Who is S2D01
S2D01 is the music project founded by Simone Cappelli.
Italian musician, sound designer and experimenter, Simone brings more than forty years of experience in sound, music and technology into S2D01.
Simone Cappelli
Simone developed an instinctive relationship with sound, light and technology from an early age.
Music arrived early, together with a curiosity for radios, amplifiers, instruments and electronic equipment. Before becoming a profession, sound was something to listen to, take apart, understand and transform.
During his formative years, he moved through guitar, piano, private radios, tape editing, DJ sets and early technical experiments. His way of working did not come from a linear academic path, but from listening, practice, error and direct construction.
In the 1980s, he came into contact with the New Wave and Dark/Gothic scene, early synthesizers and electronic composition. After a period in Paris, he returned to Florence and entered the world of theatre, working with Krypton and director Giancarlo Cauteruccio.
In that context, he worked as a sound technician, composer and creative technician, creating music for theatre productions, multivision systems and spatialized audio solutions. Theatre, image, light and sound became part of the same field of research.
Composition
In the early 1990s, Michael Nyman’s music for Peter Greenaway’s films left a deep mark on him.
Those repetitive and orchestral structures shaped an important part of his way of composing: simple themes, progressive variations, layers and an emotional tension that grows over time.
Still today, many S2D01 tracks start from a precise emotional core: a moment, a fracture, something that stays with you. The initial theme is repeated, shifted, processed and transformed until it changes shape, without completely losing its origin.
S2D01 today
S2D01 was founded in 2016, first as a web radio and later as a music production project.
Since 2020, S2D01 has become the center of Simone’s work: a place where composition, sound design, sonic memory and technology meet without belonging to a single genre.
Alongside music production, Simone also develops MOODS, a generative sound design engine for macOS. MOODS turns selected audio materials into continuous, layered and non-repeating sound environments.
S2D01 remains the personal and musical project. MOODS is its software extension: another way to continue the same research into sound. Beyond the tracks. Beyond Music.
Name origin
S2D01 comes from “Studio1”.
The name refers to Studio One, the historic Jamaican studio and label connected to Clement “Coxsone” Dodd.
For Simone, the reference is not only musical. It is the idea of the studio as a living place: a space where recording, memory, technology and sound identity meet.