ACQUA (2024)

live performance by Leo Merati and Davide Angelica

Performance where video editing, mapping and live music create a wordless narration about water.

Premiere at La vita sott’acqua – Oratorio San Filippo Neri, Bologna, Italy

Colonne Sonore (2023)

live performance by Leo Merati

Live performance with music about the history and the different versions of the 20th Century (Fox) fanfare.

Premiere at Musta, Bologna, Italy

Stadi mondiali (2022)

live performance by Leo Merati with Adriano Ruggero

Live performance where I present new designs (by Adriano Ruggero) for the controversial stadiums of the Qatar Fifa World Cup as monuments for the victims of its construction.

Premiere at Nadel Mundiel, Bologna, Italy

Ai Music (2022)

live performance by Leo Merati with Pietro Bolcato (KLING KLANG KLONG)

Live performance with music about Artificial Intelligence and Music. A chat between me and an informatic engineer working with Ai in Berlin.

Premiere at Bologna Tranqui Funky, Bologna, Italy

Nai Awala (2022)

live performance by Leo Merati

Live monologue with music about Nai Awala, a lullaby written and sung by the Ivorian dancer and singer Claudine Dogbo Zemassa, died in 2009.

Premiere at Musta, Bologna, Italy

Pop Meeting n.1 (2021)

live performance (and, then, a podcast) by Leo Merati

Live monologue with music about one of the first experimental concert of Franco Battiato in Bologna, in 1972. The guys who organised it, now they are in their seventies. I met them.

Premiere at A Night in San Francisco, Bologna, Italy

Musica d’attesa (2021)

live performance (and, then, a podcast) by Leo Merati with the support of Mika Taanila

Live monologue with music aLive monologue with music about the history of the Muzak, the on hold music.

Premiere at Festival 2030, Bologna, Italy

Musica Etiope (2021)

a docu-podcast by Leo Merati

A podcast about the history of modern Ethiopian music and the history of the “Arba Lijoch,” or 40 children (orphans), the orchestra directed by Kevork Nalbandian. The children escaped from the Armenian Genocide to became the emperor Haile Selassie I’s official orchestra.

Amedeo Biavati (2020)

live performance (and, then, a podcast) by Leo Merati

Live monologue about Amedeo Biavati, the inventor of the dribbling move called step over/pedalada

Premiere at #BarrioMameli, Bologna, Italy