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the international soundtrack festival

At the Milan Triennale three days of concerts, panels and talks dedicated to film music and its contamination with art and fashion

From 14 to 16 November, the Slam Festival will be staged at the Triennale di Milano, an event that aims to tell the many nuances of a concept in which cinema, music, fashion and architecture meet and influence each other.

At the center of the festival, i concerts. Among the live shows, that of Emile Mossericomposer of the soundtrack of Minari, nominated for the 2021 Oscars who will perform for the first time in Italy on Saturday 15 November with the concert entitled Recomposed. Among the guests also Dustin O’Happelloran, musician and composer who boasts an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for the soundtrack of the film Lion – The Road Home (2017). He will perform on Sunday 16 November Lorenzo Sennione of the most innovative figures on the international electronic scene,

SLAM Festival will host screenings and talks with protagonists of the international scene, among the main events in the Theater, the screening of the film The Brutalistaccompanied by a talk with Daniel Blumbergwinner of the 2025 Academy Award for Best Original Score and Dario Zontavoice of the Rai Radio 3 program Hollywood Party. Musicarelli Reloaded it will be a screening event that will include the screening of an excerpt from the famous musical Nobody can judge me and will see the participation of Caterina Caselliprotagonist of the film and a reference figure in Italian music and discography.

The program is rich panel hosted in the Cuore space with directors and composers who have redefined the audiovisual language. Nicolas Winding Refnexperimenter of visual and sound languages, will participate in the panel Visual frequencies dedicated to contemporary cinema in dialogue with Manlio Gomarasca. Mary Ramos in dialogue with Holly Adams and Dario Zonta he will offer a privileged point of view on the art of building soundscapes in cinema in the Cinematic World of panel Ennio Morricone. The panel will also be held within the same space Fear has a sound with Lamberto Bava, Claudio Simonetti And Manlio Gomarasca.

The day of Sunday 16 November will be entirely dedicated to celebration of the creative genius of Ennio Morriconea central figure of film music who left an indelible mark on the history of cinema. Between talks, concerts and a special listening session, the public will be able to listen to and rediscover some of his most iconic compositions within the meeting Morricone Secret with Andrea Fabrizi, Mary Ramos and Holly Adams. Among the most anticipated events, Homage to Morriconethe concert that will bring the pianist to the stage Enrico Pieranunzicollaborator of the Maestro, which will end with a talk with the Oscar winner Nicola Piovani and Walter Veltroni moderated by Egle Santolini.

Sounds Like A movie was born from the collaboration between Triennale and CAM Sugar, the label whose mission is to tell the history of cinema from the perspective of musicand which holds the largest catalog in the world of soundtracks from Italian cinema, with over 2,500 original titles and a roster of over 400 composers from Italian and French cinema: from Ennio Morricone to Stelvio Cipriani, from Vangelis to Philippe Sarde.