7-6-2006: I'm gonna be this summer in Valencia at the 10th Campus Party, collaborating with the Game Development area. We're still discussing the contents, but I will be talking very probably about Advanced Sampling Techniques and Interactive Audio in Games. And, erm, drinking great amounts of horchata too xD

28-4-2006: At last TO:Crossfire has been released! Go and grab it. You can also see a nice trailer here

27-3-2006: Too much work makes Pablo a dull boy. Lots and lots of things coming my way right now, which is kind of cool actually. Not getting enough sleep, but hey, that's what coffee is for, isn't it? ;) Here you got a military/suspenseful track I've been making for a classic TO map which will be featured in Crossfire: Province

9-1-2006: I have put together a demoreel so now you can listen in 3 minutes to a bunch of my best music in a single mp3. Check it out =)

24-12-2005: Aquaplaning has been one of the winners of the Fortuna Sounds contest, out of more than 500 bands. We'll be getting into the studio shortly to record some tracks and the song Hola Chico! will be published in a compilation with all the other winner songs

5-12-2005: Meristation has published the first preview of El Enigma de la Abadía, which features a lot of new screenshots. It's in spanish, in case you don't speak the language it just says the game is gonna be great :P

7-11-2005: Rachel Cordone asked me for a track to include it in her new UT2004 capture the flag map. With a great piratesque look, its name is Cannon Fodder and you can download the mp3 here

5-11-2005: One of the games I'm making music for, El Enigma de la Abadía, has won the ArtFutura '05 Technology Award. This is one of the themes for the Scriptorium

22-6-2005: I've been asked to talk about Game Audio in the Campus Party Game Developers Conference, which will take place in Valencia, Spain. July 26th - 31st. I'll be talking about music, voice over, sound design, programming... My speech is scheduled for July 29th, 19:00, so see you there!

7-5-2005: New track for Medina, a Crossfire map set up somewhere in the north of Africa. By the way, Gamestar, the biggest magazine for gamers in Germany has released a note about Crossfire in its latest issue which you can see here

3-4-2005: One of the projects I've been working for, TO:Crossfire, has gone public. There is still some work to do before it is released, but this is a nice first step. The url to the web is www.to-crossfire.net.

31-3-2005: A shareware puzzle game I have made the music and sound design for, The Cursed Wheel, has just been released. You can go to www.funmangames.com and give it a try. Here you got the main theme

18-3-2005: As from today I am a member of the Game Audio Network Guild, home of the best game audio professionals. Let's see if we can make meetings here in Europe as crazy as the ones they do across the ocean ;)

11-2-2005: I joined the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores today. I had been postponing this since I disapprove of some of their methods, but the new manager of Aquaplaning wanted us to register our songs with them. Let's hope it's for the best

31-1-2005: After spending the last couple of months listening to Seijo Omure Ki, I've composed the track for James "Psycho" Baxter japanese map, which is gonna be included in the upcoming project Crossfire. You can find it here

17-11-2004: I have encoded in DivX and uploaded a video I made back in 2000. dirdam (32.2mb) tries to show my particular view of the city I live in (the name is Madrid spelled backwards), quite different from the stress and haste some people associate with it. Though the tools I had then were not very good - the samples are from a soundcard  with a 4mb wavetable and the guitar was recorded with an old dinamic microphone - I guess you'll find it enjoyable

6-10-2004: Aquaplaning has won the national demo contest of Cadena 100! The CD we sent included the songs Who and Capitalist Love. We offered a really nice celebration concert yesterday night at the Chesterfield Café. Check the pictures and impressions at www.aquaplaning.tk

14-9-2004: I've been hired by the school Ntra. Sra. del Recuerdo to impart music classes to the 14-15 year old students. It's gonna be only 12 hours a week, so I'll keep on ringtoning as usual. The school has an excellent boy choir (they performed Mahler's 3rd with Zubin Metah at the National Auditorium yesterday O.O) and a school orchestra is on the works.

