Nicola Bernardini
Chair Of Electronic Music at Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia di Roma
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Bernardini is a composer and academic leader with 13+ years of experience directing electronic music programs at major Italian conservatories, currently Chair of Electronic Music at Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia di Roma. He combines deep expertise in electro-acoustic composition with decades of hands-on experience developing real-time, parallel audio systems across a wide range of platforms—from legacy DOS and Atari to modern GNU/Linux and web frameworks. His work bridges creative and technical domains, spanning digital signal processing, custom digital instruments, ergonomic UI design, and multimedia archive web applications developed with agile and test-driven practices. Nicola has led research centers and multidisciplinary teams, succeeding Luciano Berio as Artistic Director at Centro Tempo Reale and founding a free-software innovation unit in Florence. He continues to compose while steering long-term research projects, uniquely blending humanistic musical insight with practical systems engineering.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Music Diploma, Music Theory and Composition, A-, Professional Music Diploma, Music Theory and Composition, A- at Berklee College of Music
English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Danish
Github Skills (27)
csound10
react8
nodejs8
typescript7
binding5
lilypond5
mixer4
api4
ffi4
osc3
player3
ruby3
graphical-user-interface3
sms3
user-interface2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nicb/essentia-ruby
Feb 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
mtgessentiarubybinding
SMERM/EMUForm
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch, 42 comments in 4 months
submissions
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