A Malta Music Memory Project (M3P) will bring together music enthusiasts and professionals to explore how a national memory of music in Malta can be preserved.

The M3P will be launched during ‘Notte Bianca’ at an inaugural symposium at 2pm, to be followed by an M3P networking workshop at 6pm at St James Cavalier in Valletta. The symposium will have live music by Rita Pace and Jon Mallia and will gather academics, researchers, archivists, journalists, broadcasters and creative industry professionals around a number of presentations and a round table discussion on preserving Maltese music in a digital environment. Live music will be performed between presentations.

The networking workshop starts with a live acoustic gig by Sasha and Sam in the St James Cavalier Music Room. Key stakeholders from the M3P team will also demonstrate how entries to the database can be submitted by anyone interested in contributing collaboratively to the preservation of the collective and personal memories. Performers and music lovers are invited to see how their own entries can also be created and updated live for all to see. The proceedings for this part of the M3P launch will also include a VJ session with Alfie Fabri, addressing the need for a video archive of Maltese music.

An ‘M3P Music You Don’t Often Hear on the Radio’ session will be held from 10pm at Hastings Garden, featuring R.A.S, Momento, Lesser Gods, Norm Rejection, Loathe and Forsaken.