Dissonanze

The first week in May is when Rome's Palazzo dei Congressi rumbles with more than just taxis and scooters - the annual Dissonanze festival brings centuries of history smack up-to-date with its presentation of electronic and digital music. You've got to know where you're coming from before you know where you're headed, and after nine years Dissonanze knows this only too well, selecting a fine balance between originals and modern innovators, playing house-hold names off lesser-known mavericks for the kind of dance floor fizz that befits the home of an empire. Dissonanze has earned itself a reputation for bringing many artists to Italy for the first time, and with its programming threads a lineage from Italo disco and Detroit techno to current west coast hip hop styles, avantgarde electronics, and modern Angolan riddims. One thing the generations of Romans have carried down with them through the years is that sense of carpe diem - you never know what the future holds, so celebrate the time you've got. If only the gladiators could have gotten a rewind back then...

Address

Palazzo dei Congressi
Piazza J. F. Kennedy 1
00144 Roma

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