Matthew Graybosch reviews my album ‘After 1989’. I’m honoured and flattered by such a genuine and magnificent analysis. I strongly suggest to check his blog out, as it’s a goldmine of deep, authentic and interesting reflections. Matthew is yet another person that I’ve f … | Continue reading
Andy Rourke has always been my favourite bass player. His untimely death today is a hard kick in the guts. Among many memories connected to his music, here’s an old one. 17 January 1991 was a Thursday, pretty close to my twentieth birthday. Young people in my hometown d … | Continue reading
I’ve been using this website as a platform to experiment visual solutions that might appease my aesthetic sense, and at the same time be more accessible for everyone. That’s fine, many people from my RSS list are doing the same, it’s kind of a perk of having a personal … | Continue reading
I changed the website with a under-the-hood reworking. It involved a structure clean-up, CSS polishing, and a refactor of my alt site. Having two websites, each with its own blog and overlapping content, didn’t agree with me. I still wanted to keep my web development si … | Continue reading
Principles I stand for. Takes on attention span, sustainability, online social participation, and more, are connected with a will to keep my mental health safe. Most of the following points are interconnected. The glue that keeps them together is mental health. Modern c … | Continue reading
How I exploit the subproject functionality in REAPER to save time and processing power while mixing a rework of Ember Rev’s debut album. In Super-8 by Ember Rev Album trilogy The Cambridge-based band Ember Rev published their debut album in 2017 — a year before I fir … | Continue reading
The software company announced their switch to a subscription-only business model, leaving behind a loyal user base of several decades. People are not happy. From their announcement (emphasis mine): Since we started Waves, our goal has been to give all music and audio … | Continue reading
Three and a half years later, an analysis on how releasing my debut concept album had informed my journey as a person more than as an indie artist. ← Part 1 was about what the album meant to me and a few considerations about what a successful release is and isn’t. I’ll … | Continue reading
Three and a half years later, an analysis on how releasing my debut concept album had informed my journey as a person more than as an indie artist. Part 1 is about what the album meant to me and a few considerations about what a successful release is and isn’t.Part 2 wi … | Continue reading
My debut concept album has been receiving a bit more attention recently, especially after I stopped trying to sell it. Whether the new influx is determined by my choice to stop acting like a seller who needs to monetise a product or not, I’m happy to see fresh reactions … | Continue reading
I mastered the debut EP for IsadoraD, a project by Italian multi-instrumentalists and composers Emilio Albertoni and Bruno Valeri. A blend of electronica, pop and indie. Ipogeo by IsadoraD Stem mastering After listening to the mixes, I almost immediately opted for st … | Continue reading
Inspired by a brilliant debate on Mastodon, I outline the steps taken to remove the concept of personal brand from my online presence. Today, a post by my online friend Ali generated a lively exchange where all the participants agreed on one point: how we were all foole … | Continue reading
Field recording is great fun, especially when done with a precise plan. I finally started using my Zoom H5 for field recording. I’ve been quite consistently capturing several audio sources inside and outside the house. Here on the Lake Maggiore, there are several … | Continue reading
While helping Emilio Albertoni with his transition from Logic to REAPER, I realized how I enjoyed the process of simplifying my workflow as well. I’m going to be quick and straight to the point: no matter how much experience I have with the software, I’ve found th … | Continue reading
Minutes to Midnight just became a duo, after the multi-instrumentalist and producer Emilio Albertoni and I joined forces. All the info can be found in the rewritten about page. Our projects for 2023 are Emilio’s debut album and Minutes to Midnight’s follow-up conc … | Continue reading
A collection of productions released through the years that don’t have a full-fledged case study in the page Work. Nebbia (Part One), single by Arva Vacua 🇮🇹 Mix Tales from holographic seas by Arva Vacua Waiting (Imagine), single by AGA … | Continue reading
The following is a short post outlining the REAPER’s amazing feature called subprojects. I have a longer post digging deeper into the functionality, which will be published as soon as the EP it’s based on will be released. Preparing an album for mastering I’m curr … | Continue reading
Four days ago my friend and music partner Emilio brought to my attention a fantastic 24-hours-only 40% discount on the S4X reference headphones by Ollo Audio. I bought them. Several months ago, after reading a tempting professional review of the same model, I opte … | Continue reading
I think there is no future without the acceptance that humanity need to face degrowth as a proper voluntary choice. A friend recently asked if there is something I do in my day-to-day life that might represent well the current version of myself. While I knew the r … | Continue reading
The fantastic debut EP by Italian band Arva Vacua, Tales from holographic seas, is officially out now. Based in my hometown Ravenna, the trio ranges between cinematic suggestions and an indie-rock feeling, shifting the perspective of a diverse music background. I’ … | Continue reading
