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  • Taranto 2024

    Taranto 2024

    We’re happy to say that Med­imex 2024 was a big suc­cess, with 75 sched­uled events attract­ing lots of par­ti­cipants. There was also lots of great media cov­er­age and over a mil­lion people reached across social media.

    Med­imex 2024 saw great par­ti­cip­a­tion in all events, sold out accom­mod­a­tion in Taranto, lots of media cov­er­age, with report­ers from the main Itali­an news­pa­pers and media, tick­ets sold in more than 30 coun­tries, 300 music oper­at­ors who took part in the pro­fes­sion­al activ­it­ies and a glob­al reach – the num­bers are still grow­ing! We reached over 1.35 mil­lion users, with a wide age range, mostly between 25 and 50 years old. The major­ity of social media users came from the UK, Spain, the US, Ire­land, the Neth­er­lands, France, Ger­many, Greece, Por­tugal, Switzer­land, and Bel­gi­um (in des­cend­ing order of cov­er­age and inter­ac­tions). We also saw some great nation­al cov­er­age, with lots of engage­ment from Puglia and huge num­bers from Lom­bardy, Lazio, Basilicata, Emil­ia-Romagna, and Pied­mont. Plus, there were over 500,000 inter­ac­tions with posts and 250,000 shares, and around 3,000 stor­ies shared by accounts that used the hasht­ag #Medimex2024. Then, see you in Taranto from June 17 to 21, 2025!

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    Un pod­cast fatto dall’in­tel­li­genza arti­fi­ciale (o forse no)

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    On Sat­urday, June 22, The Smile, the first Itali­an con­cert of the band, and Sunday, June 23, Pulp, only Itali­an date, and The Jesus and Mary Chain, only south­ern Itali­an date, gave abso­lutely unfor­get­table, power­ful, and excit­ing con­certs on the stage of the round ter­race over­look­ing the sea. What an incred­ible week­end of music! We were abso­lutely thrilled to see so many amaz­ing artists per­form­ing at Spazi­o­porto and abso­lutely blown away by the incred­ible per­form­ances by Accas­ac­cio, Ele­onora Bor­don­aro, Francesco Moramarco, Kyoto, Salvio Vas­sallo and Mon­ica Pinto, Sandro Joyeux, Com­rad, Leland Did It, Nebüla, Pin­hDAR, Rareș, Samia, Ant­on­ello Losacco, Evita Polidoro, NEROVIVO, Jac­opo Fer­razza, Mal­adè, Pasquale Calò, Valentina Fin Cohors, and Wasted Gen­er­a­tion!

    But there is more to it: the Teatro Fusco was abso­lutely buzz­ing for the highly anti­cip­ated nation­al premiere of the film Angel­headed Hip­ster. The Songs of Marc Bolan & T.Rex and for the meet­ings of The Notori­ous B.I.G. & Tupac Shak­ur with Tor­mento, Michael Jack­son & Prince, The Beatles & The Rolling Stones, and Lou Reed & Dav­id Bowie with Manuel Agnelli—what an incred­ible lineup! And let’s not for­get the incred­ible suc­cess of the video-map­ping Infin­ite Loop, the AI End­less Explor­a­tion, an ori­gin­al work by Roberto San­toro, and Blend­ing Pixels, as well as of the exhib­i­tion Bob Gru­en: John Len­non, The New York Years on view until July 14 at MArTA, the Nation­al Archae­olo­gic­al Museum in Taranto! This year’s three-day event was a resound­ing suc­cess! An incred­ible 300 oper­at­ors took part in a series of enga­ging activ­it­ies, all focused on the excit­ing top­ic of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence. The three days were abso­lutely jam-packed with a num­ber of thought-pro­vok­ing pan­els, present­a­tions, and work­shops on a range of top­ics, includ­ing inter­na­tion­al­iz­a­tion, gender equal­ity in the Itali­an music industry, the digit­al revolu­tion, inter­na­tion­al cooper­a­tion, Sync, the Artist­ic Cent­ric Mod­el, and new per­spect­ives for live music.

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    We are also pleased to announce that that Puglia Sounds Musi­cari­um, a school of music crafts, Med­imex Music Fact­ory, real­ized in col­lab­or­a­tion with Sony Music Pub­lish­ing Italy, and the many activ­it­ies planned all had excel­lent res­ults!

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    World Music

    Rock, Indie, Pop

    Jazz

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    The audi­ence, ven­ues, artists and guests of the 2024 edi­tion events told through pho­to­graphs and videos

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  • Taranto 2023

    Taranto 2023

    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. The show­cases at the Spazi­o­porto by the Apuli­an artists Vienna, Meschino, Lauryyn, Tre­vor, Leea Clem, Ros­anna De Pace, Freud’s Fraud, Salento All Stars and Macro were well atten­ded. This year Med­imex also pro­posed events ded­ic­ated to jazz and author’s music with Nuova Gen­erazione Jazz, a pro­ject pro­moted by the I‑Jazz Asso­ci­ation with the sup­port of MiC, with con­certs by jazz musi­cians Aldo di Caterino, Satoy­ama, Simone Basile Quin­tet , Michele Bon­ifati Emong, Daykoda and Il Tenco Listen — new sing­er-song­writers grow pro­moted by Club Tenco and Puglia Sounds with per­form­ances by Piero Luc­carelli, Checco Curci, Massimo Tor­men and Alessia Tondo. Great par­ti­cip­a­tion also for Kiko Loi­ac­ono A Memori­al, DJ set at the Spazi­o­porto to remem­ber the tour man­ager and pro­du­cer from Bari who passed away in Novem­ber 2022. Fusco Theat­er packed for the Vel­vet Lou Reed Under­ground Tales with Ern­esto Assante, Gino Castaldo and Steve Hunter, Burt Bachar­ach. The big heart of the song with Ern­esto Assante, Gino Castaldo and Simona Molin­ari, Drum Sum­mit with Ern­esto Assante, Tul­lio De Pis­copo and Valentina Magaletti, Lucio Bat­tisti: the birth­day of the great Itali­an song with Ern­esto Assante, Gino Castaldo and the Baus­telle and the queens of Black Music: from Tina Turn­er to Aretha Frank­lin to Bey­on­cé with Gino Castaldo and Ser­ena Bran­cale.

