Alessandro is an Audio Engineer Researcher who graduated in Mechanical Engineering (BSc and MSc) at Politecnico of Turin, Italy. During his Master's, he specialized in Vibration Mechanics, Acoustics, and Psychoacoustics with a Thesis project on Binaural Recording. Alessandro works at CNMAT with Professor Carmine Emanuele Cella on a project focused on modeling an augmented instrument.
His research started on February 2022, and it consists in developing a model for audio signal analysis and synthesis to be applied to Mbira, also known as Kalimba, a traditional musical instrument from Zimbabwe. His project aims to create a model suitable for all percussion instruments by using Max-MSP and Python libraries.
