SEEYOUTALK
The full programme of presentations and talks at Seeyousound X
DOMENICA 25 FEBBRAI| 18:30 | CINEMA MASSIMO | ADMISSION €5
CARLO MASSARINI - MUSIC DOCS: LA MEMORIA DIVENTA ARTE
Carlo Massarini – journalist, television and radio presenter, is the protagonist of a talk on the history of the music documentary and its developments.
Born in 1952 and raised between La Spezia, Canada, Rome and New York, Massarini has moved across the media (radio, photography, publishing, television, the Internet) in a multimedia way, following a path that has taken him from music to digital technologies. After his radio debut on RadioRAI in 1971 with Per Voi Giovani and Popoff, and his TV debut with Mister Fantasy (1981), he went on with two Sanremo Festivals (1987 and ’88), and from 2010 to 2015 on RAI5 with CoolTour and Ghiaccio Bollente. On the subject of digital and the web he hosted ’MediaMente’ (1995-2002) on RAI and ‘Startup Economy’ (2020-21) on La7. He was editor-in-chief of Popster (1976>78) and of the Italian edition of Rolling Stone (1979), and has published ‘Dear Mister Fantasy’ (2010, reissued 2020), ‘Absolute Beginners’ (2016), with Ivano Scolieri ‘PianoForte’ (2020) and ‘Vivo dal Vivo’ 2023.
DOMENICA 25 FEBBRAI| 16:30 | CAPODOGLIO MURAZZI | FREE ADMISSION
Music and territory: how festivals transform the places that host them - Some Italian and international case histories
With Pierfrancesco Pacoda.
Critic and essayist on music, he works on youth cultures, with particular attention to the relationship between music and lifestyles. Themes around which he has written numerous essays, including Potere alla Parola (Feltrinelli), Hip Hop Italiano (Einaudi), Riviera Club Culture (NDA), La Rivolta Dello Stile, con Ted Polhemus (Alet) e Io, Dj, with Claudio Coccoluto (Baldini+Castoldi). He edited the entry ‘Techno’ for the Enciclopedia Einaudi Generale della Musica. For three years he has been co-curator of the Master’s programme in Music Production and Promotion at UNIBO. He is co-curator of Eufonica, the fair on music education. He was a member for two terms of the Music Commission at the Ministry of Culture. He writes for il Resto del Carlino, Consumatori, Atlante and La Stampa. He is part of the group of authors chosen to edit the Enciclopedia Generale della Musica Treccani.
FRIDAY 1 MARCH | 17:30 | CAPODOGLIO MURAZZI | FREE ADMISSION
MADE IN USA. THE WORK OF SONIC YOUTH BETWEEN INDIE AND POP, VIDEO AND CINEMA
With Maria Teresa Soldani.
The book analyses the paradigmatic role of the noise/art rock band Sonic Youth within visual and media culture, especially of the ’80s and ’90s. The quartet’s audiovisual output goes beyond musical content, connecting to Pop Art, to Appropriation Art, to conceptual art and to underground cinema through the results of a series of emblematic collaborations, especially in the form of the music video and the film. Emerging from the downtown New York art scene of the early ’80s, with the influence of punk and no wave, Sonic Youth create a system of relationships that transposes and articulates within itself the concept of “cultural scene”, becoming drivers of the paradigm of an “indie culture” that from the United States has influenced the rest of the world. In this network Do-It-Yourself – trans-local and expanded – of musicians, artists and film-makers, the band activated broader artistic and communicative strategies centred on the body (body, corpse, youth) seen as the epicentre of American culture, which aim to call into question gender conventions (such as music genre, gender, film genre).
VENERDÌ 1 MARZO | 18:30 | CAPODOGLIO MURAZZI | FREE ADMISSION
SWINGING 60s - PRESENTAZIONE LIBRO
With Franco Dassisti e Michelangelo Iossa.
Franco Dassisti presents the book Swinging 60s (ed. Hoepli) scritto insieme a Michelangelo Iossa.
On 5 October 1962 the Beatles’ first 45 rpm single (Love Me Do) and the first James Bond film (Dr. No – Licenza di uccidere) came out on the same day. From that day on, global pop culture was never the same again: the “fabulous Sixties” were effectively born, the most creative and stimulating decade of the twentieth century.
