Amiga Music Preservation -

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

I got an Amstrad CPC464 for christmas, around '84 or '85 I suppose.

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

Just the Amstrad before the Amiga. They hung around in a box attracting dust
for many years before I had a ruthless moment and got rid of them.

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

Well I came to music after coding and gfx actually. I started off coding in
BASIC on the Amstrad, then LASER BASIC, then AMOS on the Amiga. I started
doing graphics on the Amstrad too, and then later on DPaint on the Amiga.
And finally I started creating music shortly after getting the Amiga. It was
a nice surprise to discover Soundtracker and realise that anyone could make
music.

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

To start with I briefly used some 8 channel tracker I can't remember the name
of, but that didn't last long. Then I discovered Soundtracker which felt much
better. Then onto Noisetracker, and finally Protracker.

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

I didn't get anywhere near reaching any sort of goal - there were a couple of
tunes I wrote near the end my time in the scene ("Cyberville" and "Wonderland
Parade") which I felt showed some promise, but then I stopped being active in the
scene and as far as I'm aware they were never included in any production.

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

"Chameleon" has an awful section with some dischordant piano. It was only the
second tune I ever wrote and I never intended it to accompany a demo but it went
out on some Digital production and I was mortified !

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

Well it's half the fun isn't it?I'm a professional games artist and it's always
great when the sound gets added at the end of the project, everything suddenly
feels alive.

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

I haven't written a thing since I left the Amiga scene. I've been meaning to
start writing again ever since I stopped but life got in the way. I *will*
soon start writing some music for some small games I'm currently making on my
own.

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

Well I like that WAVs are much higher quality than the old 8 bit amiga samples.
I just wish I could wave a magic wand and transform all my old amiga samples
into high quality WAVs so I could use them these days.

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

Nebulous by Audiomonster
Memorydust by Codex
Just Spank It by Firefox/Tip
Disaster is Obvious by Firefox/Tip
Enigma by Firefox/Tip
Scrambled Mind by Heatbeat

...anything by Bruno, Uncle Tom or Walkman

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

Time is so precious that I'd rather write some new stuff to be honest.

12-What bands are you currently listening to?

Daft Punk, High Llamas, Stereolab, Divine Comedy, Mosquitos.

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

It's a good incentive to finish things when people are waiting for them...
Also the healthy competitive spirit was great, everyone was trying to do better
than the other guy and it was exciting to see things advancing so quickly.
I'm still really good friends with Spook too.

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

No.

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

Well hello to Spook and all the old Digital fellas (Acid, Yaz, No.5) and Lynx
I guess ! Haha, it sounds funny saying those names again... :)

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