With unlimited possibilities, the new version of EXITIME is powered by the music of Luigi Nono and artificial intelligence.

It will be called “With infinite possibilities. From Luigi Nono to Artificial Intelligence” the twentieth edition of EXITIME, a series of concerts, installations, meetings and master classes that will take place in two periods: from 2 May to 5 June and from 15 September to 16 October 2024.

The EXITIME project, conceived by the FontanaMIX group and implemented since 2004, intends to explore the music of Luigi Nono in 2024, the year in which the centenary of his birth takes place, “not so much to look back with nostalgia, but to maintain a high level of attention on these great forces of the twentieth century, which launched the theories of invention and of which we are children – says Francesco La Licata, musical director of FontanaMIX and creator of the event – and the musical navigation of Luigi Nono continues with ‘a wide pattern to our present times, with artificial neural networks and the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and music creation. From here comes a reflection on the ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence.” Understanding what music culture offers, therefore, and combining it with current events, and its challenges, with new musicians and with a special focus on young people is the real goal of the project.

The new edition of the event, characterized by sixteen general selections in two periods (May-June; September-October), will be launched on Thursday 2 May at 6 pm, in the old Church of San Mattia, with a meeting ” The legacy. and ideas of Nono in today’s society”, which will see a series of testimonies from composers who contacted Luigi Nono. The same evening, at 8.30 pm, the concert “Nostalgia utopica futuro” will take place, with the music of Nono. , Schoenberg and the very first performance of something and the German composer Johannes Schöllhorn. The first part of the review will close with a concert on June 5 at 8.30 pm entitled “Fragmente Stille / Verklärte Nacht”, thanks to which we will look in depth at listening to two masterpieces of compositions by Nono and Schoenberg, and, finally, on the 10th and 11th In June the soprano Alda Caiello will hold a master class in vocal music in contemporary repertoires. The second part will resume on September 15 with further appointments.

The event will be hosted by the old Church of San Mattia for the third year in a row, a site recently integrated into the National Museum of Bologna, and a place where visual and performing arts meet and merge. “FontanaMIX, in fact, since its origin in 2002, has been carrying out its activities in the spaces of various institutions – emphasizes Francesco La Licata – mainly because the idea of ​​housing is fundamental: without it, in fact, the ideas could not have happened. . Projects it’s all designed for space.”

A detailed program and all appointments can be consulted WHO.