Francesco Leoce

CEO - Co-Founder, Film Composer and Sound Designer at FDS Studios

FDS Studios

Bari - Gravina in Puglia, Italy

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Sound designer & Composer, 10+ years in the field, FDS Studios co-founder. Passionate about crafting soundscapes for audiovisual projects with a team focus.

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FDS Studios

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Bari - Gravina in Puglia, Italy

FDS Studios specializes in soundtracks, sound design, foley art, and mixing for films, TV and immersive artistic installations. We've had the pleasure of collaborating with important companies and productions, including RAI, Amazon Prime Video, artistic installations with visual artist and choreographer Sarah Brahim for Rihad Art and we had the opportunity to collaborate with Athr Gallery and Muhannad Shono. Also we were guests of Ahmed Mater in the Jax District, wonderful experiences. The FDS Studios, occupying some 300 square metres, are the site of our creation and experimentation for music and audio production, including rooms for orchestra recordings. This allows us to manage the creative process smoothly and coordinatedly, ensuring greater artistic and operational coherence in the creation of the entire sound process, which includes composition, sound design, foley art, editing, 7.1 mixing, and mastering.

About me

Skilled film music composer and sound designer with over a decade of experience in composing, arranging, music production and sound manipulation for films, commercials, documentaries, TV and video games.
Expert in music and sound editing software, with experience handling a wide variety of programs to compose, synthesize, and revise music. Able to play many different instruments, including keyboards, bass, guitar, and double bass.
Co-founder of FDS Studios, a company that produces sound material for images, from writing to realization, and a recording studio located in southern Italy.
Lover of "Sound" he has often worked as Production Sound Mixer and Foley artist for short-films and documentaries, completing all his works also as sound designer and sound editing. In collaboration with the Bloodynose collective, he produced audiovisual installations dealing with the creation of a three-dimensional soundscape (Formosus 2019 - Amazon Prime) and international contemporary dance (France, Italy, Saudi Arabia).

- Composed music and all sound and music elements for over 50 productions, ensuring that the company's high standards and all clients' requirements were fully met.
- Music composer and sound designer for multiple commercial videos; he created sound effects for several short films, ADV, commercials.
- Foley art & Sound Design for RAI KIDS - 2023-2024 (In progress)
- Elaboration of the sound movement for choreographer Sarah Brahim for the installation Soft Machines and Far Away Engines (Lyon Biennale, Diriyah Biennale) - 2022
- Sound Editing for short film Remains of Love Written and directed by Massimiliano Cosi Produced by Organic and Bloodynose collective - 2022
- Production Sound mixer, Foley artist, Sound Designer, Sound Editing for a travel film G.U.I.D.A. (Unique Geographies Imagined by the Inhabitants) Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (Italy), Written and directed by Massimiliano Cosi Produced by Cricket Production and Bloodynose - 2022
- Film music composer, sound editing, sound design for "Formosus. The Epic of the Damned Pope" Produced by The Piranesi Experience - Distributed by Amazon Prime Video (UK, US , DE, JP ) and Chili Italia - 2020
- Creation of a three-dimensional soundscape in an octagonal space the artistic installation "Formosus, The Journey to Salvation" comprising 16 speakers around the artist and all along the set perimeter - 2019
- Sound editing in "Where are You" written and directed by Massimiliano Cosi, Finalist at "Brooklyn Film Festival" (USA) - 2018

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