Alessandro Simonetto

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Alessandro Simonetto (Bassano del Grappa 1974) is an Italian musician and sound engineer.

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[edit] Background

“ a pianist with immense talent; he will most surely make his mark in the musical profession [...][1][2] ”

Alessandro Simonetto graduated, as an autodidact, in pianoforte in three years[3] at the “Steffani” Conservatory of Music in Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso); at the same time he studied with important pianists including Gabriele Di Toma, Massimo Somenzi, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Andràs Schiff (for classical music performance); Marco Fumo (ragtime music); Garry Dial, Cecil McBee, John Riley (jazz harmony and improvisation); Eric James[2] (silent-film music). He graduated in Electronic Music (countemporary composition) under the guidance of Paolo Zavagna and Nicola Bernardini. Also studied harpsichord, choral conducting and (traditional, jazz and electronic) composition[4].

[edit] Activities

At the very early age of 6 he started composing music for piano (including a Mazurkas book inspired by Chopin). He then was mostly inspired by the contrapuntual method: here he wrote for disklavier, organ and chamber music, choral music (choral settings). With the electronic he confined in the field of algorithm[5].

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In 2002 Alessandro also founded the Kunst der Fuge website, an exhaustive, and probably the largest[6], web resource of classical music in MIDI format online that counts over 16,000 files. The files have been produced by many contributors[7] and are ordered by composer. A plethora of these files are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA license[6]. Thanks to the above mentioned web project Simonetto collaborated with productors of samples audio (MilanDigitalAudio, OrganArtMedia), book and record houses (Centaur Audio Press, Seneca Edizioni), websites and narrators.

On MIDI he recorded c. 500 pieces, using a technique perfected and tuned during various years of research and which are at times applied to mere sequences.

As a sound technician Alessandro is the founder of OnClassical, the independent (net) label, acclaimed as the first one to use CC licenses in Italy (and in the world if applied to classical music own productions)[8]. Simonetto is also a "third part" sound engineer: he furnished recordings for various labels in Italy and Europe.

The recent project by Simonetto is classicaland.com, a free (web)resource of old sheet music books re-edited in portable document formats (PDF).

[edit] References

  1. ^ James, Eric. Quotation at Mediateca delle Marche.
  2. ^ a b Music Associate of the late Sir Charles Spenser Chaplin. Retrieved on 1999.
  3. ^ Article on Giornale di Vicenza. Retrieved on 2007-10-19.
  4. ^ (Official) biography
  5. ^ One Note: an algorithmic composition
  6. ^ a b Article on Creative Commons. Retrieved on 2007-11-30].
  7. ^ kunstderfuge.com contributors
  8. ^ Article on Creative Common(er)s. Retrieved on 2008-03-07].

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