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2017 SettembreMusica MITO Festival:
The Factory in the Cherry Orchard

Pirelli’s participation in MITO SettembreMusica is a tradition that has been confirmed year after year for over a decade, showing how strong the bond between the worlds of industry and culture has become.

On this two-way track of culture between Milan and Turin, the Pirelli Industrial Centre in Settimo Torinese – an industrial hub that is now well on its way towards Industry 4.0 – has often been a major arena for events of great artistic value. But never has the “factory in the cherry orchard” been such an ideal meeting place for music and machines as in the MITO 2017 edition. The event witnessed the performance in the factory of Il Canto della Fabbrica, which was commissioned by the Pirelli Foundation from the composer Francesco Fiore for the violin of Salvatore Accardo with the Orchestra da Camera Italiana. Fiore composed a new music of machines, inspired by the robots working on production, listened to directly on the shop floor.

The Canto della Fabbrica, the “song of the factory” performed at the Teatro Studio Melato in Milan the day before the premiere in Turin, was the culmination of a journey that, over the years, had brought Mozart into the factory departments, performed by the Fiati di Torino, the Pomeriggi Musicali suite conducted by Luca Pfaff, and Beethoven’s symphonies played by the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino. The “factory in the cherry orchard” formed a stunning backdrop.

The project led to the publication of a book Il canto della fabbrica, and the creation of a dedicated website: www.ilcantodellafabbrica.org

“Il canto della fabbrica” (The factory’s song): here’s how music conveys hi tech industry, its rhythm and its sounds

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