Alessandro is an Italian composer, sound designer and publisher, whose work is rooted in a continuous compositional research that unfolds both through technological means and intellectual inquiry.
He graduated with highest honors from the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of Milan: in Composition, in Electronic Music (with distinction), and in Sound Technology applied to music creation, presenting a thesis on Sound Design and earning the 2nd Level Academic Diploma with distinction. During his studies, he was awarded three scholarships and appointed assistant at the Department of Electronic Music and the Live Electronics courses of the Conservatory.
Building on his academic background and sustained artistic research, Alessandro develops his knowledge in experimental and electroacoustic music, exploring psychoacoustics and advanced sound design techniques.
In this journey, he draws on the legacy of composers who elevated timbre to an unprecedented role: from the Futurist manifesto The Art of Noises to Edgard Varèse’s definition of music as organized sound; from Pierre Schaeffer’s notions of the sound object and reduced listening, through the concepts of open form and controlled aleatorism; to the aesthetic revolution and sonic explorations of John Cage, the conceptual contaminations of Marcel Duchamp, and Dennis Smalley’s Spectromorphology and the contemporary developments of these visions.
As affirmed by several pivotal figures of the twentieth century, who laid the foundations for new forms of musical expression, the composer’s ultimate frontier is the composition of sound itself. In this perspective, the studio becomes a true compositional mean: a place where sound is no longer merely documented but shaped into autonomous musical material.
Alessandro’s work is focused on this dimension, venturing into micro-composition, shaping sound as an autonomous musical form, and following in the footsteps of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti, François Bayle and Horacio Vaggione, to name a few, who conceived the creation of sound as a compositional act in itself, permanently redefining and expanding the concept of Music and demonstrating how new technologies enable new ways of composing and wider aesthetic dimensions.
In 2010, some of his sonic works, shared online, caught the attention of an American music label: since then, his creations have also been used in the international film industry, and have been published by Warner Chappell PM and other major publishers.
Credits include:
- ♦ Sonic creations featured in many Hollywood movie trailers, TV and high-end video game campaigns (Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Disney, Marvel Studios, NBCUniversal, Dreamworks, Apple TV, Amazon Studios, Netflix, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A24…)
- ♦ Commissioned art / electroacoustic music and composition competitions awards (Triennale Museum of Milan, Festival Vuotociclo, PAN – Palace of Arts (Naples), Festival MiTo, Orchestre de Flûtes Français – Salle Cortot (Paris), Conservatory of Milan – Puccini’s Hall, Orchestra Milano Classica, AGON, Fondazione Dragoni, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado (Milan), Brera Academy, Ensemble Risognanze, Auditorium of RTSI (Switzerland), International Composition Competition – City of Como, Festival Sound Ways – Saint Peterburg...)
- ♦ Sound Design for TV, Promos and Music Videos (Lufthansa, BMW, Mercedes, AUDI, DAZN, Campari, OBI, Replay, Universal Music - Rovazzi...)
- ♦ Sound Design and Sound ID for electric vehicles (AVAS, ADAS, UI/UX, Sound logo)
- ♦ Virtual instruments (Zero-G, Gothic Instruments)
- ♦ Teaching at the University (Professorship in Sound Design at Academy of Arts of Urbino, lectures on Audio Branding and Sound Logo at IED)
- ♦ Recording, mixing and mastering of contemporary classical and electroacoustic music albums featuring unreleased material of composers such as John Cage and collaborations with performers from La Scala (Milan), published by Da Vinci Classics, Gruenrekorder, Leo Records, Rugginenti, Dodicilune, which have been praised by several audiophile magazines.
- ♦ Features and interviews on magazines such as Sound On Sound, Electronic Musician, the MIT Press Computer Music Journal, MusicTech, Future Music, Audiofader...