World Premiere at IDFA (Amsterdam)

[dawman]

5 Days to go.
Congradulations.
Amsterdam will surely be a rewarding experience.

Hopefully you can send me an mp3 if it's new material. I checked out the trailer but w/ no audio I grew weary.
I would love to hear the music used for the hair extension ad.
They looked like Indian women, did you have to use modern instruments or more traditional sounds?

[firubbi]

Congratulations alfonso,
when we can watch the doc?

[alfonso]

5 Days to go.
Congradulations.
Amsterdam will surely be a rewarding experience.

Hopefully you can send me an mp3 if it's new material. I checked out the trailer but w/ no audio I grew weary.
I would love to hear the music used for the hair extension ad.
They looked like Indian women, did you have to use modern instruments or more traditional sounds?

The trailer, as usual is a mix up of things and it doesn't follow the image-music relation. In the hair extensions ad there is the original ad music, I have no idea what it is but it's part of something real reported as is. In another point of the documentary there is also a "Bollywood" music used with regular permission, as the producer liked this track very much. The "bollywood" sounding track that can be heard in the trailer which basically goes together with the television "telenovela" images is done by me, as the disco track in the mode event, but those where just things I offered as a way to reduce permission requests for already published material. The core of the music I did are basically some guitar work, both electric and acoustic, for the more "spiritual" parts, sometimes together with some synth work, and a minimalistic,acid and somehow cheesy modern rhythmic theme to represent the social rampage and the new "western" ways of life. A deep, introspective, free on tempo cosmic feeling vs. a clocked, standardized optimistic but somehow bi-dimensional life approach.

The electric guitar is my strat played through my flexor-technology amp emulation plugin, which at the moment is going under further development as it has to be tweaked in its extreme settings, all the other sounds are made with Modular+Flexor, also some sample managing is done through modular, except for a bass line in the cheesy urban acid thing which is made with the SixString. Ha, a mention has to go for the electric piano sound in the urban thing that is Kensuguro's M3 version of Seventythree. Fantastic sound, i.m.o.

Congratulations alfonso,
when we can watch the doc?

Thank you, I can't say that....don't really know, but as I know of some useful news I will report them here for sure.

[dawman]

I heard your Guitar device over the phone when I was chattin' w/ GaryB a while back, it sounded really nice.
He must have a quality speakerphone, because I asked him if he was playing a Gibson ES335, as it had that semi hollow humbucking sound.
Nice.

[alfonso]

I heard your Guitar device over the phone when I was chattin' w/ GaryB a while back, it sounded really nice.
He must have a quality speakerphone, because I asked him if he was playing a Gibson ES335, as it had that semi hollow humbucking sound.
Nice.

It is getting much better than that . there were some extreme settings in which some digital clipping could occur, now it's mostly gone. I want it to saturate in a pleasant way, no matter how brutal the signal at its input, but without using limiting or anything that can alter the dynamic responsiveness which is my first goal. It has to feel completely like an analog unit. I said too much now...


Anyway, i think that any guitar sound over the phone will resemble an hollowbody....

[dawman]

Then I shall have a speakerphone module made for Six-String to better emulate the semi hollow body sound............ankyu.

[alfonso]

So a flatrate is absolutely necessary to build an outboard loop for this effect

I remember in the old times, with atari midi sequencing and sync'ed tape and without that paradise of fx we have now that I had to achieve the sound of an acoustic guitar coming from a small radio for a radio play demo I was recording.
The eq's of my limited mixer didn't cut the exact effect I was after. After some thinking, I took an acoustic out to the bar in front of my former house in Rome where they had public phone. You had to see the faces of the people and their eyes full of pity while i was recording my guitar licks to my answering machine....it came great though. I then placed a mic over the honky speaker and voilà. it was back in the early 80's.....

[dawman]

Good old Opcode.