Diego Poloni

Music Producer, Composer, Sound Designer

São Paulo, Brazil
Multidisciplinary artist with 16+ years of experience focusing on audio and composition, working in the fields of music, cinema, advertising, art and entertainment.

"Diego is always ahead on ideas and information. He's incredibly creative and a well talented musician and illustrator. I am glad to have him as a very good friend and partner for several projects." --Lucas Rachewsky, Owner and Creative Director at Blackhaus.

Work Experience

Creative, Sound Designer

Creative, Composer, Music Producer and Sound Designer


Creating original music, scores, sound design and audio experiences for a wide range of clients, from small business to global brands like The North Face, Lacoste, Coca-Cola, Max Haus, Lenovo, Unilever, SporTV, among many others, winning 3 silver, 4 bronze and Best Performance in Phonography Production at the 25th Colunistas Prize, besides developing an unique style on scores and sound design for architectural visualisation videos while working closely with studios like Blackhaus and Neorama.
December 2004 - Brazil

Music Producer

Music Producer; Recording, Mixing and Mastering Engineer

Worked on more than 80 recordings from well stablished Brazilian and foreign artists like Francisco El Hombre, Àiyé (Larissa Conforto), Ventre, Apanhador Só, Thiago Ramil, Vitor Ramil, Breu, Paulo Chaves, People With Bodies, Campbell Trio, The Completers, among many other artists in projects that were nominated three times for the Latin Grammy Awards (2014, 2016, 2018), won Album of the Year (2013) at the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Prize and Best Pop Album of the Year (2013) at the Açorianos Award.

In the course of my career, I gained a reputation of pushing artists towards more experimental fields while focusing on emotional performances.
September 2003 -

Film Score Composer

Score Composer

Worked creating original scores and soundtracks for more than 30 movies, ranging from short to feature length, both fiction and documentary, several award winners, and being nominated for Best Original Film Score for "Castanha" at the 2015 Gran Prize of Brazilian Cinema.

Also worked on special projects like composing and performing live scores for silent movies like Robert Wiene’s "Orlacs Hände" (1924), commissioned by the Goethe Institut, Mario Peixoto’s "Limite" (1931), commissioned by Faról Santander, as well as in art pieces and installations like Luiz Roque’s Modern (2014), exhibited at the White Cubicle Toilet Gallery and Tate Modern, both in London, United Kingdom.
June 2008 -

Maldito Ofício

Illustrator, Sound Artist


Artists Management enterprise which worked to bring art to any medium by the management of special projects, trade in art objects, curating artists, settings and cultural projects. I provided illustration and live sound art for the long running multi-disciplinary art project and itinerary exhibition "Estrago" (2012-2014).
2012 - 2015 Brazil

Filmmaker

Author, Director, Filmmaker


Wrote and directed films for fashion brands and art exhibitions like Studio Clio and Up Design’s Inspira: Isabela Capeto (2013), Estúdio Nomade’s Agora / Ágora (2011), and Notas Sobre o Desencaixe (2011), a portrait about the artist Vital Lordelo that became part of his 2011 solo exhibition at Usiminas Belas Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, among others.
March 2011 - December 2013

Coletivo 4'33"

Founder, CEO, Creative, Composer, Music Producer, Sound Designer


Creative collective for the creation of original music and sound design to any media format, exploring the relation between advertising, content, original music and sound design. Developed works for brands like Lacoste, Max Haus, CFL, PDG, among others.

Founded by me and Lucas Rachewsky, after a little more than a year both of us left the collective to focus on filmmaking. 4'33" still exists and nowadays it is a very active and well known production house focused on audio for advertising.
May 2010 - September 2011 Brazil

Rockpress

Writer and Interviewer


Wrote about music, reviewed shows and interviewed foreign touring bands and artists such as Ian MacKaye (The Evens, Fugazi), Medications, Faraquet, among others.
January 2007 - June 2009

Sound Thinkers

Creative, Strategist, Sound Designer, Audio Branding


Sound Thinkers is a strategy multidisciplinary team that creates tailor made projects through its Sound Thinking methodology. I worked creating and producing original music, audio branding and sound design for advertising, entertainment and branding on special and unorthodox projects for clients like Coca-Cola, RBS Participações LTDA, Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, among many others.
March 2007 - December 2007 Brazil

Age

Copywriter


Creating and providing writing for advertising, marketing and other pieces.
2002 - March 2004 Brazil

Independent Musician

Musician

Multi-instrumentalist and active member of the independent music scene, playing solo and in several groups of national and international expression from a wide range of genres like My Soundtracked Life (2003-2006), Campbell Trio (2008-Present), Trompa (2011-Present), Apanhador Só (2012-2017), Yntza (2012-Present), C/open (2012-Present) and Diego Poloni (2013-Present), among many others. Played over 400 shows, some of them in big festivals like Lollapalooza (Brazil, 2014), Virada Cultural (Brazil, 2014), Contrapedal (Urugay, 2014), South by Southwest (EUA, 2015), Vive Latino (México, 2015), Festival de Las Artes (Costa Rica, 2015), Kino Beat presents KBeats (Brazil, 2016), Dia da Música (Brazil, 2017) and Festival De|Generadas (Brazil, 2019), among others.
1998 -

Education

ESPM Escola Superior De Propaganda E Marketing

Advertising and Marketing

July 2004 - December 2009 Brazil

AIMEC Academia Internacional De Musica Eletrônica

Advanced Electronic Music Production

December 2012 - February 2013 Brazil

ADALBERTO PORTO ALEGRE

Screen Printing Techniques on Fabric and Paper

2011 - 2011 Porto Alegre, Brazil

Casa De Cultura Mário Quintana

Analog Photography: Developing and Printing - 35mm and 120mm

2012 - 2012 Brazil

Casa De Cultura Mário Quintana

Analog Photography: Pinhole

2012 - 2012

Casa De Cultura Mário Quintana

Chemigram

2012 - 2012 Brazil

Languages

Portuguese (Native),
English (Fluent),
Spanish (Conversational),

Awards

APCA

Producer of the Best Album of The Year

2013

Açorianos Award

Producer of the Best Pop Album of the Year

2013

Gran Prize Of Brazilian Cinema

Nominated for Best Original Film Score.

2015

25th Colunistas Prize

3 silver, 4 bronze and Best Performance in Phonography Production

2007

Skills

Ableton Live, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Advertising, Analog Photography, Art Direction, Audio Engineering, Cartooning , Cinema, Cinematography, Composition, Copywriting, Copywriting, Creative Direction, Design, Fashion, Fashion Illustration, Filmmaking, Illustration, Literature, Mastering, Mixing, Music Production, Pencil Drawing, Propellerhead Reason, ProTools, Score Composing, Silkscreen Printing, Sound Design, Storyboarding,