POSTCARDS FROM ITALY feat. Sinan Arat
Schedule
Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 08:30 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Mauritsstraat 16, , 3012 CJ Rotterdam, Netherlands | Rotterdam, ZH
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At Matrix Rotterdam, the modular project of Duo Bottasso takes on a more intimate form: a concert shaped by archival cinema, acoustic instruments, and intercultural encounter.Early 20th-century Italian films —once conceived as cinematic postcards— trace cities, landscapes, labour, and political struggles from a country in rapid transformation, in the years preceding the authoritarian crisis of fascism. These images return not as nostalgia, but as living material: fragments through which to question how memory travels, how histories sediment, and how the past continues to reverberate in the present.
For this postcard, Duo Bottasso invites Sinan Arat to join the project with his ney. Carried by breath and shaped by centuries of transmission, its sound introduces another geography into the work—one that speaks of crossings, displacement, gifts and exchanges, and of traditions circulating beyond fixed borders. Of what moves along mountain paths or across the sea, sometimes in secrecy, sometimes in freedom—at its own pace, following its own cycles.
with:
Nicolò Bottasso: violin, tenor d’amore violin, live visuals
Simone Bottasso: organetto, bells, live electronics
Agnese Valmaggia: e-drums
feat.
Sinan Arat: ney
Doors open 19.30
Footage by courtesy of
EYE Filmmuseum - Amsterdam
Thanks to Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Amsterdam, Istituto
Ernesto de Martino, Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento
Operaio e Democratico, C.R.I.C.D.
With the support of Norma Fonds.
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Where is it happening?
Mauritsstraat 16, , 3012 CJ Rotterdam, Netherlands, Mauritsstraat 16, 3012 CJ Rotterdam, Nederland, Rotterdam, NetherlandsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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