Paolo Pietropaolo is an award-winning documentary producer, broadcaster, and composer based in Vancouver. Paolo's The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, an eight-part radio documentary series for CBC Radio, was awarded a Peabody, the Prix Italia for Best Work on Music, and the Directors' Choice Award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Pietropaolo also produced and starred in Ciao Torino, a series of vignettes on northern Italian culture presented in English, French, and Italian as part of CBC and Radio-Canada's television coverage of the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. Recent documentary work has included a series called The Nerve: Music and the Human Experience for CBC Radio's Inside the Music and a series on music of the Indian Subcontinent called The Subcontinental. Pietropaolo is often heard on Saturday Afternoon at the Opera as a contributor. He was recently one of three recipients of In the Dark's first round of grants for radio documentary makers.
Signal to Noise
By Paolo Pietropaolo
What happens when you work with sound everyday -- listening to it, recording it, manipulating it -- and then one day, one of those sounds sticks around for good? (more)
The Wire, Episode 5: The Sound Around
By Chris Brookes, Jowi Taylor & Paolo Pietropaolo
Somewhere between a documentary, a remix, and a music show, the eight-part series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, reflects on changes in both the composition and consumption of music over the past century. (more)
