Curriculum Vitae: Carlo Giordani
born 12-23-1959 in Lovere (BG), Italia
Lives in Lovere, works in Bergamo
cfgiordani@tin.it

Carlo Giordani is an electronic engineer working in the field of the Information and Communications Technology. He is the head of the Open Systems Division of Cortis Lentini, a software house based in Bergamo. His task is to coordinate the work of Project Managers and to provide consultancy (databases tuning and sizing, local and geographical network design, software development methodologies).

Before this, he was geophysicist, developing signal processing software and electromagnetic field-handling algorithms, and was a designer of industrial software.

Besides his technical training, he has been interested in photography and sound since 1980. He looks to extract from everyday life, unexpected and quaint sounds, to produce emotions from the construction of a sonorous landscape that is behind the everyday hidden sounds which we are conditioned to ignore.
Role in Simultaneous Translation:
Carlo will work from his house in Lovere. He will put his extensive knowledge of amplifying objects to use by placing Piezo pickups on objects throughout his house. Objects will be selected for their particular resonant qualities. The stream from Madrid will be amplified throughout these rooms and the vibrations picked up by the various objects will be mixed and sent back to Spain.

Pictures

For the book: “Il canto degli alberi”, Maria Cornelia Giordani, EIFIS Editore (2004)

Sounds
see also:
http://www.logoplasm.org/sagita/nu_year/carlo_.htm



* Early experiments: collected here are my first compositions, some ingenuous, some other more compelling;

* The four elements:water, fire, wind, earth; I completed the first three and I’m doing the first experiments with earth recordings. A track composed with water has been used to the Silent Waters concert at the Film Theatre Orion inHelsinki in 2002 and in 2003.

* Le voci degli alberi:in 2001 I started this project, collecting with contact mics the soundsthat the leaves of the trees emit when they are jolt from the wind. At thestart this project was intended as a soundtrack for my sister book “Ilcanto degli alberi”, now it is living of a proper life. The recordings areobtained using contact piezo mics that I build by myself, applied to thebranches and/or to the leaves and then connected to a minidisc recorder.

* Quotidian assemblages:according to what I learned from Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnetin the last summer, I’m producing some audio pieces consisting of andbased around common everyday sounds from my life; okay, Eric and Jean-Luc work in real time, and I’m not able to do that, so I work mixing and assembling a lot of tracks I’ve previously recorded from the related site. For the time being the tracks are: “Talmassons”, “Lovere” and “Locri”.

* Last, but not least, I collaborated on the Roach dictionary project with a track, “Blokeish” The track started with bad luck (after I started the project, the hard disk of my iMac crashed, loosing a lot of work). Later on I had some other problems, but in the end “Blokeish” finally saw the light of day!

Gear
Usually I record using a minidisc recorder with some cheap electrect mics and piezo capsules. Recently I upgraded my equipment with a Tascam DA-P1 DAT recorder, 2 Audio Technica 4040 mics, and 2 4041 mics.
The platform I work with for postprocessing is MacOsX, running on an iMac 500 Mhz. I’m connected to the internet with an ADSL, 640/256.

 

About my work
I spend about a half of my time managing the technicians of the Open Systems Division, and the other half working as consultant in Unix and Oracle areas. In Unix my preferred activity is to build complex shell scripts that act as automatons to exchange informations with other systems (Unix or non-Unix); usually I do this work for multinational companies, that have heterogeneous systems scattered around the world connected via Virtual Private Networks; the common task is to extract and collect data from remote systems, send these files in a prefixed order to data warehouse and then load them into a database. Since the fluxus is asynchronous, I need to synchronize it with counters and semaphores, to do the correct sequences.

In Oracle I do performance tuning at database (instance) level, or SQL statements level. The first one is the simpler task, because with the instruments Oracle provide for monitoring, it’s quite easy (if you know what you have to do!) to set the instance parameters, looking at the behaviour of the engine. The second one is a lot harder, because often the databases are not well designed, so you have to analyze the SQL statements, collect statistics and then improve the queries modifying them or adding/deleting indexes or working with the data structure, without degrading some other queries.

I.T. Customers

Accenture Italia

AVIS

Cisalfa Sport

Hewlett Packard Italiana

IST

Nuovo Istituto Italiano di Arti Grafiche

Riello Bruciatori

ST Microelectronics

Valtellina

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