Amiga Music Preservation -

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

Good question.
I think my interrested start when my father bought me a ZX81.
It was really hard to load games or programs in it, but the proud was higher !
Then i meet the Amiga and it posibility of creation. It was dream.
A friend show me "Nebulus" and "Soundtracker"

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

ZX-81 - Games&basic programs
Amiga 500 - Music and games
Amiga 1200 - Music, 3D, games

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

I try to understand 68000 instruction without success :-(
I just reach to do a circle with deluxe paint ;-)
and i'm in love with music, so...no choice !

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

Hem...well i try many (Sidmon, Soudmon, Jamcracker, Octamed...) but still continue to love Protraker 4.3b
THX is so cool, easy too !

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

No one.
My goal was reach when i played keyboard in a band.
Anyway my favorite song is "icarus dream suite"

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

A lot. And not a one. Every tune i composed is a part of me. Sometimes you're just laughing at what you did a
year ago but it is just that you grown up.

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

The same as design and good code !
An awesome is just a music than perfectly goes with the demo. That stick to the ambience.
But for me, a music as not to be agressiv all the time, just because the demo/game is agressiv.
I was really bored by all those demo with hard core techno music...yeerk...

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

Just playing for my pleasure on my own or with my friend Monty.

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

If you mean for the type "MP3", "WAV", "MIDI"...
Well, midi is a good format to do some tune that a lot of friends can hear without taking a lot a place.
But it is really to restricted.
MP3 is da good one ! You can share and spread high quality music you've just done with all your synths.

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

Too hard...and too many
Klisje pas Cliche from Walkman, for exe

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

Not really remastered music, but that's an old wish to redo some good music with real instrument.
Which musician didn't dream of that !
Anyway i just realized some demo tape with my ex-band group. Maybe i'll put them in MP3 on a web site
when i take litle time.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Too many in too many style.
To give you some names, i'm god damn fan of Dream Theater, Cynic, Gordian Knot, Steve Ray Vaughan, Rachmaninov

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

A lot of fun, what else ?
Some old good friends (i lived 3 years in the same house with my friend Monty.
A friend i really meat through Amiga)
And always competition to do better and better.

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

Nop. I'm too old ;-)

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