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CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Information
• Name: Balandino
• Surname: Di Donato
• Birth date: 3 June 1988
• Actual address:
◦ 33 Moss House Close
◦ Post Code: B15 1HF
◦ Town: Birmingham
◦ Nation: United Kingdom
◦ Nationality: Italian
• Drive License: A, B (Italian)
• Passport: Italian
• NINo: SR112519D
• NHS number: 7083958483
• EMPALS position: 12452524
• Mobile: +44 (0) 7454 419529 (from UK)
+39 380 9068113 (from Italy)
• e-mail: [email protected]
• web: www.balandinodidonato.com
• Skype: d4d0_ (Balandino Di Donato)
Education
• Bachelor Degree in “Electronic Music Composition” in the Department of Music and New
Technology at the Conservatory L'Aquila.
• Language: Italian (C2 - native), English (B2)
• High School Diploma in Science and Technology B. Spaventa (Città S. Angelo)
• Sonic vision: creating music inspired by art - Barber Institute Workshop
• Max/MSP 5 Masterclass
• “Lecture on nothing” – Workshop on event scores interpretation with Max/MSP by Walter
Cianciusi
• Midas Italy s.r.l. - CMDSE – System Engineer Training Certificate;
• dB Line array workshop 2010
• Recording with Dante Virtual Soundcard and M-Dante in an iLive system (UK)
• Introduction to MAPP Online: Using Visual Aids
• Crown USP4 Overview
• VENUE Live Sound Webinar
• Prism Sound Webinar
• Using of work equipment for temporary work at a height. Mobile work equipment, selfpropelled and not up to 10 meters. (Platforms, metal scaffolding, metal scaffolding and
ladders on wheels) (Directive EEC / EAEC / EC n ° 104 of 16/09/2009, Article 9) (Italian
Legislative Decree 9 April 2008 no. 81, Article 73)
• Entertainment Workers responsible for carrying out electrical work energized and deenergized - PES / PAV (Italian Legislative Decree 9 April 2008, No. 81, Art. 82 - CEI 11-27
"Workers of electrical installations")
• The charge of security: Tasks and Responsibilities
(Italian Legislative Decree 9 April 2008, n. 81, Art. 37, paragraph 7)
Current position
• Sound engineer
◦ DOC Servizi – I Professionisti dello spettacolo
Via Pirandello 31 – 37138 – Verona
C.F./P.I. 02198100238 – Albo Coop. A124423
tel. 045 8230796 – Fax 045 500820
www.docservizi.it – [email protected]
◦ Engagement number: 12623 - Rome Branch
◦ EMPALS Position: 12452524
◦ INAIL company code: 04466627/51
◦ Engagement date: from 11/07/2012 to 11/07/2014
References
• Jamie Bullock
Senior research – Birmingham Conservatoire – Birmingham City University
Web site: http://jamiebullock.com/
e-mail: [email protected]
•
Michelangelo Lupone
Composer, Artistic Director at CRM
Web site: http://www.crm-music.it/
e-mail: [email protected]
•
Laura Bianchini
General Director
Web site: http://www.crm-music.it/
e-mail.: [email protected]
•
Carlo Volpe
General director and sound engineer at Fox Sound Service s.n.c.
Meyer Sound Italian Support
Web site: http://www.foxsound.it/
e-mail: [email protected]
Skills
• General
Problem solving, working under pressure, working in a team, handworks
• Artistic / Musical
Contemporary music composition, interactive installations, video artworks
• Software
Max/MSP, Pure Data, Processing, Faust, reacTIVision, Logic, Cubase, IntegraLive and
digital desks offline editors, Office, Open Office, Sibelius, Mac OS X, Ubuntu and
Windows.
• Hardware
Analog and digital desks, analog and digital outboard, cabling, microphones, sound cards,
recorders etc, cameras, infrared cameras, and projectors, Arduino in combination with
different kind of sensor as well: photodetector, temperature, sonorous, humidity, proximity,
etc.
