Amiga Music Preservation -

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

Oh - the first ever interest towards computers I had when I saw a Vic 20 while
visiting my friend. :) It seemd so cool !! Immediately I started thinking that
I should have one too, since you can command those things to do what ever you
want !!! Anyway, the year was 85 or so - can't remember that far back :)

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

I had Commodore 64 with wich I mainly played and did some odd basic
programming :) Then after a big argue with my family (*sorry guys*) I managed
to get my hands over Amiga 500, and I was totally sold. It had great music
and graphics capabilities - I bought some extra memory, accelerators, and
even a hard drive to that one. I created mainly graphics and music with it...
I dropped out programming since there were lot's of those cool guys who could
do what ever they wanted with the code :) I decided that time that the
gfx/music was what I want to do !!

Later on I bought A600 which I think I still have in the back of my closet :)
and then there are these PC, which I have total of 4 now:)

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

Hmmm. I think that I mainly answered this question before reading the this
one ;) Anyway, I think that music comes out naturally and what comes naturally
is what you're ought to do !!

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

I always sticked onto ProTracker, but I used Octalyzer for a few times, but
ProTracker was the tool that I most enjoyed! Later on when I moved into pc's I
started using ScreamTracker since it's just like ProTracker, execpt that it had
lot's of channels. Now I'm jusing just goldwave and Multiquence and of course
some midi softwares :)

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

oh... that would be hard to say... You know, everytime you've created a new
piece you got that strange feeling that THIS IS THE ONE - but then again -
after all these years - it's really hard to say which is the best! Hmmm..
*browsing thru old mods* Ok, I got it! DREAM THE NIGHT part II is the one !!!
It's the one we've been trying to play in real life and it's quite cool song as
well :)

*whatta heck the whole DREAM THE NIGHT saga - total of 6 songs are my favs*

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

... lemme think - all the songs has full of memories, but the GARDEN OF STONE
is the one that I don't want to remeber. I had some difficult times back then,
and I really don't want to remeber those times, but otherwise it's a great
song :)

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

Music plays very powerful role in demos, games and movies. You know, when you
look e.g. a horror movie without a sound it's not so scary when you look at it
with sound on :)!

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

Yeah - we have this thing called TOXICTWINS, which is a open music project and
we have musicians from various local bands working with this project. That's
just fun! Never had that talent to go pro :)

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

hmm.. wave, mpeg, are great since they capture the music in real bandwith and
the filesizes are relatively small *what is small compared to those st3's :)*
In general - all the music is great - I really don't care about the format :)!

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

Oh what those that pops right up into my conciousness are :

Klisjepaaklisje - ?? *damn - i never remember this guy's name - sorry :( *
Molecule's revenge - by jester
Guitar Slinger - by Jogeri Liljedahl
Chicago Song - ??

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

I've done few of those, but never planned that ...

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Dream Thater, Evergray, Transatlantic Project, Children Of Bodom, Shadow
Gallery, Warmen, Neal Morse and those evergreens like Iron Maiden, Van Halen,
King Diamond, ... and many others as well...

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

First of all - Great time with great people ;) but a comprehensive skills to
work in a team !!!

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

No - which is too bad I think... :(

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

Ah well, this list would be so big that it would take browser too long to load
so I just want to hail all of those people whom I've met during these years -
you guys are great!!! Thank you for your support and encouragement!!!

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