What follows is my recent experience with renewing an almost 4-year old Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 mobile phone, which cost £120 at the time. After replacing the native operating system MIUI 12, still based on Android 10, with the newest beta version of Android 13 for Pixel Pro 6, I now … | Continue reading
A frustration-fueled post on how migrating back to Italy two years ago was not the solution. A two-year anniversary of temporarily moving back to Italy is approaching, and I’m here ruminating on how naively optimistic we were when we took that decision. Nothing re … | Continue reading
I properly tried music streaming a few years back: I never was fully into it. Only after a while I was able to pinpoint my unease: it implies delegating music to a silo, or anyway a distant corporation. I’ve always been in control of curating the music that I like throughout my l … | Continue reading
Explorer is an audio application which allows to manage sounds. Working with mono, stereo and surround files, it’s an amazing tool to find, organize, edit and integrate audio within a DAW. All of this for free. After downloading Explorer just over a month ago, I’v … | Continue reading
I’ve finally switched back to Ungoogled Chromium for web dev testing purposes. Here’s a brief list of the steps needed to get it done properly. Installation on macOS using Homebrew. Once completed the browser can be found in /Applications/. brew install --cask elo … | Continue reading
My method to implement Indieweb principles and add webmentions support to my Jekyll site is probably the laziest of all. It enabled a decentralized reply system, as well as allowing reposts and likes. The first time I’ve found about webmentions was when Silvia sug … | Continue reading
How I’m currently managing writing new content in my Jekyll-based static blog, using Shortcuts on macOS. Ever since I went live with a redesigned Jekyll-based website, I’ve been looking for ways to improve my publishing workflow. I prefer working with a static web … | Continue reading
How I refactored my RSS feed from scratch using Jekyll functionalities and applying XSLT for presentation to render a human-readable XML feed. | Continue reading
My EP The Die Is Cast, produced with Antiquity and published last year on Bandcamp, is also on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music. Release The Die Is Cast on Apple Music ↗︎ The Die Is Cast on YouTube Music ↗︎ Notes Being on streaming platforms is not a mu … | Continue reading
An article by Wim Vanderbauwhede, Professor in Computing Science and a Reader at the University of Glasgow, on the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing, along with a vision towards zero-carbon computing. The emissions from production of computing devices … | Continue reading
How I added WebP images to my Jekyll-based static site, obtaining new levels of optimization and performance. What is WebP WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. […] WebP lossless images are 26% … | Continue reading
Unreal Engine 5 will enable next-generation real-time 3D content and experiences with greater freedom, fidelity, and flexibility. From the announcement page: Epic Games is excited to announce that The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience is now availabl … | Continue reading
I’ve finally published a blogroll page, containing a partial list of websites and blogs I read either through RSS, the Fediverse or both. Today, two new inspiring entries. The other day I published a blogroll page, like the ones that were ubiquitous in the early 2 … | Continue reading
Why Brad Gessler created Legible News, which makes a large size of my daily news intake (the rest being RSS, Hacker News and Mastdodon). From Hacker News: I created Legible News for news because the internet is full of so much junk and tries to be “real-time” or … | Continue reading
How I implemented a content security policy on a static website built with Jekyll, hosted on Netlify and loaded with several external embeds. What is a content security policy? From Mozilla Developer Network: Content Security Policy (CSP) is an added layer of se … | Continue reading
Two new beautiful songs by my friend Rachel Goodman, who sang on two songs in my last concept album. Reply via email | Continue reading
I joined Mastodon, as an experiment. So far it feels totally different from social media. I’ll be blogging about Mastodon and the Fediverse in the future, but I immediately understood why everyone says it’s not Twitter. It sure feels like a totally different space … | Continue reading
Quote from Nolan Lawson about the good, the bad and the mixed bag of being outside Twitter for the last five years. Twitter (like all social media) is an outrage machine, designed to goose engagement using whatever means the algorithm finds through blind optimiza … | Continue reading
My point of view about the pros of being outside mainstream social networks for the last 19 months. At the beginning of August 2020 I deleted all my social media accounts, except for YouTube. So, how has it been? I never intended to make a living solely through th … | Continue reading
Bandcamp joins Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine and champions for a fair and open Internet, says Bandcamp's CEO Ethan Diamond. I just got this email from Bandcamp, signed by its CEO Ethan Diamond: I’m excited to announce that Bandcamp is join … | Continue reading