dis­cussed with Aless­andro Mas­sara (Uni­ver­sal), Marco Alboni (Warner), Andrea Rosi (Sony), Cater­ina Case­lli (Sug­ar) with Dori Ghezzi (le Nuvole) and rep­res­ent­at­ives of the most import­ant Itali­an inde­pend­ent labels. Room was giv­en to the live music mar­ket in Italy with Sal­vatore Nastasi (Direzione Nazionale Spettacolo dal Vivo MIBACT), Carlo Fuor­tes (Musica per Roma), Roberto De Luca (Live Nation) and dis­cussants from numer­ous fest­ivals and nation­al cir­cuits such as Kee­pOn and Super­club Italia. The new fron­ti­ers between copy­right and tech­no­logy were also dis­cussed in a num­ber of pan­els with dis­cussants from FIMI, Google/Youtube, Soundreef and Deez­er. Many events were held which focused on all music­al genres, from the sounds of the Medi­ter­ranean to jazz music — with a spe­cial event pro­moted by Europe Jazz Net­work, Asso­ciazione I‑Jazz and Apulia Jazz Net­work — to elec­tron­ic music with rep­res­ent­at­ives of the Son­ar fest­iv­al and of the main Itali­an fest­ivals includ­ing Elita Design Week Fest­iv­al, Club2Club and Robot Fest­iv­al.

    As every year, this edi­tion fea­tures an import­ant and pres­ti­gi­ous par­ti­cip­a­tion of inter­na­tion­al oper­at­ors: in 2014 Med­imex was atten­ded by rep­res­ent­at­ives of SWSX, Babel Med, Cana­dian Music Week, Reperbhann Fest­iv­al, Szi­get Fest­iv­al, North Sea Jazz Fest­iv­al, Waves Fest­iv­al, Jarasum Jazz Fest­iv­al, We Love Green, Les Nuits Son­ores, Mer­cat de Música Viva de Vic, Jazza­head!, Womex, Fira Medi­ter­rània di Man­resa, Liv­er­pool Sound City, MaMa, Sound of the Xity, Europe Jazz Net­work and Korea Arts Man­age­ment Ser­vice.

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  • Bari 2013

    Bari 2013

    The third edi­tion of MEDIMEX hos­ted 80 events. A unique event in Italy: a large music salon for an audi­ence of enthu­si­asts and, at the same time, an inter­na­tion­al mar­ket fair aimed at pro­fes­sion­als.

    The third edi­tion of MEDIMEX fea­tured 80 events, 22 show­cases and con­certs of Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al artists on 3 dif­fer­ent stages, 8,000 square meters of exhib­i­tion space at the Fiera del Levante with over 100 booths, 5 rooms for 54 Meet the Author gath­er­ings, pan­els, present­a­tions and pro­fes­sion­al meet­ings with 198 speak­ers from 23 coun­tries. A unique event in Italy: a great music show for an audi­ence of music lov­ers and, at the same time, an inter­na­tion­al trade fair for pro­fes­sion­als.

    Dur­ing the third edi­tion of Med­imex, the sec­tion includ­ing the Meet the Author gath­er­ings, the pan­els and the present­a­tions for the gen­er­al pub­lic for music lov­ers and music oper­at­ors was very rich and var­ied. Three days of dis­cus­sions on music anim­ated by artists, some of the most influ­en­tial voices of the inter­na­tion­al music mar­ket, and the major play­ers in music innov­a­tion, journ­al­ists and rep­res­ent­at­ives of the entire music world.

    Among the names of the 2013 edi­tion, Clau­dio Bagli­oni, Fed­ez, Piero Pelù, Francesco de Gregori, Fiorella Man­noia, Marco Men­goni, Pino Daniele, Nic­colò Fabi and Renzo Arbore, all of them host­ing their own Meet the Author gath­er­ing: inter­views, con­ver­sa­tions between friends, pub­lic con­fes­sions, por­traits, in which the artists told the pub­lic about them­selves, their music, their songs, the most diverse aspects of their stor­ies and their pas­sions. Dur­ing the three days, five halls of the Med­imex exhib­i­tion space hos­ted a rich pro­gram of pan­els to dis­cuss music mar­ket trends, new tech­no­lo­gies in music, the pro­spects of a con­stantly evolving mar­ket, the music of the present and the music of the future.

    There were 21 show­cases on the three stages set up in the Fiera del Levante: Achili­funk Sound Sys­tem (Spain), Bandad­ri­at­ica (Italy), Black­mail (Ger­many), Bobo Rondel­li and l’Orches­trino (Italy), Cri­fiu (Italy), Diod­ato (Italy), Elast­ic Soci­ety (Italy), Gaïo (France), Hoba Hoba Spir­it (Morocco), Incom­prens­ibile FC (Italy), Lumin­al (Italy), Mai Per­son­al Mood (Italy), Mono­phona (Lux­em­bourg), Ogre (Por­tugal), Redrum Alone (Italy), Rhò (Italy), Ric­cardo Tesi & Ban­ditali­ana Land­scapes (Italy), See You Down­town (Italy), Smadj (France), Temenik Elec­tric (France) and Una (Italy).