Past experiences
• Composer and Contemporary Artist (From 2007 to today)
◦ Composer, performer and software developer: Il sogno nel sogno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JPAN5F4NJg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgAj_yR9f9Q
◦ Composer, software developer and sound engineer: Lo spazio urbano, Trasformazioni –
Art Sound Installations by Balandino Donato e Luciano Ciamarone (L'Aauila – Italy)
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Company: Birmingham Conservatoire – BCU (https://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire)
Role: Audio software developer
Engagement date: from May 2013 to November 2013
Productions:
◦ Development of IntegraLive (http://ww.integralive.org)
•
Company: CRM – Musical Research Centre of Rome (http://www.crm-music.it/)
Role: artistic assistant, sound engineer and informatics assistant
Engagement date: from 2009 to 2013
Productions:
◦ CRM to Lima – Artistic Sound Installations by Michelangelo Lupone (Lima – Peru)
◦ Riflessi di Dolmabahce – Art Sound Installations by Michelangelo Lupone (Istanbul –
Turkey)
◦ G8 Summit 2009 - FROM LA MADDALENA TO L'AQUILA - Art Sound Installations
by Michelangelo Lupone (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Study no.3 on Adaptive Volumes - Art Sound Installations by Michelangelo Lupone (Il
Cairo – Egypt)
◦ ArteScienza 2010 – OperAttiva (Rome – Italy)
◦ ArteScienza 2011 – Stockhausen Day (Rome – Italy)
◦ ArteScienza 2012 – Sentire Oltre (Rome – Italy)
◦ La Viltà del Rifiuto, il Coraggio della Scelta - Artistic Sound Installations by
Michelangelo Lupone (L'Aquila – Italy)
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Company: Fox Sound Service s.n.c. (http://www.foxsound.it/index1.php?lang=en)
Role: audio technician
Engagement date: from 2011 to 2013
Productions:
◦ Eddie Lang Jazz Festival 2011 (Greg Howe / Stu' Hamm / Dennis Chambers: Tthe
fusion supergroup, Dadiele Cordisco 4ET, Enrico Cifelli Trio, The roar at the door, Lee
Pearson/ Lonnie Liston Smith Queartet, Tony Monaco Trio, Barbara Dennerlein Duo,
Francesco Buzzurro Guitar solo, Frank Vignola Duo, Joscho Stephan Quartet, Matt
Renzi Trio, Emanuele Basentini Sextet incontra Ehud Ashereie e Alex Hoffman)
(Monteroduni – Italy)
◦ Raphael Gualazzi (Pescara – Italy)
◦ Lunezia Award 2010 - Gianni Morandi, Patty Pravo, Ornella Vanoni, Mario Lavezzi,
Mario Venuti, Simona Molinari, Eugenio Finardi, Angelo Branduardi, Massimo
Priviero... etc. (Lunezia – Italy)
◦ Il mio futuro da adesso (Rome – Italy)
◦ Jazz space 2012 (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Tolfa Jazz 2012 (Tolfa – Italy)
◦ Teatri dell'immaginario – Racconti di giugno (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Teatri dell'imaginario – Amore e carne (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Anima – Il respiro del mediterraneo – Archeo Festival Artistic season Abruzzo (on tour –
Italy)
◦ Prometheus Unbound – Archeo Festival – Artistic season Abruzzo (on tour – Italy)
◦ La parola del padre – Archeo Festival – Artistic season Abruzzo (on tour – Italy)
◦ Johan Padan and the discovery of Americas – Archeo Festival – Artistic season Abruzzo
(on tour – Italy)
◦ Sik Sik – The magical maker – Archeo Festival – Artistic season Abruzzo (on tour –
Italy)
◦ Maria Buenos Aires – Archeo Festival – Artistic season Abruzzo (on tour – Italy)
◦ Thalassa...Stay Human... – Archeo Festival – Artistic season Abruzzo (on tour – Italy)
◦ Crazy Paradis – Dolce vita – Archeo Festival – Artistic season Abruzzo (on tour – Italy)
◦ Dekontekst – Archeo Festival – Artistic season Abruzzo (on tour – Italy)
◦ Teramo e Poesia (Teramo – Italy)
◦ Toccata e Fuga 2010 (Rome – Italy)
◦ Toccata e Fuga 2011 (Rome – Italy)
◦ Pink Floyd Laser Show (Rome – Italy)
◦ Miss Rome 2010 (Rome – Italy)
The night of the museum 2011 (Rome – Italy)
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Conservatory Alfredo Casella of l'Aquila (http://www.consaq.it/)
Role: sound engineer
Engagement date: from 2010 to 20013
Productions:
◦ Ana Karina Rossi e Mirta Herrera (L'Aauila – Italy)
◦ Olena Kurkina – Recording and mixing (L'Aauila – Italy)
◦ New Proposals - Establishment Abruzzo Simphonic Orchestra (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ National Orchestra of Conservatives (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Future Musics (on tour – Italy)
◦ Recording an mixing “Working with music” Placement of Tatiana Vanderlei
◦ Live mixing and live recording of the graduation day of the Composition of the
academic courses 2012;
◦ Live mixing and live recording of the Orchestra of Conservatoire of l'Aquila for the
Italian Radio Television (RAI)
◦ Live mixing and live recording of the National Council of conservatory students in 2011
◦ Participation at the National Council of conservatory students in 2012
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Company: Teatro Service s.n.c.
