Amiga Music Preservation -

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

It started in the year 1984. My parents bought me a <>
with datasette and full 16kb memory. At this time I was 9 years old. Of
course we played much games in the beginning, but after I found out what
a listing is I created my first ASCII-pictures.

Two years later I had an Apple II. As the OS was on every disk and I liked
to experiment I Germanized the OS just to understand the system. Later I
learned AppleBASIC by myself. Then I noticed that the Apple II was not
wide spread and all my friends had a C64, so I also wanted to have one.
Of course I coded for a while in BASIC, later I used assembler. As it was
very easy to train a game I loved the job to find some Pokes. :) Now and
then I typed out some programs and some time there was a musicprogram and
I don't had to rip sounds no longer but could be creative by myself.

Later the Amiga came into my life. Amiga is still there and I will remain
true to it!

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

see answer of question one

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

hmm...there is no special reason, but I think it maybe suits me. I do graphics
and code in about 45 percent of my free time.

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

Soundtracker, MED, OctaMED, Protracker, AHX, DigiBOOSTER
Audiomaster, TechnosoundTurboII, 303emu2, SamplitudeOPUS

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

As I like to criticize myself and find nearly everything bad, I think I had
never reached my goal. But to be honest I think MERMAIDS was quite succeeded.

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

LOVEMACHINE -> no comment, its puke (and already deleted :)

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

I think the evaluation of music is up to 50 percent. Think about flying
through a meteoritshower in a science fiction adventure and you have to get
out of the way of the meteorites while aliens are shooting at you...and you
listen to a pianotune. bah, the whole atmosphere is gone for a burton. And
thats the same thing with demos. Now and then a quiet passage and slamming
sound with the right effect.

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

To compose in a professional way I have to invest a bit more. At the moment
I've got a KORGM3R and a YAMAHACS1X, so you see I need more equipment for
this. But it's a hobby for me, of course.

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

MP3: I don't like it because of the possibility of downloading tunes in a
very easy way, so the producer and the people behind earning nothing. But
I think to be a musician is still an occupation and the people have to live!
WAV: fucking pc-format :)
MIDI: is needed to create professional music.

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

hmm...there are quite a lot.
Here is an extract:

Melomaniac - TwistedCinema
Counterpoint - Theme from Counterpoint
FBY - ???
Jogeir Li. - ???
Chris Huelsbeck - ???
DAX Ravebusters - EXTREMIA
Thunder - ???
Elwood - Experience
Elwood - Onefineday
Falcon - ugly duckling
Falcon - my spring
Wayfinder - ???

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

Temporary not. ;(

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Mainly those who create sensibly trance:

Rank1
Kai Tracid
Aquagen
Mauro Picotto
etc.

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

The scene gives me big friendships and of course a lot of fun. I think this
is the same opinion as every scener has.. :)

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

Yes, I'm still active. Sometimes I thought about quitting the scene but
always I recover myself to carry on. Anyway Scicco motivates me very much.

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

Greetings:
Loaderror/Ephidrena
Booster/Loonies
Azure
Loonies
Nature
Haujobb
Potion
RNO
Wayfinder
Darkage
Lubber/Padua - Great idea DC64
Secretly! (of coz ;)

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