Category: music

Padova World Music Orchestra

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Padova World Music Orchestra

Padova World Music Orchestra (PWMO) is an open, free project of music and intercultural exchange, funded by public and private contributions.

The world’s musics are passed down orally, slipping past styles, genres and borders: they are rivers that look still on a map, but we feel them move once we dive in. Every musician carries their own roots and puts them at the service of collective creativity, letting them be interpreted, translated, transformed into the shape of the orchestra.

I joined the orchestra as musician and as co-arranger. Read more about PWMO!

New Landscapes feat. Venkatesh S. Kadandale @ MAC

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We are very happy to have a special guest with us:

Venkatesh S. Kadandale
Venkatesh started training in vocal Indian classical music at the age of 8. Besides being trained in vocal music, He also plays the bansuri – a transverse flute made of bamboo from the Indian sub-continent, harmonium and the piano. He is currently training bansuri under the guidance of the world reknowned musician Pt. Pravin Godkhindi and has been fortunate to collaborate and work with musicians around the world in various musical projects.

Caterraduno @ Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza

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It was a deeply moving experience to perform on one of the most beautiful stages, as part of one of the most beloved radio shows, alongside some of my favourite actors and musicians.

A heartfelt thank you to Mirko Artuso, Francesco Ganassin, Massimo Cirri, Alessandro Bergonzoni, Banda Osiris, Marco Paolini, and the entire Caterpillar team!

New project: Sonic Investigation Unit

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A Century of Sounds is a collaboration between Cities & Memory, the Pitt Rivers Museum and Oxford University — 100 artists, 100 field recordings from a century of ethnographic sound collections, each reimagined into something new.

Our piece, Talea, is built around a field recording from the Republic of Congo. The title says everything about our approach: a talea is a cutting, genetically identical to its source, yet capable of growing into something entirely new when placed in different soil. Fidelity and transformation, at once.
Talea is included in the project’s highlight compilation, out now on Bandcamp. (https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/a-century-of-sounds)

Musicians:
Francesco Ganassin: clarinet, electronics, dziga loop (custom made electronic instrument)
Enrico Milani: cello, objects
Sergio Marchesini: piano, electronics
Andrea Ruggeri: percussion, electronics
Gianluca Segato: lap steel guitar, electronics
Alberto Bebo Zuanon: double bass


Together we are Sonic Investigation Unit

Flow Project

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I am very proud to share I’ve been selected as one of the artists for FLOW, a soundscape project exploring the memory and present of rivers through sound.!

For my contribution to the project I will explore using field recordings and data sonification as compositional tools.

A collaboration between Cities and Memory, University of Padova and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, transforming field recordings, research and satellite images into reimagined river narratives. Launching at European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, May 2026.

Thanks to the Cities and Memory – https://citiesandmemory.com/

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