Role: sound engineer
Engagement date: from 2011 to 2013
Productions:
◦ Wiener Symphoniker (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Carl Palmer (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Archangel Tuccàro an Aquilano citizen at the Court of the King of France (L'Aquila –
Italy)
◦ 50 th National Congress UNGDCED (National Union of Young Chartered Accountants)
(L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra (on tour – Italy)
◦ Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra – Mosé in Egypt (on tour – Italy)
◦ Italian Financial Police Orchestra (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Poggio Picenze Blues Festival (L'Aquila - Italy)
◦ Andrea Rivera (L'Aquila - Italy)
◦ Carmina Burana Orchestra (L'Aquila - Italy)
◦ Musical of Joseph and the amazing technicolor dream coat (Atri – Italy)
◦ Mary-Ellen Nesi (mezzo soprano), Marcello Di Lisa, (harpsichord and direction)
(L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Inauguration of '"Auditorium of the Park" in L'Aquila - by Renzo Piano with the
presence of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ Musicomix Orchestra (L'Aquila – Italy)
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Company: Gem Production (www.tourmusicfest.it)
Role: Sound engineer
Engagement date: from 2009 to 2010
Productions:
◦ Tour Music Fest 2009 (on tour – Italy)
◦ Tour Music Fest 2010 (on tour – Italy)
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Company: Music Live Service
Role: sound engineer
Engagement date: from 2009 to 2010
Productions:
◦ Etno Rock 2009 - Radicando + Paap Kan + Teresa De Sio (Atri – Italy)
◦ Suoni MO'desti Festival 2009 - Cisco + Ministri + Orange.. + Cora & Altri
◦ Demo Morselli & Big Band Tour 2009 (on tour – Italy)
◦ Sempre Noi Tour 2009 (on tour – Italy)
◦ Neri Per Caso (Italy)
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Company: SLM Service
Role: sound engineer
Engagement date: from 2009 to 2011
Productions:
◦ Rossana Casale - Merry Christmas in Jazz on tour (Città S.Angelo – Italy)
◦ Billy Bross Orchestra (Città S.Angelo – Italy)
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Free-lance
Role: sound engineer:
Engagement date: from 2007 to today
Productions:
◦ Jeff Berlin Trio (Giulianova – Italy)
◦ Tony Esposito e Mark Kostaby (L'Aquila – Italy)
◦ International Accordion Festival 2011 (Castelfidardo – Italy)
◦ Soundlab Festival 2009 - Glasvegas + Massimo Volume + The Wave Pictures + Cometa
Fever + Jose Gonzàlez + Uzeda + Zu + Wildbirds & Peacedrums + Dente
◦ Soundlab Festival 2010 - ZU, Simple Minds, The Wav Pictures, A Hawk and a Hacksaw,
Virginia Miller, Sleepy Sun, Dum Dum Girls, Wild Nothing, Air Waves, Brunori SaS,
Matinée
◦ Vans Summer Rock Fest 2009 (Pescara – Italy)
◦ Regina – Official Italian Queen Tribute Band (on tour - Italy)
◦ Acquaviva Rock Fest 2008 (Atri - Italy)
◦ Acquaviva Rock Fest 2009 (Atri - Italy)
◦ Estate Teramana 2012 (Teramo - Italy)
◦ Official Rino Gaetano Tribute Band 2012 (Teramo Italy)
◦ Wake Art Fest 2012 (Pineto – Italy)
◦ Riccitelli Jazz festival 2010 (Teramo – Italy)
◦ Happy Trees Fest 2011 (Plastic Made Sofa, Heike Has The, Giggles, Sadside Project,
Siktis) (Teramo – Italy)
◦ Maqueta Day 2011 (Rome- Italy)
◦ Solo e Sempre Nomadi Tour 2011 (on tour – Italy)