Projects
Alternating jobs between sound and web design, I’ve worked on many projects since the 1990s. A few highlights of the more representative.
Sound design
Producing bass remotely
Exposing my process for producing effective bass tracks for the New York-based band Antiquity.
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Mixing Premonition and ruin
Full production for a concept album by the British band Ember Rev around a lament for the European ideal.
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Tom the Tow Truck cartoon
Sound design for the Paris-based animation agency Amuse on their acclaimed YouTube show, part of a series called Car City.
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Ruff Trigger console game
As the audio team leader for the Playstation2 game Ruff Trigger, I directed the soundtrack as well as created the sound effects.
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Vocal editing
Morphing vocals from a song to another using pitch and tempo editing; noise removal and cleaning up historical speeches.
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Drums restoration
Cleaning up annoying undetected noise; restoring the stereo image with drum doubling and drum replacing; extracting drums from a stereo track.
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Web design
HTML and CSS responsive carousel in Jekyll
I built a photogallery carousel in pure HTML and CSS featuring responsive images and touch controls for mobile devices.
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Minutes to Midnight
Why my current website, built on Jekyll and hosted on Netlify, eclipses the previous one on IA, performance, sustainability and maintenance.
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Silvia Maggi Design
Silvia Maggi is a UX designer striving to create meaningful digital experiences. Built with Jekyll and Bootstrap 5, deployed to Netlify.
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No Slack Day
A yearly reminder of how Slack can also be distracting and counter-productive. Built with Jekyll and Bootstrap 5, deployed to Github Pages.
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Reevoo
Reevoo is a pioneer of ratings and reviews services for brands and retailers. Built on WordPress with custom plug-ins and fully integrated with Salesforce.
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UniCredit
UniCredit is a leading European bank with a network spanning 50 markets. The brief was to re-design their landing pages for new customer acquisitions.
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Publications
Efficient productivity for music professionals
A free ebook about project management in the music industry. Based on the real-life album production for a British band.
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A trip to freedom from Berlin To Berlin
A real-life story of imprisonment and liberty, between two wars and three generations.
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A modern workflow for the multi-device web
A process analysis that has led UI Farm Ltd to their workflow for delivering modern web solutions.
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Spotify playlists
If Spotify is your jam, here’s a couple of playlists. The first features 35 songs where I played the bass:
The second playlist is made of 45 songs produced by me:
Simone Silvestroni
I create and produce sound and music across multiple media and make websites using Jekyll or WordPress. Professional bass player, composer and field recordist.
Minutes to Midnight
contact@minutestomidnight.co.uk
Milan
Italy