Amiga Music Preservation -

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

Wooh, I was close to 7 y. old (1988), and I discovered computers with an
Amstrad 6128. I was making musics in 3 voices with a basic script filled
with 'Sound' commands. Everything hand-maded, I didn't knew anything about
trackers. I didn't even knew that it was existing...

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

Amstrad 6128: game, music, basic, gfx
Amiga 1200 : music, coding, gfx, demomaking

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

I always made music, the question was to know how this machine could help me
in my way. Trackers made the music accessible for everyone. When you're an
instrumentist, you can compose, of course, but if you want to hear what you
wrote, you can't make it by your self. You can't dispose of any instruments
you want, you don't have means to do such a thing, which becomes so simple
with a tracker. It allowed to play every instruments you wanted to, even
synthetic ones

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

I really started with my A1200 and Protracker 3.15, and evolutions to 3.61.
I stored every samples i liked for using them later, and i started like this.
Later I get DSS and it was an wonderful way of capacities of making
instruments by my own.

I first composed for my own, and 2 years after, i discovered the scene...

Some years later, I take interest in Midi instrumentation and i used Octamed
soundstudio

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

Hard question

I'd say 'De Killer', at the SlachParty in 1998, cause it was a period i
stopped the scene for two years, and it was the party i experimented a new
style of composing, considerating the module not like a tune, but like a song.
We took there a lot of first prizes.

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

none. I like sometimes hearing the scrappy 8khz sound of the old tunes

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

Music fixes the design. It mixes all elements of the demo in a cohesion
allowing the demo to have a soul. Look 'Smoke bomb', 'gbg', or every design
demos with no sound, it has no atmosphere, no identity it's fucking boring,
man.

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

Still. I compose a lot for theatre and short-length movies, which represents
a large panel of possibilities that the demo world offered: you can swith
from jazz to techno, classic to disco, there's no theme imposed. If music
pastes to the 'image', it's good, whatever the style is.

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

I think that's a good thing to integrate mp3s to demos. Trackers don't allow
such liberty of composing that you can find in real instruments playing or in
midi sequencers. The demo must evolve like it ever did with graphics and
coding: It don't have to be limited by number of colors, Mo or lame
processors. Let's use every ressources you need

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

Jazz - Antigotchi
(used in Scoopex's "My Kingdom")

Musics from CNCD's "Closer" and "Deep Remix"

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

I don't think so, i'm not jogeir. I could use samples from my tunes,
drumloops or maybe themes, but I don't want to change music which correlates
to an old time.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Kruder and Dorfmeister, Amon Tobin, but "classics" too, like FatboySlim,
Radiohead, or Lisa Gerrard...

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

A wonderful amount of possibilities, a great learning. You meet people whose
passion is same like yours, with sharing spirit and willing to teach and
learn, without taking care of who's facing him.

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

I'm still active, but rarely in the modcompos. Since I passed in midi
composing, I prefer mp3 compos, less limited. Sometimes I compose a mod for
an intro or something, but I rather work in the Wild-3D compos now.

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

greets to PURe, M4nkind, X-Metal Force Crew (DK), Sekhmet, Utopia Banished.

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