Luigi has officially been accepted as one of the eight composers to join the SCL Mentor Program organized by “The Society of Composers and Lyricists“.
The SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS (SCL) is the non-profit and primary organization for professional film, TV and video game composers and lyricists, with a distinguished 65-year history in the fine art of creating music for motion pictures and television. The predecessor organization, the Screen Composers Association, began in 1945 with such legendary icons as Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dimitri Tiomkin and David Raksin among others. Current SCL Members include the top creative professionals whose experience and expertise is focused on many of the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy and pressing issues of the film/television/game music industry today. It’s impossible to list all the composers who are now members of SCL, but, among the others, we like to remember: Craig Armstrong, Marco Beltrami, Alf Clausen, George S. Clinton, Bill Conti, Alexandre Desplat, Ramin Djawadi, Patrick Doyle, James Newton Howard, Quincy Jones, Dario Marianelli, Alan Menken, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Young, Hans Zimmer.
The SCL MENTOR PROGRAM is designed for only eight composers of underscore for film, television and video games. During the course of the three month program, the eight participants (four in the Fall term, four in the Spring term) have the opportunity to interface extensively with working film and television composers who generously volunteer their time and expertise to introduce the interns to the profession of film scoring. Previous shows observed have included: the STAR TREK series, JAG, THE SIMPSONS, and SEVENTH HEAVEN and various films. Activities include sitting in on many recording sessions; meetings with major agents, music supervisors and performing rights societies; and spending time one-on-one with one of our mentor composers (including orchestrating and composing practice exercises from the sessions which have been observed).
SCL Mentor Program Director Christopher Farrell has just called Luigi to tell him that the audio and video material he sent for the application earned him one of the four positions available for the Fall term, from September 1st to December 15th. The composers selected for the SCL Mentor Program will be officially announced during the next days on the SCL website.
Watch a VIDEO where composer Alan Silvestri, SCL Advisory Board Member, talks about the SCL.
Luigi received an endorsement by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH for the new Nuendo 5 audio post-production platform, after the first beta-testing stage. The new release of the software is going to revolutionize the sound engineering world, leading the post-production to the highest level, for sound quality and ease of use.
Luigi moved back to Los Angeles, to establish his career there as a film composer.
Luigi completed the score for “Il Ribelle“, a docufilm directed by Giacomo Franciosa and edited by Rovero Impiglia.
The cues range from modern styles to dark orchestral underscore, blended with electronic elements: you can listen to some of them in the MUSIC section. This is the OFFICIAL TRAILER.
The EP of the Original Soundtrack will be released soon on iTunes by Soundiva.
Have you ever tried to play Ivory at 32 samples latency (0.7 ms at 44.1 kHz) with Vienna Ensemble Pro set as zero-buffer latency?
Or have you ever dreamt to play an entire 120-pieces orchestral template at 128 samples latency?
The MASS (Most Advanced Sample Server) allows you to reach these incredible results as simply as you imagine it!
The MASS, entirely developed by Luigi putting together the best technologies in the market such as Intel Xeon, Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, Vienna Ensemble Pro (with a particular attention to silent operations), is the most advanced sample server ever built, powered by a Dual Intel Xeon with 64 GB of RAM: nobody can ask for more!
With the MASS, Luigi’s setup can count on an unprecedented power in managing sample libraries, but also in the signal flow of audio channels routing to Cubase mixing environment thanks to the exceptional features of Vienna Ensemble Pro:
- 128+ instrument routed to the mixer as separated stereo tracks
- 12 groups with 6 different convolution reverbs for the best mixing environment
- 300+ orchestral articulations with more than 15,000 samples (only counting the tracks connected to the Vienna Instruments)
- a permanent template always ready to go, with no loading time
- all audio connections flows through the LAN
- a constant latency of 64 samples (1.5 ms at 44.1 kHz)
And, most important, the MASS can be used in a cross-platform environment. It doesn’t matter if you work with Cubase, Nuendo, Logic Digital Performer or ProTools: as long as you have Vienna Ensemble Pro installed on your main DAW computer (MAC or PC), the MASS can work as a sample library server as it were an incredibly powerful and fully configurable sound expander.
To see some pictures, go to the GALLERY OF MASS
Luigi got a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology magna cum laude at Marche Polytechnic University dissertating the thesis “L’Orchestra Virtuale” (“The Virtual Orchestra“), where he described the new techniques in MIDI programming and audio sampling dedicated to instrumental and orchestral simulation.
The thesis included a project for a new audio sample server, called MASS (Main Audio Sample Server). The project was entirely developed by Luigi as a projectual part of his final work at university.
Luigi scored a short movie directed by Alessandro Palminiello.
The video “Percorsi della Milano Antica” (“Paths through the Ancient Milan“) is about an archaelogical project led in Milan by Bicocca University and refers the results of studies and virtual simulations of ancient buildings dating back to the Roman Age.