5-9-2004: Epic Games has disclosed the mods which will be included in the Editors' Choice edition of its acclaimed game Unreal Tournament 2004, and I'm glad to say that 2 mods I composed music for are gonna be in it: Domain 2049 and Jailbreak

15-7-2004: www.aunalia.es, the e-zine I write for, has been awarded by the Club Internacional de la Prensa in the Digital Journalism category. The ceremony was held yesterday night at the Westin Palace Hotel, and of course I was there. Couldn't miss the free drinks ;)

29-6-2004: I've recorded a version of the famous Bach's Air in D. It has a quite fast tempo, the guitar was recorded live and the rest rendered with Garritan Personal Orchestra. By the way, today is my birthday! I'll be celebrating it next weekend at Amsterdam with some good old friends from the Tactical Ops team :D

7-6-2004: Domain 2.0 for Unreal Tournament 2004 has been released! Lots of new material, including brand new models and maps. Download it here. That's not the only mod I've worked for that has been released recently: Jailbreak 2003/2004 has also been launched, featuring the main theme I composed for it, and has already had some bugs fixed in its Service Pack 1. It supports vehicles and it sure packs a lot of fun!

4-5-2004: I have composed a rock track for a small custom racing game for Eurotaller. After some changes and tweaks the game will be uploaded to the Outplane Multimedia web. You can listen to the fuzzy guitars here, and this is how the game looks

21-4-2004: Domain made it into the finals of the Make Something Unreal Contest 2nd phase! Elemental Conflict, which also features some music of mine, had an Honourable Mention. Also 2 maps from Domain are finalists in the Levels section. More info at Domain's website.
We're porting Domain to Unreal Tournament 2004 engine at the moment, here you got a screenshot of the upcoming version

20-4-2004: Yesterday I picked up my CAP (Pedagogical Adaptation Course) diploma, music specialty. So I'm a better teacher now, I have a paper which says so! :P
Also you may want to visit the aquaplaning web site, which has been updated with pictures of last week 1st Anniversary Party, new songs and new concert dates

20-3-2004: Just finished a piece that has taken quite a lot of time. It's the credits theme for the upcoming project Crossfire. Features a classic epic intro followed by a remix of Crossfire Main Theme. Hope you find it interesting

16-3-2004: Here's the main theme of robs, in a Thomas Newman style which evolves to an arabic ambience as it follows the intro of the game. The web of the multimedia development group after the game, Outplane Multimedia, is up, even though it's still work in progress

13-3-2004: Home sweet home! From now on www.pablodelgado.com will be my homepage, even though www.pablodelgado.tk will work for some time too. Change my mail address too: I'll use my brand new one pablo@pablodelgado.com :D

16-2-2004: I've been hired to make the music for the spanish project Robs, a game in the MGS style. So you'll be getting brand new music for this game very soon ;)

18-1-2004: The year has only just started and already aquaplaning has done several gigs! We played in Madrid pubs like Silikona, Low and Lamala. Yesterday was our latest performance which gave me the opportunity to play my brand new Fender Stratocaster Plus, which sounded great! There are pictures available of several performances in the "Fotos" section of the band's website.

12-1-2004: Elemental Conflict version 2.0 has been released, featuring the main theme I composed and lots of new stuff. Grab it here!

22-12-2003: A new section of music has been set up at Domain website, holding mp3's of all the themes I've composed for the game (7 so far). Don't forget to check it out! :)

15-12-2003: I have uploaded a 45 seconds action piece I made for a contest to be featured in Tribes Vengeance promo videos. If you listen to them, you'll see they were searching for techno stuff, so my orchestral music was discarded :( Now you can listen to it here, if you find it nice at least the effort will have been worth it

15-11-2003: Just finished the theme for Elemental Conflict, a new ut2k3 mod created by Tynan "Dr Crowbar" Sylvester. I abused again the free synthesizer Synth 1, now in its version 1.06, and used some choral aaahs to get that epic feeling I like so much ;)
Go ahead and download it Elemental Conflict Theme

18-11-2003: Composed the main theme for a new project, still unveiled, codenamed Crossfire. As you will be able to notice in the cue, it's another gun and team action set up. Soon you'll know more about it ;). Hope you like the Crossfire Main Theme

10-11-2003: I've been contracted to ringtone for 8 hours a day (instead of 4 as before) and I've begun to make the CAP practices teaching music to 15 and 18 years old teenagers at Cumbre High School. Domain has already released its version Alpha 1.6 and my brother has set up a new aquaplaning web and a forum. As you can see, lots of things going on!

