Franco Mussida Incontro/concerto Immersivo

The Cultural Association Le Matine di Pisticci is honored to present FRANCO MUSSIDA. The guitarist, composer, founder of PFM, will be a guest of the Le Matine association for an immersive meeting/concert with a high artistic content. The only date in Basilicata for the versatile musician who will be a guest in Pisticci on Sunday, November 10th at Casa Elizia.

An unmissable event for fans of progressive music, Fabrizio De Andrè, but above all of good music. A cornerstone of Italian music, a legend for many, will therefore be in Pisticci as a guest of the cultural association Le Matine in an appointment that can only be defined as memorable.

Franco Mussida was born in Milan in 1947. An artist who has experimented and narrated music in various contexts. Parallel lives: musician, composer, educator, philosopher-researcher. He is one of the founders of PFM - Premiata Forneria Marconi, with whom he has released dozens of albums, composed, played and sung many of his national and international hits including "Impressioni di Settembre". Franco, together with the members of his group, is one of the fathers of PROGRESSIVE not only in Italy, but internationally. He has dedicated over 57 years of his life to the group's artistic experience, more than 40 of which with PFM. He has collaborated and played with singers, artists, and intellectuals including: Fabrizio De André (he curated the artistic production of De André - PFM), Lucio Battisti, Francesco Guccini, Paolo Conte, Lucio Dalla. In 1984 he founded the CPM Music Institute in Milan, one of the most prestigious Italian institutions of Popular Music. For over thirty years, he has been carrying out social work and research in prisons and communities, using Music as an educational tool.

Among the projects carried out is "CO2", a work in 12 Italian prisons awarded in 2017 with the medal of the President of the Republic. Since 2012, Mussida has made his research on the effects of Music on emotional structure known through visual art and essays. In this regard, between 2013 and 2020 he has written 5 essays. The latest ones: "Il Pianeta della Musica" (Salani Editore, 2019) and "L'oro del Suono" (Nomos, 2021). Furthermore, he designs and creates experiential exhibitions, permanent installations in prestigious museum locations in our country, including the Triennale di Milano, and the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, where he received the Lorenzo de' Medici award in 2015 along with Anish Kapoor. His research work on the Mystery that transforms Music into emotions continues to this day in the San Vittore prisons, a place he has frequented since 1987, and in the community of San Patrignano.