From Montoro to Gent: Valerio Ricciardelli anthropologist and ethnomusician and Giovanni Saviello musician and flute maker on 12 January 2024 are interpreters of an ethnomusicological journey, focused on the neurophysiological benefits of the folk feasts, specifically “mascarate, tammurriate and tarantellas” (folk masquerades, singing and dancing on the sound of drums and tarantellas) as elements of a traditional cultural system that is significant and varied in Italy.

From Montoro, a town in the province of Avellino, Campania region, south of Italy to Gent, in the Flemish area of Belgium, Ricciardelli and Saviello become spokespersons for a cultural heritage to preserve and to valorise, that through the key of musical language reaches to a universal dimension, in relation to the human existential vision. The active dialogic exchange of a cultural matrix and the metaphorical "journey", in space and time, of traditional festivals aim to create a "closeness" useful for developing greater awareness of the cultural and human richness that characterizes the people and for giving a wider range to the context of European citizenship.

The Italian cultural center in Grent “Il caffé” has created the following program: it starts from a presentation of the volume "L'orso Carnevale - il linguaggio del corpo nelle tradizioni popolari” (The Carnival Bear - the language of the body in popular traditions) by the anthropologist Ricciardelli, which enriches his talk thanks to audiovisual and photographic contributions about "mascarates and rituals of Irpinia". Then Ricciardelli e Saviello speak about the intersection between cultural anthropology, neuroscience and acoustic physics and they close the conference by a performance of tammurriate, therapeutic tarantellas, war dances.