This website is for anyone who wants help with learning music production, needs tips, or is looking for a manicured list of links in the many weeds out there on the internet.
My name is Nick Salerno. I have been a multi-instrumentalist and composer for over 20 years. During my career as a musician I have played in numerous bands on various instruments as well as singing. From playing keys in a tongue and cheek lounge band that covered TV themes and 80s songs, guitar and bass in rock and blues bands, or drums in punk band, accordion, trumpet, ukulele, banjo, cello, viola, pedal steel. If you can name it, I have probably played it, or at least know what it is.
After attending Sonoma State University in 1998, my horizons began to expand to include jazz, classical and avante garde music. It was here that I began my formal study or recording on analog boards and tape machines right along side ADAT and DAT machines. My major project at SSU was to write, and record an original rock opera wherein all parts were played or sung by myself.
After Sonoma State University, I moved to New Orleans and took in the Dixieland swing. After a short stint as a street musician there, I returned to Los Angeles and attended Cal State Los Angeles to pursue a Master’s degree in Commercial Music Composition. My thesis project was a re-score of the classic silent film Metropolis by Fritz Lang using an orchestral and electronic ensemble.
Over the years, between playing with various bands, I produced 2 original full length solo albums which were predominantly written and recorded in Florence Italy. I continue to produce my own as well as other’s music.
A fan of analog gear and strange homemade noise machines I have recently become enamored with more electronic music styles and began to integrate them into my music.
Lately I have been focusing more on teaching Digital Audio Recording at Santa Rosa Junior College, and working on music production, film composing and baritone guitar.
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