Anything but warlike! What hides in the belly of our Trojan Horse[1] is pure energy: the positive energy of a programme designed to embrace the whole city of Bari.
After a year’s break in 2016, the 2017 edition of MEDIMEX leaves the exhibition centre and its halls. The programme is spread across 12 venues in the city: Ex Palazzo delle Poste, Piazza Prefettura, Teatro Petruzzelli, Largo Giannella, Torre Quetta, Castello Svevo, Palace Cafè, Parco 2 Giugno, Spazio Murat, AncheCinema Royal, Piazza del Ferrarese, Palaflorio. And it flourishes around a new name that still holds today: International Festival & Music Conference. From 8 to 11 June, in late spring.
The 13 Incontri d’Autore (Meet the Author), curated and hosted by Ernesto Assante and Gino Castaldo and other personalities, welcome Masayoshi Sukita, Fabrizio Moro, Carlo Massarini, Michele Bravi, Boomdabash, Antonino, Samuel, Gaetano Curreri, Calcutta, Ashley Kahn, Nesli, Cosmo and Raf.
6 artists from the Puglia jazz scene play showcases at the Palace Cafè: Paola Arnesano and Vince Abbracciante, Marco Boccia Trio Jazz, Luca Cacucciolo, Fabio Accardi, Maurogiovanni Balducci, Domenico Cartago.
The showcases are joined by 5 concerts in Piazza Prefettura: Edro & Richard Sinclair, Tricky, Slowdive, Municipale Balcanica, Iggy Pop. 5 concerts at Largo Giannella: “Spiritual Galaxy” by Conte, Petrella, Casarano; Jessy Lanza, Salmo, Comagatte & South Cypher Alliance, Gemitaiz & Madman / Priestess. 3 DJ sets at Torre Quetta: Gilles Peterson, Jazzanova, Nicola Conte. 2 concerts at the Teatro Petruzzelli: Italian Soul Summit feat. Serena Brancale, Ainé, Davide Shorty; Solange.
The Ex Palazzo delle Poste becomes the main venue of the Conference, with 12 events on the programme. 7 panels: public funding; new forms of online storytelling; the music economy; the future of ticketing; export; developing work in jazz; a focus on clubbing. 4 workshops: collecting; ticketing; video content strategy; sync. 1 networking session with 14[1] professionals, members of EJN and I-Jazz, meeting the Puglia jazz scene.
MEDIMEX launches a training programme in music professions with Songwriting Camp and Puglia Sounds Musicarium.
Songwriting Camp is aimed at songwriters and producers and is run in collaboration with Sony/ATV Music Publishing. The tutors are Giuseppe Anastasi, Antonio Filippelli, Gianclaudia Franchini, Fabio Gargiulo, Danti, Gianni Pollex, Giorgio Poi, Piero Romitelli, Luca Serpenti, Colapesce and Marta Venturini.
The Puglia Sounds Musicarium music school covers the themes and professions of music: photography, graphic design, web, video, production, management, the music and live business, vocal coaching, writing, stages and lighting, sound engineering and multimedia journalism. With the tutors Giovanni Canitano, Paolo De Francesco, Michele Caporosso, Ambrogio Lo Giudice, Ferdinando Arnò, Pierpaolo Peroni, Massimo Bonelli, Rossana Casale, Giuseppe Anastasi, Franco Zanetti, Carlo Pastore, Gian Luca Cavallini and Carlo Massarini.
The Castello Svevo hosts shots from Masayoshi Sukita’s archive in a rich photo exhibition called “David Bowie & Masayoshi Sukita: Heroes 40th anniversary”. It was Bowie, back in Tokyo with Iggy Pop, who asked Sukita to photograph him. From that session came the shot used for the cover of Heroes.
Parco 2 Giugno hosts 6 screenings: “Lou Reed: Berlin” by Julian Schnabel; “Gimme Danger” by Jim Jarmusch; “David Bowie – Five Years” by Francis Whately; “Stop Making Sense”, “Neil Young: Heart of Gold” and “Enzo Avitabile Music Life” by Jonathan Demme.
Spazio Murat becomes the Independent Label Market and hosts PopUp the Sunday; the record labels Rough Trade, Mannequin, Paradise Bangkok, Far Out, 42 Records, Misty Lane, Lady Sometimes, No Sense of Place, A.MA Records, Backwards, Strawboscopic, Tardam Records, Metroklang Records, We were never being boring feat. Birthh; a packed programme of DJ sets; and the exhibition “Il rock a fumetti” by Enzo Zizzi.
The programme is completed by events in collaboration with other institutions and associations: “Bari suona”, 21[1] concerts in Bari’s Murat district; Bari Geek Fest at the Palaflorio; the final of the Rec’n’Play Contest at the AncheCinema Royal; and the “Gazzetta Music Contest”, 9 concerts by the finalists in Piazza del Ferrarese. MEDIMEX radio is produced by the partners L’Altra Radio, Radio Bari, Controradio and Radio Selene, directed and supervised by Massimo Cotto. Every day, 4 hours on air with MedimeX Files by Massimo Cotto, Medimex News by Corrado Minervini, “Med” in Puglia by Enrico Fornaro, Medimex Magazine by Carlo Chicco and Medimex Today by Massimo Cotto and Corrado Minervini.
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[1] This refers to the image used in MEDIMEX communications
[1] EJN members György Wallner (Budapest Music Center), Oliver Belopeta (Skopje Jazz Festival), Kevin Appleby (Turner Sims), Murat Sezgi (Xjazz), Krystian Kijas (Jazzovia), Tugce Alpaslan (International Ankara Jazz Festival), Xavier Lemettre (Banlieues Bleues); I-Jazz members Adriano Pedini (Fano Jazz), Giancarlo Velliscig (Udin&Jazz), Ugo Viola (Moncalieri Jazz), Riccardo Brazzale (Vicenza Jazz), Pompeo Benincasa (Catania Jazz); Kim Hitch (PlusHitch / European Jazz Festival)
[1] Rock & Blues: Los Drigos, B Rocker’s, Bread & Pussy, Sandro Corsi Trio, Mafia Trunk, Bari Blues Connection. Folk: Mamajalma, Son de Vuelta, Irish Three, Ivan Dell’Edera. Swing: Pepper on Jive, Dixie & Soda, Rekkiabilly, Compact dixieland jazz band, Trio sudestino. Dj Set: Tuppi, Violet, Miss Pia, Giova, Carlo Chicco, Big Fab.
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