17-10-2003: Domain Alpha 1.5 is about to be released! Features lots of enhancements, including 6 themes composed by me :) Keep an eye in the website

7-10-2003: I made my inscription for the CAP (Pedagogical Adaptation Course) this morning at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. If I pass it I'll be able to teach in High Schools (poor little kids if I do hehe)

3-10-2003: It's been officially announced that the company I work for has been bought by Telefónica Móviles, and has changed its name to Telefónica Móviles Interacciona. Don't panic, I'll be doing the same stuff, but under a different company name

21-9-2003: The FAMA festival, after being advertised in 20 Minutos newspaper and even in the national radio station RNE3! has been a complete success, mainly because of the great time all of we had :) It's been a very nice experience that all bands are willing to repeat. If you couldn't make it yesterday, maybe you'll be able to attend to the next FAMA edition ;)

13-9-2003: The finalists in the Phase I of the Original Level Categorie of the Make Something Unreal have been announced in the Unreal Technology Web and I'm quite happy to say that 3 of the 10 finalist levels feature my music (DM-Nirvana2, DOM-Aphrodite and DMN-LazyWaters) and one of the 3 Honorable Mentions too (DMN-ErrigalDawnAlpha).
Congratz and best luck to all mappers!

12-9-2003: I finished my guitar studies!!! :D
I passed the last examination yesterday morning and I was celebrating it with my classmates, who passed the examination too, until 5am (all of them were girls wohoo)

2-9-2003: We've changed the name of our little pop band from nrz to aquaplaning (don't ask me why, i'm not responsible of this ;)) Anyway, we have our next concert september 20th in Móstoles, Madrid, so if you're around it will be nice to see you there! Here's the poster

11-8-2003: The Jailbreak boys contacted me to do a little theme for their upcoming version of the mod for the ut2k3 engine. I've composed the music that will be sounding after selecting the Jailbreak game mode, where my dear friend Emilio "Mars Attack" Molina has performed some trumpet bits :)
Jailbreak 2003 Theme

16-7-2003: Dr Crowbar's DOM-Venus, renamed DOM-Aphrodite for its release, is now featured in Clyffy B's Ownage, congratulations!
Also some impressions about Domain are already popping around:
"Doesn't beat FaceOff in some of the technical aspects but as far as the overall experience goes it's very atmospheric. Looks like you're doing a single player campaign? That ought to be very cool. The music is perfect. The maps are great. Gorgeous, complex, and well thought out. Objectives are painful, the suspense is brutal." - ACC, Atari Forums

13-7-2003: One of the projects I'm working on, Domain, has already released it's first version!
Visit the web page and download it if you've got ut2k3 around :)
http://www.domain2049.com/

24-6-2003: After meeting some old friends in a quite unexpected way last saturday, I composed a piece of music in a very depressed and lonely mood. It's called The Vector, due to some screenshots of a colleague's project with the same name, which were also full of big empty and lonely spaces.

20-6-2003: I'm glad to say that some of my themes are gonna be rehearsed in the upcoming S2e, kind of spanish E3, which is going to be celebrated in Madrid from June 26th to June 29th.
There will be a stand where music from several spanish composers for games will be played all the time with a screen where the artist and title of the theme playing will be shown. More info here (only available in spanish at the moment)
If you are going to go maybe we could meet there! ;)

5-6-2003: It seems I'm going to do some music for the ut2k3 cyberpunk mod Domain, currently in its alpha stages. I just uploaded the music for the menu and credits screen. In both of them the synthesizer sounds I use are from Synth1. Very nice, and it's free! :D
One little screenshot of the menu so you have an idea of the style of the mod

31-5-2003: I got nostalgic and remade UT intro music. I used an orchestral setup, and only changed some percussion parts. Hear it here 

9-5-2003: Just passed the guitar concert exam! :D I performed Giuliani's First Concert for guitar and orchestra, with Adela González Campa playing the piano part. I slipped some notes in the last movement, but nothing serious. It sounded really well! 
Ony one exam left to finish the guitar career (woohoo!)

9-4-2003: I've been quite busy testing my new Behringer B1 microphone. I've uploaded a recording of Francisco Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra I did yesterday to use as background music for a slide presentation of my last trip to Granada. Hope you enjoy my performance :)

27-3-2003: Tynan "Dr Crowbar" Sylvester got in touch with me last week to ask me for music for his next UT2k3 map DOM-Venus. He sent me the IR24 of the map and I must say I liked it very much. Here is the music I've done, searching a greeklatin feeling but at the same time keeping it fast-paced

16-3-2003: Just finished the music for a nice animation of Kamehan Studios logo, made by Laurent "Shag" Delayen. Take a look at it here.

10-3-2003: Wow! 104 visitants from 14 different countries have visited the web in only one day! Thx everyone for your attention :D

9-3-2003: The page is up! :)

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