Alessandro Simonetto

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

Background

Alessandro Simonetto graduated, as an autodidact, in pianoforte in three yearscite web|url=http://www.onclassical.com/texts/press/07-10-14_simonetto_regala_musica_classica_(giornale-di-vicenza).pdf |title=Article on Giornale di Vicenza|accessdate=2007-10-19|format=PDF] at the “Steffani” Conservatory of Music in Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso) and in Electronic music (countemporary composition) at the “Pollini” Conservatory of Music in Padua. He also studied harpsichord, choral conducting and (traditional, jazz and electronic) composition [ [http://www.onclassical.com/texts/author.htm (Official) biography] ] .

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 [ [http://www.archive.org/details/AlessandroSimonetto-OneNote One Note: an algorithmic composition] ] .

In 2002 Alessandro founded the [http://www.kunstderfuge.com/ Kunst der Fuge website] , an exhaustive, and probably the largestcite web | url=http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8110 | title=Article on Creative Commons | accessdate=2007-11-30] ] , web resource of classical music in MIDI format online that counts over 16,000 files. The files have been produced by many contributors [ [http://kunstderfuge.com/thanks.htm kunstderfuge.com contributors] ] and are ordered by composer. A plethora of these files are licensed under CC [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ BY-NC-SA] licensecite web | url=http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8110 | title=Article on Creative Commons | accessdate=2007-11-30] ] . 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)cite web | url=http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7866 | title=Article on Creative Common(er)s | accessdate=2008-03-07] ] . Simonetto is also a "third part" sound engineer: he furnished recordings for various labels in Italy and Europe.

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

References

Other references

* [http://www.onclassical.com/texts/author.htm The biography (probably official)] at OnClassical.
* [http://www.commoncontent.org/user/6503 Alessandro Simonetto's User Info] at commoncontent.org.

External links

* [http://www.onclassical.com OnClassical: the Italian record label] .