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

When I was 11 my brother bought a C64 + Datasette (we lived in East Berlin).

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

Two weeks after the wall in Berlin came down (fall 1989) I had a C64 of my own. One year later (september 1990) I bought my Amiga 500.

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

I was always into music, cause I have a musical background in my family. My musical education started at the age of 4, when I was 6 I changed to a special musical scool an learned piano and composing for 8 years.

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

With the C64 I sadly never made music. On the Amiga I used Protracker, but only V1 and later V2. V3 was crap and 8-Track Versions of Trackers were forbidden to use by our coders.

For "real" music I used Bars & Pipes Professional for years. Now I use Logic on a Macbook Pro.

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

Hard to say, but I think "Native Expirience" from the RMD-Demo "Trip to Mars" was the best one. And - to be honest - who can beat "backward pattern just for fun" and the "find the hidden song" competition inside? ;-)

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

Maybe the early ones are not so great, but nevertheless also part of my career.

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

In my opinion music has the same possibilities to transport feelings than the visual part. so it is a up to 50% important part of any presentation. but in reality it is very hard to integrate the music in a way that is possible to work perfect. sadly just in demos the music is that important; in games is is much to often sloppy and improper. but in movies it's the same problem...

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

Just for leisure purposes...
I used to produce professional music for a few years during my studies. I also worked some years for for BMG Germany (a major label) as a product manager, but I changed over to the Telco industry because in the music industry are unfortunately no good jobs available anymore. It's very hard to live as a musician or as an artist in general - believe me.

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

I thing nowadays the people hardly understand the idea of the competition in the reduced possibilities of the tracker music. to produce a cool track with four channels an just a few kb reduces the track to the essence. And you have to think in quite special ways :-)

Real music such as MP3 and WAV in games are something else and in my opinion not comparable. Either you make music with a reduced number of tracks and/or with little memory use. Or you have to compare your results with professional produced music.

And MIDI files are just a minimal standard and only capable to transport the rough structure of a track.

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

Hard to say, maybe:

c64:
chris huelsbeck - giana sister title
rob hubbart - bionic command
martin galway - comic bakery

amiga:
firefox - musiclinjen
virgill - rolfs knightmare
chris huelsbeck - turrican II title

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

I think not - all the songs are available in the web and the original sound is still the best :-)

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

I like many styles - check out the band project HOTEL I co-produced lately at: www.nasarock.com

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

It was an exciting time when I was both much younger and had much more timt than today. but i meet some very good friends and laid the foundation to my professional life today.
We where young, we were single, we were avant-garde.

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

No, but sometimes I still meet some old friends from those days.

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

Pitty / Dytec
(lass mal treffen...)

M.C. MP / RMD
(um es mit den Worten von frher zu sagen: komm doch mal vorbei ... ;-)))))

ACEN / RMD
(wat machste so...?)

PASO / Dytec
(hab immer noch den JD-800... ;-)

Radox
(unbekannterweise ... ;-)

And of course the non-audio crew: phil4, ramses, noa, fatman, magnum and (like I always said) all I have forgotten.

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