The Djambe as a means of non-verbal communication in the digital age

In the Summer Nights at the MArRC on the fabulous terrace on the Strait, the atmosphere is lit up with music and joy in the name of contamination between cultures, arts, and languages.

On Thursday, July 18th, at 8.00 pm, will be held the Conference-Musical performance “The Djambé as a means of communication not verbal in the digital age” in collaboration with the Musical Instrument Museum of Reggio Calabria for the project “Dall’Arpa alla Zampogna” co-financed by the Calabria Region.

Speakers: the scientific coordinator of the meeting, the historian Pasquale Amato; the digital journalist Ken Curatola, director of the Musical Instrument Museum; the curators of the project Marica Brinzi, Federica Caracciolo and Giorgio Furfaro; the conductor of the orchestra “Tamburi del Sud” Luca Scorziello; the musicians Maurizio Lampugnani and Enzino Y Barbaro.

They will bring greetings: the director of the National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria Carmelo Malacrino and the mayor of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Falcomatà.

Scorziello will cheer the audience with a musical performance to the drums, a musical instrument considered among the oldest – if not the oldest – and widespread in all continents.

Every year – the president and founder of the Musical Instrument Museum, Demetrio Spain explains – it is dedicated to a musical instrument with the name of the corresponding alphabet letter. The fourth edition of the study project, enhancement, protection, preservation and display of the musical instrument is entitled “D come Djambèe”. The first was dedicated to the harp.

The landscape of the Strait, with its unique embrace between two seas, the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian, is the ideal setting to talk about communication in any form. And music is at all times a universal language of peace between peoples and civilizations.