Silvio Relandini, a graduate in Environmental and Resource Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at “La Sapienza” University in Rome, a musician, has been professionally involved in music technology since the age of 17.

Since 1995, he has regularly taught courses and seminars throughout Italy at public institutions, music schools, reviews, festivals, Courses in High Musical Perfectionism, Sound Designing, Sound Engineering and of course Music Informatics.

Professional Experience in Computer Science and Music Technology:

• Since 2009 he has been educational manager of MidiWare, a leading Italian distributor of music technology.
• from 1999 to 2009 he was educational manager for Steinberg Italy, dealing with the certification of specialized teachers on behalf of Steinberg (the world’s leading music software company).
• in 1999, through MidiWare, is the contact person in Italy for Sibelius, a software house that produces the electronic music notation system of the same name.
• Since 2007 he has been a Beta tester on behalf of the software houses Sibelius, Steinberg, Celemony for the following music software: Sibelius, Cubase, Nuendo, Melodyne.
• since 2011 he has been appointed Endorser by Magix, a German company that makes sound technologies.
• has been a Certified Trainer for Steinberg (software and hardware certified learning) since 2012.

Professional experience in specialized training in music technology innovation:

• in 2001, on behalf of the Italian Institute of Music Informatics, he supervised the educational coordination of 36 FSE professional training courses specializing in Sound Science and Musical Acoustics, Music Informatics, MIDI sequencing.
• in 2005 he organized on IITM the first training course in Virtual Orchestration gaining great interest in the academic world.
• in 2009 he taught the Virtual Orchestration course at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, as part of the diploma in Applied Music, the first in Italy held in a music academy.
• in 2011 and 2012 holds a master’s degree in virtual orchestration at L’Istituto Musicale V. Bellini in Caltanissetta as part of the event Great signatures for teaching.

He is director of the Italian Institute for Music Technology (IITM).He looks after the training and updating of the various technical figures, related to the aspects of sound, in the film and television sector on behalf of the Videoplay, Lambda Italia companies. In 2007, he carried out training on digital technologies to the technicians of AITS (Ass. Italiana tecnici del Suono), who are in charge of live grip and audio editing for Cinecittà.

Silvio Relandini oversaw, as head of music technology training related to universities and conservatories, the European project Net Music (2007-09), Leonardo da Vinci European program.

in 2011 he designs on behalf of the V. Bellini Musical Institute of Caltanissetta the first-level master’s degree in “Technologies applied to Music.” The master’s degree was approved by the MUR in January 2012.

Instructional coordinator of applied music technology courses held at the Forum Academy within the prestigious Forum Music Village studios in Rome, founded in 1969 by Ennio Morricone and Louis Bacalov.

Since 2014, he has been teaching music technology at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome as part of the academic courses in Applied Composition to Images.

Other professional experiences related to music technologies.

• Winx the secret of the lost kingdom, music by Paolo Baglio
• Winx 2 the film, music by Paolo Baglio

Since 2010, he has been collaborating as a music technology assistant on film and video game soundtracks:

• 2011, L’Industriale, by Giuliano Montaldo, produced by Bibi Film and RAI Cinema, music by Andrea Morricone
• 2011, I fratellini d’Italia, animated film produced by Lanterna magica and RAI Fiction, music by Rita Marcotulli, Paolo Pietrangeli
• 2011, Face Noir, video game produced by Madorange, music by Vincenzo di Filippo
• 2012-13, Una piccola impresa meridionale, film by Rocco Papaleo, music by Rita Marcotulli

He has been collaborating since 2009 with the Germanic Cultural Institute in Rome and the German publishing houses Barenreiter, Laaber-Verlag in the electronic publishing of modern editions of opera scores from the 1970s:

As Sound Designer, he designs the Impronte Sonore event in which a study of soundscape and sound diffusion in 5.1 surround system is being conducted.

Silvio Relandini – Publications

• 2008 produces for Hoepli the book Cubase 4.1 the official guide of Steinberg educational Italy.
• 2010 for ABEditor produces the book Sibelius 6 the step-by-step guide.
• 2011 writes the books Cubase 6 Lessons, Sibelius 7 step by step, which he decided to publish free of charge on the IITM website.
• 2013 writes the book Cubase 7 Lessons in ebook format with example and practice projects. He writes sound designing articles for the electronic magazine Sounday.
• Writes the technical articles with respect to major software being distributed at MidiWare
• He writes Music Technology articles for the magazine Note Musicali edited by the Inst. Musicale V. Bellini of Caltanissetta.
• Creates the Music Technology blog dedicated to music technology education and visited by more than 4,000 readers each month with 10,000 monthly article readings.