Amiga Music Preservation -

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

I think it was the early 80s when the C-64 arrived. before that I spent my time with
consolegaming but the C-64 had my full attention as soon as it appeared on the market.

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

I started with a C-64 for gaming and a bit lazy coding in basic and later on in assembler but
the computermusic got me bounded when I saw the soundmonitor from Hülsbeck the first time.
Later on I got the A500, A1200, A4000T (sold) for my MOD-experiences which started in 1986/87.
In the late 90s I couldn't go around a pc cause the SBLive Soundcard was so good I started to
go from Amiga Octamed SoundStudio to PC Soundfonts.

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

Hmm, good question. I rather like making music than coding stuff or making gfx. and the biggest
point will be that i'm worse in coding and computerGFX, or should I better say i'm not so worse
in music like in other things. My ears can influence my eyes and my mind but not vise versa.;)

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

On the Amiga I tried out several Soundtrackers, Sidmon, TFMX, MusicLine, Oktalyzer, Startrekker,
Noisetracker and most of all I used Protracker and in the late 90s it was OctaMED Sound Studio.
On the C64 I started with some kind of Music Maker, but shortly after that the Soundmonitor was
released which I typed in byte by byte from a german Paper-Mag. Later on there were Rock &
Beatmonitor and at the end of the C64-time in 1989 the FutureComposer.

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

With my abilities I won't be able to reach my goal ever but the following are my personal Amiga
favs. "Promises at Sea", "Nineteen-Ninety", "In The Orbit", "Das Leben einer Waldmaus", "God at
Work", "Sternenstaub" and "Midnight Summer" which has not been finished :(

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

Hmm. hard to say. Once I made soundtracks for an amateur-war-video and the mods are so worse.
But in general I dont know any mod I cant explain :)

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

Music in Games is most important. Without any sound it is like watching some fotos of a game
instead of playing it and the music itself must have a recognizable theme within so anyone can
tell which game had which music.

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

Indeed I never stopped composing and I learned much in the past 20 Years. No professional music
from my site, only for fun and mostly to defrustrate my mind. But no Mods or Midi, only my Synth
and my Guitars. you can find my music on several Portals. Sharing Mood Music means much to me
when someone writes a comment. by the way I wrote an intro and outro for "Decision to Hate" that
should be semipro :)

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

It is the simplest way to spread music as mpeg. MIDI is a hard thing to make. I only know 2 or 3
people who really know how to compose a MIDI-File that sounds great wherever you play it.
Personally I prefer mpeg because you store all the sound you hear in it and are not bound in any
way or size.

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

Hard to say some names here. The Guitarslinger from Jogeir Liljedahl sure is the best I heard as
a 4-channel-Mod.

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

I already made 4 CD's. The first one "Shared Dreams" has 9 MODs and 4 OctaMED-Songs on it. The
Second "Split Mind" has 6 MODS, 5 OctaMEDS and 2 PC-Songs on it. The third "Backslide" only has
1 MOD and 10 PC-Songs. but the 4th "Lieder aus dem Brotkasten" has 22 of my C64-Songs which I
had to record from tape so they are secured on CD. A few of my MODS have been converted in
pieces to my PC with other sounds but none of this tunes has reached the final status.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Van Halen, Decision to Hate, Devin Townsend, Destruction, Aardvarks, Brainstorm, ACDC, KHT
(Karl Heinz Thiel), but mostly to my own stuff as you can see in my last.fm profile but that
only counts for MP3. All the gigs I go to are Metal-Gigs (Death/Thrash).

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

The C64-Scene gave me new friends and the ability of logical thinking through programming. The
Amiga-Scene gave me tons of demos that I watched over and over again. At the end I was hired
as a IT-professional and many things from the Amiga helped me out on problems with Linux :)

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

No, not in the normal scene but in the music-scene online and offline.

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

Yes greetings like in demos some days ago must go to the formerly Groupmember from TGT
Destinator/Panic (RIP), Jugger/Panic, Lynxx/Panic All Bottles Ahead :) , Link of Charge,
Art-Explorer, Mr. Hyde, Shark oh that is all I remember for now. Well I hope someone really has
the ambishion to listen to ALL of my mods :) that would make him as weird as I am.

Don't forget to check out my New Songs on http://balloonhead.de
thanx and Carpe Noctem

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