    Then, on Sat­urday, Decem­ber 7, Med­imex hos­ted one of the Itali­an con­certs of Imany, music rev­el­a­tion of the year and win­ner of the multi-plat­in­um album for the single You Will Nev­er Know with more than 60,000 cop­ies sold.

    On Sunday, Decem­ber 8, at the Pet­ruzzelli Theat­er in Bari, Med­imex organ­ized of the most import­ant and pres­ti­gi­ous events on the Itali­an music cal­en­dar: the renowned Tar­ghe Tenco award cere­mony. The even­ing event included per­form­ances by the win­ners of the Tar­ghe Nic­colò Fabi, Cesare Basile, Appino, Mauro Erman­no Giovanardi and the par­ti­cip­a­tion of Manuel Agnelli, Sin­fonico Hon­olulu, Ric­cardo Tesi and guests Renzo Arbore and Vini­cio Capos­sela. The even­ing was presen­ted by Dav­id Riondino and Dario Ver­gas­sola.

    The third edi­tion of Med­imex also included pro­fes­sion­al meet­ings for artists and music oper­at­ors. The pro­gram included Face to Face(s) (B2B meet­ings between pro­fes­sion­als), Ment­or­ing (train­ing round tables) and Pitch Ses­sion (meet­ings aimed at the estab­lish­ment of new col­lab­or­a­tions) with rep­res­ent­at­ives of Gla­ston­bury Fest­iv­al (UK), SXSW (USA), Szi­get Fest­iv­al (Hun­gary), Cana­dian Music Week (Canada), Ber­lin Music Week (Ger­many) Euro­son­ic Noorder­slag Fest­iv­al (Neth­er­lands), Exit Fest­iv­al (Ser­bia), Azi­muth Pro­duc­tions (France), Korea Arts Man­age­ment Ser­vice (Korea), Jazzto­pad Fest­iv­al (Poland), Glimpse Fest­iv­al (Bel­gi­um), Byblos Inter­na­tion­al Fest­iv­al (Leban­on), F‑Cat Pro­duc­tions GmbH (Ger­many), Jazz on the beach (Fin­land), Red Sea Jazz (Israel), Inter­na­tion­al Man­agers For­um (NGO with mem­bers in 15 coun­tries), Tel Aviv Jazz Fest­iv­al (Israel), Jazz Fest­iv­al Ljubljana (Slov­e­nia) and many oth­ers.

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  • Bari 2012

    Bari 2012

    The second edi­tion of Med­imex hosts music­al oper­at­ors and com­pan­ies from all over Europe, record­ing a 30% increase com­pared to the pre­vi­ous edi­tion.

    From Novem­ber 29 to Decem­ber 2, Bari is  the ven­ue for the second edi­tion of Med­imex, the Medi­ter­ranean Music Fair organ­ized by Puglia Sounds, the pro­gram of the Puglia Region for the devel­op­ment of its music sys­tem.

    The second edi­tion of Med­imex sees the par­ti­cip­a­tion of music oper­at­ors and music busi­nesses from all over Europe, and registers a 30% increase over the pre­vi­ous edi­tion in terms of vis­it­ors and more than 100 applic­a­tions from Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al groups for show­cases. More than 1,300 oper­at­ors and exhib­it­ors from Italy, France, Great Bri­tain, Ger­many, Spain, Tur­key, Leban­on, Por­tugal, Poland, Alger­ia, Egypt, Greece, Tunisia, Morocco, Lux­em­bourg and Ice­land.

    Four days of events focus­ing on the new scen­ari­os of the music mar­ket, artist­ic and com­mer­cial exchange of ideas, new music trends, oppor­tun­it­ies for dis­cus­sion and under­stand dif­fer­ences and ana­lo­gies among region­al, Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al music mar­kets: Med­imex con­firms the suc­cess­ful format of the first edi­tion, intro­du­cing some new fea­tures. On Novem­ber 29, open­ing cere­mony at Teatro Pet­ruzzelli in Bari with the show Merav­iglioso Mod­ugno, a trib­ute to Domen­ico Mod­ugno.

    From Novem­ber 30, the 8,000 square meters of exhib­i­tion space will open up to over 1,000 music pro­fes­sion­als from 20 coun­tries and to the gen­er­al pub­lic with a rich pro­gram of events: 23 after­noon and even­ing show­cases span­ning all music­al genres, more than 50 events includ­ing con­ven­tions, present­a­tions, face to face(s), work­shops, author’s work­shops, Meet the Author gath­er­ings and key­note speeches with big names of Itali­an music, prot­ag­on­ists of the music industry and rep­res­ent­at­ives of cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions and of the main Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al fest­ivals and the award cere­mon­ies for Med­imex Best Itali­an Artist and Best Inter­na­tion­al Artist 2012, Pimi and Pivi.

    Among the artists par­ti­cip­at­ing in the inaug­ur­al night event, Negramaro, Noemi, Aless­andro Man­narino, Brun­ori Sas, Dente, Paci­fico, Ginev­ra di Marco, Erica Mou, Mamma Mar­jas, Raiz&Radicanto. And then, again, dur­ing the four days, Meet the Author talks with Ant­on­ello Venditti, Cater­ina Case­lli, Mogol and show­cases of Faraualla, Chemir­an­i’s, Radio Babel Mar­seille.

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