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

I think that was in 1986 when my dad bought my first computer...
an Amiga 500 - the good old one! For the first years I only played
games like Giannasisters and so, but in 1990 I found that it makes me
happier to produce music with the computer. In the early days with
Protracker and SoundTracker, later with DigiBooster Pro and Fasttracker
on my PeeCee ;)

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

I own the following computers:
Amiga 500 (1.5MB, PC-Card)
Amiga 1200 (2MB/16MB, 340MB HD, 040CPU/050FPU, 16xCD-Drive)
P1-60 (lame thing, but works as server between Amigas and PCs)
P2-350MMX (64MB, 4.2GB HD, 3D-Card, add. 3Dfx-Card, TV-Card, ISDN)

My old A500 is dead now I think.
The A1200 one is still in use for music productions. Currently
'Land Of Genesis' Soundtrack for Darkage Software.
The P60 works as server between my PCs an Amigas - with a changeable
HD-device.
The P2-350MMX is for music production and music post-production and for
my work as a future Multimedia Producer.

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

Hehe, nearly everyone in our family is engaged somewhere in the
musicbussines. But I like music most since I can think!!! My favourites
are D&B (like Prodigy, Shamen), Pop (like Sting, Depeche Mode) and
Amient (like System7).

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

Currently I'm using DigiBooster Pro on my Amiga1200 and Fasttracker2 or
ModplugTracker on my PC.

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

'All My Senses' or 'Avenging Angel'... I don't know exactly!?

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

'From Outer Space' because of it's too much bassloops and many more ;)

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

Next to the SoundFX I think it's more than 50 percent, because you hear
something while you're playing. No normal computeruser thinks of the
amount of coding done by a coder of a computergame/demo. Everyone is
watching the graphics and listening to the music/sound!

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

Yes, I'm still composing!
For both, professional and leisure. I'm the musician of a small
gamecompany located here in austria (Futureware 2001, specialised on PC
and Linux) and Freelance for an italian gamecompany named Darkage Software.
I'm also writing some songs only for me... to inspirate myself ;)

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

I think MIDI is not very good, I won't use it. MP3 is the future...
you can send it via internet to people located on the other side of earth!
I'm using the well known format 'XM', but I always make harddisk-recordings
of my XMs and save the songs as MP3!

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

'Avenging Angels'
'All My Senses'
'Fade Into Reality'
'War Machine'
'Skull Power'
'Project Space'

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

I already have made some Audio-CDs, but only for me and some of my friends
on CD-Rs! I'll be very happy, if someone is interested in my material
to ban it on silver-CDs ;))

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Savage Garden
Jamiroquai
Sting
Bloodhound Gang
...and many others!

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

Since I never owned an C64 I can't say anything about it.
Amiga scene, yes... I have some contacts with several members of
demogroups like TRSI, Action, DENS Design, Cryptoburners *g* or so,
but nothing else.

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

Not in the scene, but active for computergames I think!

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

Greetings fly out to:
Andrew Barnabas (ex-DENS Designer)
Chris Huelsbeck (for beeing my hero all the time)
Martin Iveson (for some good infos on samples)
Michiel van den Bos (for sample support - thanx mate!)
Bjorn Lynne (for checking some of my songs)
BuZz and Zeg (for beeing good friends on IRC)

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