    Par­ti­cip­a­tion in the Per­fect Day exhib­i­tions: Lou Reed and Andy War­hol’s New York, sched­uled until 9 July at MArTA, Nation­al Archae­olo­gic­al Museum of Taranto and Vin­tage Drum Show Med­imex 2023, Ant­o­nio Di Lorenzo Drum Col­lec­tion, was not­able. Great par­ti­cip­a­tion also for the Rite, the Idea, the Craft and the Dream, an ori­gin­al work by Roberto San­toro and Blend­ing Pixels cre­ated for Med­imex.

    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.

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    Nuova Gen­erazione Jazz

    Also import­ant was the par­ti­cip­a­tion of Puglia Sounds Musi­cari­um, the school of music pro­fes­sions which this year offered les­sons on how to Cre­ate a pod­cast from scratch, Record­ing & Mix­ing, Sound, Live Show Design, Live video for large events and Pho­to­graphy and for Med­imex Music Fact­ory, cre­ated in col­lab­or­a­tion with Sony Music Pub­lish­ing Italia which saw 23 young people work on pro­duc­tion, toplines, lyr­ics and, new to this edi­tion, soundtracks for cinema and TV series.

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    The audi­ence, ven­ues, artists and guests of the 2023 edi­tion events told through pho­to­graphs and videos

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  • Bari 2022

    Bari 2022

    The 3 days in Bari — 5 years after the last edi­tion in 2017 — was a com­plex, rich, unfor­get­table edi­tion.

    The 3 days in Bari — 5 years after the last edi­tion in 2017 — was a com­plex, rich, unfor­get­table edi­tion. Med­imex brought the atten­tion of the Itali­an music industry back to Bari, expressed pos­i­tions, ideas and notes played in the Itali­an debate on the show and the phase it is facing.

    The meet­ings with Truppi, Woody Wood­man­sey, Shablo, Vener­us, Ran­core and Diod­ato hos­ted in the enchant­ing Kur­saal San­talu­cia Theat­er and with Denis O’Regan, at the Mar­gher­ita Theatre, accom­pan­ied the fest­iv­al audi­ence, enter­tained, pas­sion­ate and sur­prised them.

    And then the con­certs, those of the Apuli­ans in Torre Quetta, Rad­ic­anto, Nidi D’Arac, Folk­atom­ic, Après la Classe, Rachele Andri­oli, Gio­vanni Angelini, Fabio Accardi & Fab­Crew, Sen­tinelle, Gaia Gen­tile, Red Room, Mr. Bricks, Marco Cas­sanel­li and Deck­ard and finally the Eng­lish The Chem­ic­al Broth­ers. The pure spec­tacle.

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    After Taranto, the Med­imex jour­ney ended per­fectly, in Bari, lead­ing us to redis­cov­er a city, a fest­iv­al, an audi­ence, gen­er­ous, involved, vital.

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  • Taranto 2022

    Taranto 2022

    The four days in Taranto were a dry and power­ful edi­tion, com­par­able to the first stage of a space launch.

    The four days in Taranto were a dry and power­ful edi­tion, com­par­able to the first stage of a space launch. Mean­while, Med­imex con­tin­ues its ascent to reach Bari, in July, from the 13th to the 15th. The gen­er­os­ity of the guest artists has touched peaks of true com­mu­nion with Nick Cave and his The Bad Seeds, in a united and quiv­er­ing Rotonda, a lawn of 14 thou­sand exult­ant hands.

    The same gen­er­os­ity shown with grace by Mar­gher­ita Car­ducci or Diton­el­lapiaga, by Fil­ippo Grazi­ani and Fed­erico Pog­gi­pollini, who gave them­selves to the pub­lic that crowded the Fusco Theat­er — at dif­fer­ent times — in per­form­ances without reser­va­tions; that of Tom­maso Col­li­va and Enrico Gab­ri­elli with their new pro­ject ded­ic­ated to the Maes­tro, Ennio Mor­ricone, in the meet­ing where Michele Riondino also par­ti­cip­ated. The lively intel­li­gence, the desire to be heard of the founder of Hip­gnos­is Stu­dio, Aubrey Pow­ell, who talked about his works – Hip­gnos­is Stu­dio: Pink Floyd and Bey­ond – on dis­play at MArTA.

    And finally the enorm­ous and very pop­u­lar Carlo Mas­sar­ini who spoke once again and always in new words about the enorm­ous Pink Floyd. And always to them, to Pink Floyd, Taranto over­look­ing the para­pet of Corso Due Mari and sit­ting at the tables of the bars and res­taur­ants, enjoyed a power­ful audi­ovisu­al trib­ute pro­jec­ted on the walls of the Aragonese Castle which became a screen and black­board for the occa­sion.

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    A sta­di­um, that of Taranto, which has been per­fectly con­cluded and which will allow the Med­imex cap­sule to reach Bari — with new pro­fes­sion­al, train­ing and live events — after a 5‑year jour­ney — do you remem­ber Iggy Pop? – in the oth­er Apuli­an com­munit­ies.

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  • 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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