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Music as a vital urgency, a shared language capable of uniting and dividing, igniting conflict and creating communities. It is from this primary energy that the new exhibition at Palazzo Esposizioni Rome takes shape - a project that frames the 1970s as one of the most fertile and radical moments in Italian cultural history, with Rome at the center of an international network of sounds, ideas, and experimentation. During that decade, the city became an open laboratory, crossed by singer-songwriters and rock musicians, poets and performers, visual artists and filmmakers. Music was never mere entertainment: it intertwined with poetry, counterculture, cinema, and the visual arts, becoming a driving force for social change. Alongside defining voices of the Italian scene such as Francesco De Gregori, Lucio Battisti, and Franco Battiato, international figures who engaged with Rome and its imaginary emerge - from David Bowie to Patti Smith - along with major names in rock and jazz that shaped the era. The exhibition unfolds as an immersive narrative made of images, sounds, and documents, where music sets the rhythm of the visit and becomes the backbone of the story. In dialogue with the exhibition dedicated to Mario Schifano, the show opens and closes under the sign of cross-pollination: from the legendary Piper Club night of 1967 to the collective utopia of the Festival of Poets at Castelporziano. A journey into a time when creation ceased to be an isolated gesture and finally became a shared experience.