Episode 0 — 12 January 2027
Il tamburello che non c'era
The opening episode: my own path, from the village feasts of southern Italy to stages around the world, and the question the podcast starts from.
Podcast · in Italian
Materia Sonora
Conversations on the Italian frame drum
The Italian frame drum, told by the people who play it: those who keep it alive at village feasts, those who reinvented it, those who teach it and those who study it.
Maybe there is a tamburello in your home too: hanging in the kitchen, or forgotten in the cellar. And yet, inside a community, the very same instrument carries a whole night of celebration. Materia Sonora starts from one question: why does an instrument so necessary within a community become an ornament as soon as it leaves it?
First episode Tuesday 12 January 2027 · Then a new episode every two weeks, on Tuesdays
Listen to the trailer
How it works
In each episode I meet someone who plays this instrument: those who keep it alive at village feasts, those who reinvented it on stage and in schools, those who teach it and those who study it. We talk about origins, gestures, change and transmission, and we listen to the guests' own sounds: short fragments that open up their world.
Each episode is a conversation, audio only, in Italian. I don't have a ready answer: what I have is a path, my own, and at every step a question. First I ask it of myself. Then of the people who play this instrument, build it, study it.
Every episode ends the same way: “Instruments are not symbols. They are matter.”
Season one
Episodes
The guests and episodes of season one will appear here one at a time, with links to listen.
Where to listen
From 15 December 2026 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and YouTube. Links to every episode will be on this page.
To write to the podcast: podcast@andreapiccioni.net