Opening: 11 December 2025, 6–10 PM

Dissonanze was one of the most visionary and influential Italian festivals for electronic music and digital art, active in Rome from 2000 to 2010. Conceived by Giorgio Mortari with the aim of bringing the most cutting-edge and experimental electronic music to Italy, over the years the festival wove together sound, image and architecture, giving rise to immersive and ever-evolving experiences. 

From the former wool mills of Pietralata to the Palazzo dei Congressi, from the Chiostro del Bramante to the Ara Pacis and the Cappa Mazzoniana at Termini Station, Dissonanze inhabited the city, transforming industrial and institutional spaces into places of encounter and experimentation. Its stages hosted artists and musicians including Matmos, Richie Hawtin, Ryoji Ikeda, Sven Väth, Moderat, Ninos du Brasil, Enzo Cosimi & Robert Lippok, Ricardo Villalobos, Carsten Nicolai, Charlemagne Palestine, Monster Chetwynd and many more.

Twenty-five years after its first edition, One Day You’ll Understand retraces the history of the festival, highlighting its pioneering vision and its capacity to connect different languages, architectures and audiences.

The narrative unfolds through a visual archive—photographic, video and graphic materials—and a sound archive, restoring the spirit of a season that marked electronic and visual culture in Rome and beyond.

Installed in the two historic rooms on the museum’s second floor—one of which is dedicated to listening—the exhibition is accompanied by a study day curated by Carlo Antonelli and Valerio Mannucci, revisiting with today’s gaze the generative potential and anticipatory spirit the festival expressed across its ten editions. Straddling a symposium and an open assembly, the event will involve professionals, scholars, artists and operators who belong to the festival’s memory, alongside those who have drawn on its legacy.