Amiga Music Preservation -

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

Ever had the urge to turn everything you own (or don't own for that
matter ;-) upside down in order to find out how it all works, just for
the fun of it. Well this took me some time with my VIC-20.

I believe I was 10 when I got my first computer (1984). I can't remember
the name of the black box. It had one cartridge with games on it. I have
never understood why this was a cartridge since there was only one on the
market.

With the introduction of the Philips Videopac-2000 I had my first
computer with a keyboard. Then started the all well known Commodore epic.

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

- that black box I told you about
- ATARI 2600 *
- Philips Videopac 2000
- CBM-16
- VIC-20
- CBM-64 *
- CBM-128
- Amiga 500
- Amiga 2000 *
- Compaq 486SX/33 *
- A lot of PC clone systems here.... *
- Intellect P150-PRO *
- SGI Indy R4600 *

The machines with an asterix are still alive. The rest is lost in time.
Some sacrifices had to be made to spare the lives of the others.

Since I am now running an Internet Service Provider company the intentions
for which the computers are mainly used have changed. This also explains
the existing of the Silicon workhorses.

The only machines I have now up and running are my Silicon Graphics
production servers (4 Upgraded Indy Workstations), a couple of Intel
Pentium servers for running Linux and that other shit from Redmond.

Finally some of my former trusty 486 workhorses are doing the work of
being a firewall, dhcp server and that kind of low performance stuff.

And probably most important. I have an fast Intel machine running Linux for
engaging audits and other security related matters.

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

Well, I am still doing it all. Why would you choose?

Only for the graphics part of projects I now hire people to do it.

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

Protracker, Amiga
Fasttracker, Intel PC
Quebase, ATARI/Macintosh
Protools/DigiDesign, Macintosh

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

Will you ever? I hope not....

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

The tunes that I have lost over the time.

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

It helpes to recreate/set the ambience. It helpes/disturbs the
concentration.

And it slows the loading time ;-)

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

Only for (semi-)professional purposes in professional studios. But still
very actively.

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

Well the different formats you propose are just good for the distribution
of it all. Nothing spectaculair to that.

About the content (the muzak itself) I have to say this:

Since past years a lot of more music is being produced and distributed by
a lot of different mostly unknown and new musicians to the market.
This makes the assumption that there is much more garbage out there than
before justifiable. Also this state inherently that there should be much
more quality or innovative soundtracks out there then before. Only the
gross suplly makes it much more difficult to spot those.

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

There are just to much. I still like those good old 4MAT tunes. Also
some of the Maniacs of Noise and Rob Hubbard tunes are timeless. And these
are just some of the old composers of 'computer' music.

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

Nope. We're planning to launch a audio-database on the Internet this year
from which people will be able to download and listen all our productions
from the studios in MPEG-Layer-3.

The format is simple as ever. It's free for private non-commercial use
(since we can't stop the copying anyway, and don't have any expectations
that somebody will or should for that matter). Still note that this will
be a different licensing structure opposed to say Public Domain! All
other profitable (mainly commercial) users should license the music with our
label.

So if you have a CD-R you can toast your own! Or afcourse for the lazy,
it will be for sale in the shops....

Maybe some of the old 'protracker-all-time-favorites' like 'the
beaver' or 'the insects' will be re-engineered into new
studio-production but this is still not for sure, since we are not the
kind of people to look back.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

I still have to put in a new CD ('Forbidden Paradise 8 - Mystic Swamp'), so
currently nothing....

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

Not much sleep and for sure a couple of hangovers......

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

I am active in a lot of different scene's, but now more on a
professional level. Were I did everything in the past just for fun and
free, we now consult the big guys and build stuff they can't for
intentionally accumulating some extra gross profit.

The scene now consists of TV-production companies, music studios and
record labels and other multimedia oriented companies.

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

If the people out there indeed are awaiting a re-release of some of the
old productions in studio quality, I would appreciate to hear about
that, and specifically which tracks.

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