29 October 2025
	Los Angeles, USA
	Theater Stage Auditorium

From Morricone to Bacalov: Southern Italian Cinema Conquers Los Angeles with MUSIC4D

On 29 October at the Theater Stage Auditorium in Los Angeles, an unprecedented event brings to the United States the great film-scores of Southern Italy in an immersive, interactive format. “From Morricone to Bacalov: the Music and Screen of Southern Italian Cinema” is part of an international leg of MUSIC4D, the project led by the Conservatorio A. Scarlatti of Palermo that merges musical tradition, digital technologies and artificial intelligence.

An ensemble of musicians, directed by Maestro Galeati and led by pianist Giuseppe Vasapolli and double-bass player Fabio Crescente, will deliver a live performance while a dancer’s movements are converted into sounds and visuals in real-time thanks to motion sensors and advanced algorithms. The music of Morricone, Rota and Bacalov thus becomes living matter, re-interpreted through the fusion of video, dance and digital composition.

“We’re not indulging in nostalgia,” says Crescente. “We are opening a dialogue between memory and the future: technology allows us to rewrite classical and cinematic music as a language of the present.”

Funded by the PNRR, MUSIC4D involves the conservatories of Sicily and Sardinia and the University of Calabria, offering a unique ecosystem of artistic education and technological experimentation. The move to Los Angeles crowns the project’s ambition to act as a cultural bridge between the Mediterranean and Hollywood, where the heritage of Southern Italian auteur cinema becomes the leading edge of future performative arts.