Past event

12 August 2025

Locarno Film Festival

10:00

During the 78th Locarno Film Festival, there is not only talk of film but also of opera...

In music, the landscape has been a great source of inspiration for composers of all times.At the Festival, this year it is not only about film but also about opera, lacing up with the proposal that opens the 2025/26 season of the LAC: the lyrical diptych La voix humaineandCavalleria rusticana composed by Francis Poulenc and Pietro Mascagni and directed musically by Maestro Francesco Cilluffo, conducting the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, and theatrically by Emma Dante.

In the first section of the Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana, Mascagni recreates the sunny Sicilian landscape by making use of the timbral use of string instruments and the echo of the oboe. Workshop participants will be introduced to the figure of one of the great composers in music history and some of his compositional techniques.Through a brief analysis and reduction of the Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana, participants will invent a short musical composition by processing, with new technologies (software, synthesizers, VST, FX), fragments of the intermezzo files transforming it into a "Soundscape."

By attending one of the workshops, the boys and girls will receive a personal card that will allow free access to all screenings of the Locarno Kids Screenings section, as well as the screening with live music by the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana (OSI), scheduled for Wednesday, August 6, and the Locarno Kids Award evening La Mobiliare on the Piazza Grande, Tuesday, August 13.
Please note that, in all cases, seat reservations are required, which can be made online at the Locarno Film Festival website or directly at the box office.
The card will be handed out before the start of the workshop, or it can be picked up starting August 6 at the Coop Info Point (open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.), so as to ensure that you can attend all scheduled screenings.

Born in Milan Pietro Luca Congedo, (aka) Stone Leaf, is a solo percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and performer of electronic music active on the international scene.
His research particularly investigates the origin of sound through matter. Marked by electronic synthesis sounds, Stone Leaf's identity is characterized by the elaboration of complex sonorities extracted from an analysis of molecular structures in relation to the timbre-rhythm relationship.
Carries out an intensive educational and pedagogical research activity aimed at developing new projects and educational methods on the relationship between new technologies and multiple artistic disciplines. A creator of audio/video installations that invite the viewer to live the work as a physical experience, Stone Leaf proposes a sensory journey where the theme is materialized through the impact on the senses, giving the viewer the opportunity to become an integral part of the work.