SIMONE TRIPODI

About:

Audio/Visual Design

Having the capacity to divide between two different realities Italy and England where over the past 10 he develop and conceive his work. From 1990 until 2001 he is the front man of one of the most influential band in the underground Italian music scene panorama, Opposite Force with them he releases 2 singles one album and one Ep, the band also appeared on various compilation and perform live mainly around Europe. His interest since then was focus on the production side and the band outstanding production immediately made a big impact in the underground panorama putting Opposite Force at the same level of bigger American productions. In 2001 decide to take a specialization in music production and decide to move to Manchester where he studies Music Productions Techniques and Technology at the School of Sound Recording. Graduated at SSR in Manchester in 2003 in Sound Engineering Techniques and Technology and having the opportunity to work in the two biggest arts centres in the north west Region Cornerhouse and Greenroom having the chance to being in touch with two most innovative and dynamic reality in the contemporary Art. During his in Manchester he started to collaborate within numerous Artists on a musical level in terms of composition and production, feeling even more stronger the necessity to explore different territories in the Arts having the ability to combine his background of musician with the photography and the moving image. Since December 2005 until 2008 he will meet and work beside Award Winning Sound Department alongside with sound designer Maurizio Argentieri that (A.I.T.S Italian Association of Sound Engineers) in quality of his assistant.

Here he start to experience the work with a professional film crew and understand how the sound effect the images as a physical experience and as language of communication in association with the moving image. From 2009 co-Direct and manage a recording facilities ,and production company at the HU MAN Gallery (Social Enterprise in Burnley) Lancashire. From September 2009 Manchester Metropolitan University Department of History of Art where gives a series of talks of topics such: working in sound design, and music composition in combinations with new forms of digital media. In March 2011 he publishes his photography work on a series of stories in the publication called PANOPTICON with a group of Masters graduate in creative writing, including, writer and actress and producer Lucia Cox. Alongside with director of photography Matthew Norman (SOUP Collective) he directed and produces his first experimental short film IN HER EYES which is the first of a series of portraits in motions exploring the female universe. Recently he produces a track for Julie E. Gordon (Happy Mondays) that will feature on her new up coming Ep the track reaches the attention of Pete Maher (Mastering Engineer of U2, Nine Inch Nails and Katy Perry) that happily will produce the final Master of the track. He direct MEET THE KHANS the first part of a series of episodes that evolve around the Pakistani community which he is fully engaging and part of with since 2009 and he is involved in an on going film and sound project called The Movement of Beauty. He is currently working on a development of a docu/film on gender identity called D V R C T alongside with Italian photographer Riccardo Martinelli.

Respectfully Simone Tripodi