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

It started in 1984, when I first got my Commodore 64 for my Birthday. I got my
Amiga 500 around 1990.

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

* Commodore 64 : programming (demos, etc), music composing, playing games and
some illegal stuff ;-)

* Amiga 500 : Music composing and playing games mostly. I coded on Assembler
68000 for a while but stopped after a while.

* PC (still own 2 currently) : mainly music composing, web site making and
playing games. I code in my professional job
(Web, Java, php, etc).

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

Well the choice for me in the beginning was rather between making gfx and
music composing. I started in 1985 to do a martial art game : coding was ok,
making music was average, making gfx's results proved to be ugly. So I prefered
to skip the graphic part ;-)

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

On Amiga : former versions of Soundtracker and Protracker (until version 2 if
I'm not wrong).

On PC : ScreamTracker versions, until I got a Workstation Synth : since then I
stopped using trackers and started to use Cubase VST.

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

"Tears of Revenge". Sounds were ok for that time, but most of all I managed to
do a slow starting music, with a good rhythm in the middle and a "sad" ending,
like if it was telling a story. It's one of the tunes I was the most happy with
the result.

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

My really first ones : instruments were ugly, and my composition skills were
really really bad...

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

It's part of it. A demo or a game cannot exist without music, since music
brings even more feeling to the images or the actions going on the screen.
Imagine today watching a movie without sound or music...

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

Yes, mostly for leisure, but trying to do it professionnally too. I'm preparing
my first demo CD (check my web site for more info), and I'm already composing
musics for documentaries from time to time.

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

MIDI : technology which could be greatly improved, but still it's really great.
I always use it, it helps me manage the sequencer on my computer, the
external synths and my Digital Workstation (AW4416). Really helpful.

MP3 : great technology, very useful to spread music in a low-sized format.

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

Hard question, I've loved many tunes.
On Amiga : most Jogeir Liljedahl musics. There are many others whose musics
were really great, but cannot remember them right now. Sorry for those ones...

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

Not currently, but who knows maybe one day if I have the opportunity... Why not.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Mostly instrumental musics, like Vangelis, JM Jarre, Enya, Deep Forest, Darude,
etc...

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

Many things : learn about the computer world, to make music, to code, to work
together with other guys on a project like a demo or a game, etc. Thanks to the
scene and computers I've got a job I love and still manage to compose music for
my pleasure.

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

No.

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

Greetings to all my former friends in the scene, especially on the C64 (I
wasn't very active on the Amiga). Also, a BIG Thanks to all those great
musicians on both the C64 and Amiga platforms that managed to do great musics
despite low technical means, which I took hours and hours to listen to.
And to you for reading my interview ;-)

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