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

It was 1989 when i was 9 years, my mother bought herself a 12MHz 286 IBM-PC,
and i was instantly in love.

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

My first own machine was a 286, too, until iD released DOOM which didn't run
on a 286, so i tried to get a 386 as fast as possible. Until i got that machine
i kept programming with GW-BASIC. I had an Amiga 500 too for some time, that
died because of overheating. When i had the 386, i also got interested in
network play and i played with my brother a lot of doomII using a serial cable.
I also played around with Cubase/MIDI on my mom's Atari. Then, apogee/3d
realms released Duke Nukem 3D, and i needed a 486 badly - which i got. At this
time i had already experience in GW-BASIC, QBASIC, QuickBasic, and i was
making music - with a little Tracking Shareware Program named CREATOR which
was so crippled that you could only do 3 patterns with it. I got a 486-DX4-133
later which i bought myself (the first time, whoo!), and i was already into
messing around with hardware. At this time i had bought very cool stuff like
a networking card, and i was using scream tracker 3 which i found on a
demomaking-cd i stole in a supermarket (hey, i was young and needed the
binaries!). Guess when i got myself a Pentium (whoah!) - that was when iD
released Quake. I changed to Impulse Tracker 3 later, and bought myself a 3Dfx
Voodoo accellerator. Internet came. I learned C/C++, Tcl/Tk, pascal, ASM. Then
a K6-2 266MHz (Unreal, voodoo 2 and a TNT2 later), and then a big hole - . -
finally i'm sitting here with a P3-500MHz, no games on my harddisk, but Buzz
Tracker, VC++ & MSDN and DSL.

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

I am also making graphics and I code, but that are not the skills I show to most
people, though my friends know that I do a lot with PC's. I've always spent the
most attention on making music, because i was creating something that was alive.
Music is one of the most powerful forces to humans in this universe and it's
impression remains unexplainable. A rhythm is feeling, and much older than
humanity. It's almost religious, mystic to me. I'm strongly addicted to all
kinds of music, and a big fan of mathematics, and my current coding project is
also about music.

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

see question 2.

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

Haha. That question implies that I ever had a goal when making music, and
that's partially true. When I was 16-18, my goal was to make people consider
my music as good, and i was almost fighting for attention. Now that I'm 21 and
went through a lot of hard changes, I keep my attention on the process while
i'm making music, I take the process very serious, and my goal is to recreate
feelings and moods that I admire.

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

I don't remember :) I often listen to my own music as some kind of exploring
myself and enjoying my creations (hey, god did that too, didn't he?), some
tracks I like more, some I like less - and sometimes I listen to tracks again
that I already didn't like when I finished them. I think, once you get
distance to your past and your old self, you find distance to your tracks,
and you start to like them again.

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

Music controls pretty much anything. Since there are more good musicians than
demo creators who can put feelings and logic into a piece of rhythmic aureal
information transmission, you see that a demo without music tends to be very
boring and lifeless. Demo coders often do not have the skills to create
athmosphere and stories, though some GAME programmers work together with
designers and storytellers to add more quality to their games - where music
works a lot together with the ongoing of the story. (example: all LucasArts
adventures.)

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

Both, though I'm mainly coding at the time.

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

MP3 is the work of geniuses, WAV is an intermediate format, MIDI shall die at
last and rot in hell - ah well, no, MIDI is a cool idea, but the implementation
sucks. Then again, I wouldn't make music without MIDI.

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

Yes, the music that influenced me the most was the first and second album of
The Prodigy and a lot of music without names, mainly Breakbeats, Jungle,
Drum&Bass, Goa/Psytrance, some Techno, Tribal, Electro, Pop music.

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

No. The internet remains the best releasing platform.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

None. I listen to goa streams all day while coding since I've got myself a major
music overdose through Audiogalaxy. I downloaded 10-20 tunes of different
styles and went all through them almost every day, so "individual" music has
lost it's value in favor as to "world" music - music that was made by
individuals but has the sound of the universe in it. That's why i wouldn't tell
individual names. Ah well i could do some advertising at least. I like the music
of ronny pries/farb-rausch, wayfinder/azure/fr and jco/concept a lot. hehe.

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

Nothing!! I have nothing in common with these freaks who sit at their computers
all day coding and making music! :P Ah well, it's old-fashioned or something i
think, most of them do not seem to have enough money for a PC.

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

Yes, i attend some demoparties like mekka/symposium every year, this year I
was one of the organizers at ms2k+2, I made a tune for apocalypse inc's
psychedelic demo RTR ( http://www.ainc.de ) and released a tune which got #14.

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

A tip for novice musicians? Computers are a great thing. So is life. Being
good is not a matter of skills, it's a matter of being. Feel 100%, See 100%,
Think 100%, Love 100%. If people like you, they will like your music. And with
the universe it's like pretty much anything: love it or leave it, unless you're
waiting for something. And uhm... be interested in humanity. Expand your reality.
Hm. Wurst.

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