Meanwhile, in 1979 Pivio founded along with Marco Odino, the new wave band Scortilla, famous for the hit "Fahrenheit 451", in competition at the Italian music contest Festivalbar, in 1984 edition.

When film producer and director Marco Risi and his wife and actress Francesca D'Aloja listened to the album Deposizione, the couple decided to contact Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi to get them involved with a film project: Hamam, the directorial debut by Turkish-Italian filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek,[8] produced by Marco Risi and starring Francesca D'Aloja and Alessandro Gassman.

[9] The duo composed in twelve days the original motion picture soundtrack, inspired by Turkish musical tradition and melting ancient with more contemporary sounds.

Released in Italy by Italian film distribution company Filmauro, Hamam stayed in theaters for almost three months and the original soundtrack sold more than 300,000 copies.

Among the others, they scored for Outlaw, I giardini dell'Eden, Harem Suare, Casomai, El Alamein – The Line of Fire, Piano 17, Barbarossa, Complici del silenzio,[10] We Can Do That, La peggiore settimana della mia vita, The Butterfly Room, Razzabastarda[11][12][13] and for TV series Distretto di Polizia, L'ispettore Coliandro and Medicina generale.