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1-How did your interest for computers start? Which year was that?

It was in the mid-80's. I didn't buy a C64 until around 87-88, though, mainly
because my parents were not so fond of me buying one, they wanted me to be
social and have friends instead. We mostly used it for games. Then I bought an
amiga around 89-90, I think.

2-What machines did you previously have? What did you do with them?

No other than mentioned above.

3-For what specific reason did you end up making music rather than gfx, coding?

I tried all, but ended up coding mostly. But I also made some music, and that
often came in handy, because when releasing a demo deadlines are so short and
everything goes so fast. So I often used one of my own modules instead of
stressing some musician.

4-Which composing programs have you been using? Which one in particular?

All the standard trackers (soundtracker, fasttracker, protracker, I think)

5-With which module did you feel you had reached your goal?

It feels a little weird to answer that question in company with so many other
great musicans on this site, but I did get some positive feedback on the
Booty time module used in intro of the Scoopex plays 2Unlimited musicdisk.

6-Is there a tune you would like not to remember? For what reason?

Oh, too many!!

7-In your opinion, what's the value of a music in a demo, game?

In a demo: A LOT. I mean, what is Red Sector's Cebit-demo or Phenomena's
Enigma without the music?

In games, I think it's not that important, I often used listen to my
other CD's while playing games.

8-At present, are you still composing? For professional or leisure purposes?

I still compose a lot, I find it very relaxing. Nothing professional, only for
fun. Instead, I'm trying to pursue a career as a software developer.

9-What do you think of today's pieces of music such as mpeg,wave,midi,etc...?

Speaking of the technologies you mentioned, I think they're all great, being
optimized for their specific use. Speaking of the quality of the music today,
I don't know.

10-Could you tell us some of your all times favourite tunes?

I must admit few comes close to Dizzy/CNCD on amiga, I think almost all his
songs were great. Then, Nuke/Anarchy was great, too, for instance Velomatrix.
The best demo music ever is Cream of the earth by Romeo Knight, I think. The
best game music, I would say is Chris Huelsbeck's Turrican or Tim Follin's
Sly spy. Tip/Firefox made some great songs, too, can't remember the names now!
On C64, I have to mention Rob Hubbard. I think most of his tunes are great,
very advanced and clever, they would probably sound great on any instruments.

11-Are you planning to make an audio cd with some of your music remastered?

I'd do that anytime, but I haven't got any requests for that yet.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

I'm listening mostly to jazz music now, jazz standards, big band jazz, smooth
jazz. Examples: Keith Jarrett, Stan Getz, Al Jarreau, etc.

13-What does/did the amiga/c64 scene give you?

Lots of good memories and good friends. No money, though. It was a bit like being a rock
star, really. We often had a lot of positive responses when we released
something. Some guys even sent us stuff even though we did not have the time
to respond.

14-Are you still active in the scene these days?

Not really, we released an oldskool-demo at the Gathering 2004, though.
It's called Cyberspace.

15-Anyone to greet? Anything left to say? -- 3959394\charrsid7880095 Feel free...

Greetings goes out to the following: My wife Anne, Decker of Andromeda, Echo of
Cinefex, the guys who know me in the following groups: Scoopex, Triumph,
Spaceballs, Cryptoburners, Eon and to some friends like Bjorn Thirud, Stig Olsen,
Gunnar Ronning, Per Chr. -QUARK-, etc. If some you who knew me from the scene
reads this, please drop me a line on the email above, would be cool to hear
from you again.

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