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

on Christmas 1983 my father bought me a Commodore64, and that's where all
started.

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

1983-1992 Commodore64: mainly playing videogames
1992-1994 CommodoreAmiga: tracking, videogames
1994-... PC: tracking, programming, writing

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

I'm a disaster as a graphician. Passion for music just appeared suddenly at
about the age of 16, then I asked a videogame reseller for a music program
for beginners, and he gave me Startrekker (1993)

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

1993-1994: Startrekker1.3
1994-1996: FastTracker1
1996-2002: FastTracker2
2002-... : ReNoise

I've abused of quite every feature in FastTracker2. ReNoise is new so has
still much to be discovered.

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

Thought (1994)
Need to Suffer (1997)
Warm Jazz Soup, Total Control 2 (1998)
La Terra e il Tempo (2002)

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

probably that 2-3 modules I've made when I was helping a friend of mine who
was a beginning DJ, during 1994. I hate doing remixes and mainstream music.

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

the music in a demo could turn a weak serie of imagines in something which
makes you will remember. It's aim should be to mark up what you already
should feel with images.

I hate making music for games so I won't reply to the second question.

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

yes I'm still making music for my exclusive pleasure, though sharing my
works with everyone interested through my site.

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

I'm releasing my modules as OGG files since I'm making them with ReNoise for
which there isn't an eternal player yet.

Any other media is of no interest to me.

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

"10 Light Years from Earth" by NeuRoTiX
"Dreaming Metal" by prof
"Maximalism" by MickRip
"Anticipate the SunRise" by Trente-Trois

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

I'm already doing it since 1996. Each year, I record songs on CDs and give
them for free to friends and fans.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

mainly italian progressive rock bands (Area, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, ..),
Death, people from Tokyo Dawn Records.

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

when those scenes were really alive, I didn't know anything about them. I'm
happy to see that they are still living, though.

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

Yes, definitely.
I've just come back from BreakPoint demoparty (held in Germany) 2 hours ago.

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

Music shouldn't be a product to sell for mass-feeding.
My music is necessary to me to express some feelings I wouldn't express in
other ways. Who wants to listen to it, it's free to do it, the others would
listen something else.

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