"SHE DANCES" BY ALAR ON iTUNES STORE:
Producer, Composer, Technician, the mind behind alarmusic.com
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Steinberg Certified Teacher & Digidesign Protools HD Certified Operator in Music, Federico Simonazzi is the owner of Alar’s Recording Studio .
Federico works as a Product Specialist in ESOUND (EKO MUSIC GROUP S.P.A., one of the biggest Musical Instruments & DJ equipment distributor in Italy) and is responsible for Italian technical support for the brands NUMARK, KORG DJ, AKAIPRO, ORTOFON, PHONIC, UDG, ENERGY & ROADREADY CASES.
Since 2004 Federico is involved on the ideation and Beta Testing of new Numark products. He makes the same for AKAIPRO (controller & samplers), Phonic (computer music) and KorgDJ (Zero Mixer Beta tester). From March 2008, he is also taking care about KORG software plug-in and MIDI Controller for the Italian distributor EKOMUSICGROUP.
He works as consultant for dance producers, radios, DJs and musical instrument shops.
Thanks to the song Trouble produced by his student DJ Spy, the Alar’s voice was played around the world by DJs and published in several worldwide compilations.
Always updated on news in the music technology world, thanks to the participation in national and international fairs, seminars, and events, Federico is always cultivating his audio culture.
He took the Digidesign Certification at AGI Intl in Santa Monica, California, under the guide of Jose Chilitos Valenzuela. During the class he met Roger Nichols (Mix and Mastering seminar) and Robert “Bob†Fernandez (Recording and Surround mixing for movies seminar).
Since 1999, Federico has written many reviews, columns, news, and articles on music equipment related to sound and music manipulation and production for print, as well as electronic press sources specializing in music technology. He has worked for 7 years as a columnist for “Make your Groove†for the international dance magazine DiscoID. Federico has worked with the Italian magazines Fare Musica, Music Link, and Music File Magazines for which he has written articles and helped to create CD-ROM attachments. From 2000 to 2002, Federico was the editor-in-chief of the Hi-tech section on thedanceweb.com. He wrote technical articles for the portal technodisco.it. Now Federico is involved in the new DJM Pocket Magazine and Trend.
Federico has a collection of technical texts related to audio, acoustic, psychoacoustic, musical production, and microphone techniques, available to all his students.
Active as a Computer Music and DJing teacher, he has a lot to bring to classrooms around Italy. Federico has developed with Alars Recording Studio a breadth of audio and musical services with the help of his network of collaborators (musicians, singers, and speakers).
Co-Producer and writer for the song
’The Shadows of my life’
Artist: One Rule
Included in the compilations:
- M2o Vol. 8 (2 Gold Disk)
- Los Cuarenta Summer 2005
- Go Dooria Juice EP 01
Co-Producer, author and Singer for the song ’Trouble’
For the artist Spy DJ
Included in the compilations:
- Trance Energy 2006, Igor S RMX (Universal Nederland)
- Kadabra Summer 2004 (EMI/Capitol Switzerland)
- KK Compilation Vol.2, Kadabra 4 Compilation
- 12 Vinyl for Kadabra records (Jaywork/Do It Yourself)
Writer and Singer for the song ’So Far So Fast’
For the artist Spy DJ, 12 Vinyl for Youngs Odds (Expanded Music)
Voice for the song ’Take your Time’ Double H E.P., 12 Vinyl (SELF)
Background Voice and Voice Recordist for the song "Rasputin" RMX by R.P.G. (Blanco & Nero)