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Some more....here with a strat in an awesome Ceriatone 5e3 through a very light setting on a Suhr Riot pedal. [video:youtube] the video is ok...just the snapshot looks deformed Thanks, Alf.

Hello Everybody, an excerpt from my guitar duo, I play a nylon guitar here, to give some mediterranean dramatic feel to an already dramatic blues classic.... [video:youtube]

I do for sure!!! super!

Thanks a lot...well a lot of stuff I did is synth based ambient music, so not belonging to this forum really, but if you check my signature "Guess the Amp" link there is something else done with a guitar (same strat and same amp).

I'm gigging quite a bit here in Rome with a friend of mine covering some traditional blues in the style of Jorma Kaukonen, he sings and does the fingerpicking and I add some acidity with my slightly crunchy strat. These are few demos we posted on Reverbnation and I'd like to have some feedback, considering that we are doing something that is supposed to be much more in the tradition of the majority of the forumites here, and not that much in ours...although blues has became an universal language. thank you. Alf.

You can feel the night. Very cool.

I like this version very much....two choices I would have made different: for the vocals in the initial drum box part I would have mixed them with only a very in the face ambient and some whispering delays (double the voice track, run through an hipass with high cutoff and medium resonance and feed a dual delay with some cross feedback) to give a subtly disturbing and more devilish feel. When the "real" drums come in the voice becomes like it is now again, just a tad dryer in the queter parts. The guitar solo is very nice and with a lot of expressive strength, it kicks in with a bit of too much energy in the low end...a bit of it could be shelved off. I would put it more in the middle or just "stereoized" in both the channels...due to the sound and the kind of phrasing having it panned so much aside is a bit of a too "vintage" decision not consequential to the rest of the mix and the sound used. When the guitar goes rhythmic it can stay at the side but at a tad lower volume. Those are just "artistic" decisions that reflect my subjective aesthetics and not a technical criticism to a mix (exception made for the excessive thump of the solo start) that is very cool and effective. I enjoyed the song a lot, It doesn't happen too frequently with covers.

One of the weirdest pieces of music I've made was conceived after a sort of open eyes nightmare (not really that terrible, just a fantasy fed by old literature and books) in which I was running in the underground trying to escape something, probably a daily routine.... An underground animation artist, Notamax, was introduced to me by a common friend who is the organizer of an international short movie contest/festival in Rome and we talked about my music and his visual art. We ended up making a video. It is also posted on youtube, but on Dailymotion it has a much better sound, and stereo, especially needed for all the game of spaces and distances I tried to achieve for this track. Not for everyone maybe, both visually and acoustically, but to quote Peter Gabriel "it digs in the dirt" without compromises, at least this was our intention. http://dailymotion.alice.it/relevance/search/Escape%2Bambient%2Belectronica/video/x2z7ni_escapemusic-video_creation

In another forum a nice guy, called MrKnobs, regarding some bit/frequency rates discussions, said that he had the most boring sound samples made for his profession, that are recordings of flat tires running on different pavements and similar stuff. Maybe as a joke I asked him for some samples of those files, and he sent me them, 4 cuts 16bits/44.1khz wave files. Then he commented that he found my rerquest a bit strange.... I rapidly made a track, in which the only sound sources used are those 4 snippets of test recordings done by MrKnobs. I've transposed, frequency shifted, filtered, sequenced, delayed, frequency modulated and quite heavily manipulated those apparently flat and boring sounds. No other samples, no other oscillators, except for LFO modulation of filters and slow ramps for the FleXor sequencers. All made in Scope, obviously. Field recordings by MrKnobs: http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/OldAsphalt.mp3 http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/ImpTube.mp3 http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/PorousPavement.mp3 http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/Concrete.mp3 The same stuff after a bit of work: http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/On_The_Road.mp3

This is a song from a project that I don't know what future will it have, as it's a group made of a strange combination of people. A very old friend of mine wrote this French text many years ago (he's Italian, the choice of French was for the particular sound of it ), he was playing it on few chords on the guitar and I like it very much as it expresses very well the way a man who sailed all the oceans (as he did, most of the times alone) sees things in life and decides of what it's really meaningful, the contact with nature and a peaceful consciousness. I remade the music and played it on my Scope system, all the the sounds are made with the Modular synthesizer except for a Vocodizer used for the....vocoder effect. The vocals are from his woman's son, who's a nice guy that you never know where he is and how long he's gonna remain there....he's half French, that helped... I always thought this text was very "Zen", I tried to get that feeling of something extremely simple and essential, a very peaceful and warm sensation of resonating memories. We called this extemporary trio "Les Enfants Barbus" http://www.alfonsodamora.it/L_E_B/les_jours.mp3 I hope you enjoy it.

Finally my site is on line! I've put one of the songs of my CD Experience of Space as a free download in hi q. mp3 format. It's a song that uses a lot of synthesis, like all the CD, but there is some genuine percussive work and a slide acoustic guitar as the main voice. The title of the song, Ancient Skin, is related to our planet, its beauty and the signs of its fatigue, it's a love song, but for our home. A bit different from the rest of the CD. You can find the link here let me know also if you like the site Thanks.

Hallo After 2 years of work my CD is on CD Baby. It has been an hard work, all synth sounds used don't come from presets but from specifically built modular patches on the Creamware Modular. A lot of electronics but also acoustic and electric instruments. Please have a look: http://cdbaby.com/cd/damoranatale Thanks,