composer soundartist

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: I am often asked how I generate certain textures, as well as bridges between moments in a song/work, how I imagine a certain idea, how I link certain harmonies, what place I give to gestures as well as sound planes to generate a certain effect and/or sensation, etc. The answers depend on the context and intention of the song/work.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: When do you need the finished work? (How much time do we have?) What ideas do you have in mind, what kind of sound/music are you looking for? And can you give me some sound references?

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I'm working on editing mixing, I also teach music. I'm prepearing a course on phonograpich poetics with a colleague and doing some compositions too.

Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?

A: Maybe sometimes not using the tools the same way as other colleagues or differing in production processes may not help the workflow, but it depends a lot on who you're working with. On the one hand, that's it. On the other hand, I also think there are people who dismiss the emotional aspect of getting involved with the client's processes and it's seen as overthinking. When in reality, in my opinion, the intention is to be able to communicate to build a bridge and ensure that differences in methods don't limit creativity and collaboration between people.

Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A: Keep in mind the purpose and be patience with the process. The first thing because if not it's sometimes a waste of time, and about processes sometimes we find a richness of materials in the process per se that it's a pity if there's no patience about it.

Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

A: I don't have promises but sure I'll do my best

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: Perhaps it's very intimate but a music of mine is now going to be released by Elektra music label (a Contemporary music label based in Berlin) and I'm very proud of it. It took me a lot of time to compose the music then look for the musicians, then the whole process of editing mixing took me a while, so Yes I'm proud of it.

Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?

A: Marcos Barilari

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both of them, It depends on the person and the overall sound we want to reach. In my opinion both can co-exist with no problem. Indeed if a mixing Is too digital perhaps adding some Analog sound can bring to the mixing a bit of organic-humane texture.

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: I'm composing since 2014 and working with DAWs, production, mixing since 2018

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: Soundscape, Soundart, Pop-rock Songs, Contemporary music, Experimental music, Classical music

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: With a focus on process and sound art as my primary language, I'm interested in exploring simple and minimalist forms. From the sound of an environment to the beginning of a melody, or a specific texture mixed from different parameters, then combined with other gestures, colors, and atmospheres. Through my practice, I'm interested in exploring the possibility of seeing sound as a sound sculpture, where in every fold and edge there is an inherent sonic psychology that dialogues with sounds that allow us to break away from the axis. I find beauty and power in deconstructing forms and playing with synthetic, analog, and organic sounds that merge into the soundscape of my own archives and memories, giving my imagination an excuse to see in my work a small fractal of the immensity of the universe.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Versatile

Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

A: It would be the ones that permites me to survive

Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

A: Artists mind-opened

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Less is more

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: It's a difficult question but perhaps I think my strongest skill could be versatility

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: It depends on the kind of song, styles, etc but I think I like to invite the listener to open-mind to different sound-worlds. I like very much to use imagination un favour of music that doesn't exist yet.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Once I have the concept or principal ideas, I like to follow my intuition to start composing, the use of techniques and mental processes must be in favour of that intuition. Materials could be any sound to start.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I work with my Mac, Focusrite Saffire as my audio interface, Sony dynamic professional headphones MDR-7506, about DAWs I usually use Ableton Live, reaper, protools, Sibelius. I also have instruments, Mic and a MIDI controller for vsts and virtual instruments/libraries.

Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

A: I like Tigran Hamasyan's music, Nicola cruz, Luc Ferrari, classical music, rock bands, I consider myself very broad opened in that sense.

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: Generally I encourage people to enrich their ideas with creative work. For example sometimes a song's already done so I add instrumental or vocal arrengements , maybe some electroacoustic or FX layers that I add manually or with a loop-machine process, etc. In case it is a song/work to start from the very beginning I like to spend sometime in pre-production talking with clients asking their interests references and expectation because it's crucial before starting to compose any track to have a minimal concept or idea.