Taking its cue from that coincidence, the book (embellished with graphics in the style of the era and with historical images) retraces the epic of a season that saw the worlds of music, cinema, the arts, fashion and customs undergo a shock of gigantic proportions. It is no coincidence that in those days the Time definiva Londra “Swinging” mentre Diana Vreeland, direttrice di Vogue, celebrated the English capital as “the most fashionable city in the world”.
From the primordial soup of the ’50s to the “end of the dream” in 1970, the work focuses on the path that saw music as a catalysing, catalytic element that inspired and was inspired by the other forms of artistic expression, thus creating a revolutionary, countercultural movement capable of sweeping the world.
The music of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Pink Floyd, Animals, Kinks, Cream and many other legendary rock bands was the perfect soundtrack of those years and still exerts a formidable fascination, highly relevant today.
SATURDAY 2 MARCH | 17:30 | CAPODOGLIO MURAZZI | FREE ADMISSION
Have clubs and discos always got on well with cinema?
Con Teo Lentini e Lele Sacchi.
Teo Lentini is a DJ and producer (among the many labels, the most important is the historic IRMA RECORDS of Bologna) with over 30 years of house and electronic music. He has played all over Italy and abroad, helping to consolidate and spread his music by working with the best international DJs in famous clubs and festivals in Ibiza, Amsterdam, London, Dublin, Paris, Lisbon and Barcelona. For some years he has also been organising the OFFs for several important festivals including the Torino Film Festival, the Salone del Libro di Torino and the Salone del Mobile di Milano, and of course also for the Seeyousound film festival in Turin. Music consultant for many Italian clubs.
Behind the decks since 1995, Lele Sacchi is internationally recognised as one of the icons of the Italian house electronic scene.
As a DJ, he has travelled the world, recording music for labels such as Soul Clap, Rebirth, Internasjonal, !K7, Crosstown, Rebels, Nervous, Snatch, Systematic. He has promoted events in some of the most important venues in Milan, from Tunnel to Apollo, from Magazzini Generali to Tempio del futuro perduto.
For more than ten years he has regularly hosted a radio programme for RAI, the national radio broadcaster, and holds a regular slot at NTS, an international magazine. As well as a series of collaborations as a music consultant, from fashion brands to university courses.
SABATO 2 MARZO | 18:30 | CAPODOGLIO MURAZZI | FREE ADMISSION
Lights, camera, dance! Disco culture on the big screen
With: Andrea Angeli Bufalini e Giovanni Savastano.
Andrea Angeli Bufalini is a journalist, music critic and writer, who has collaborated with several music publications, including “Radio & TV”, “Dance Music Magazine”, “Raro!”, “Musica & Dischi”, “Rockstar”, “Dance (De Agostini)”, “Classic Rock”, “TV RadioCorriere” and, currently, “Billboard Italia”. With a law degree, he is a RAI executive in the Radio Directorate, where his many years of experience include music productions as head (Hit Parade, I Concerti di Radio 2, Hit Parade Live Show, Radio 2 Milano In Concert), as well as being the sole representative for Italy of Eurosonic/EBU (European Broadcasting Union).
Together with Giovanni Savastano he has published the volumes “La Disco. Storia Illustrata della discomusic” (Arcana, 2014), “La Storia della Disco Music” (Hoepli, 2019) and “Donna Summer La voce Arcobaleno” (Coniglio Editore, 2023).
Giovanni Savastano is a psychotherapist, lecturer and writer. He began his journey into writing with psychology articles and books; then, after sowing a few short stories for Feltrinelli and Giovane Holden, he jumped onto the music wagons, writing for the magazines “Musica e Dischi”, “Classix!” and “Classic Rock”.
Together with Andrea Angeli Bufalini he has published “La Disco. Storia illustrata della discomusic” (Arcana 2014), “La Storia della Disco Music” (Hoepli 2019) and “Donna Summer La Voce Arcobaleno” (Coniglio Editore, 2023). The biographical essay “Gian Maria Volonté. Recito dunque sono” (Edizioni Clichy 2018) dates from 2018.
He currently writes for the magazine MicroMega.