Amiga Music Preservation -

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

My father bought a VIC20 in early 1984 but i had hung out at radio stores
for a year or so before, making BASIC programs on the demo computers or
sometimes copying programs letter by letter from magazines which was how it
worked before they started attaching DVDs on the covers.

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

The VIC20 was followed by a Commodore 128 and then the Amiga 500 in 1987.
I still have them all but I don't use them since emulation works so well on
my PC.

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

Simply because that is where my talents are. I would have loved to be a coder
but I never got past creating the very original flying over a checkered floor
routine in assembler. I have always had to have some form of musical outlet,
after quitting the scene around 92 i played bass in a few bands but
astonishingly enough I guess I wasn't destined to make a living from it.

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

Soundtracker and Noisetracker of course, cant remember which versions. I used
audiomaster for making the instruments.

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

I think Flucks.mod was my favorite, it wasn't quite as formulaic as much of
my other work.

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

Obviously the creative process involves spamming the disks with more or less
failed expermiments but thankfully I don't think any of those have been used
in a demo or intro.

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

I think many times the music is what you remember best today when you try to
recall an old demo favorite and that is somewhat true for games too. I think
that is just how the brain works. Then again I obviously had a special
technical as well as creative interest in the work of my fellow musicians.

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

Nope.

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

Midi is pretty obsolete I guess, as is mods and other similar media except for
nostalgic reasons. There is no reason to keep the file size down like there
used to be and the music propably benifits from this; which way you choose to
compress it doesn't really matter.

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

I have sat motionless by the keyboard for about five minutes now trying to
remember the name of this particular song, or the demo it was in, but I guess
it's not going to happen. Anyway I am thinking of a tune by Red Sector, pretty
early stuff I would guess -89 or so. Awesome whistling sound for the melody,
seriously splendid song.

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

No.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Electric Light Orchestra, The Soundtrack of our Lives, Iggy & the Stooges,
Led Zeppelin, Faith no More, Funkadelic

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

Good friends, countless sleepless nights, a few nice parties, loads of money,
something to do with my spare time, access to all the games I wanted (edit:
I just checked my bank balance and it seems I was wrong about the money,
sorry about that)

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

No, not at all.

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

I have really enjoyed answering your questions, it brings a nostalgic tear to
my eye to reminice about the late eighties/very early nineties. Fuck, surely
it hasn't really been fifteen years already, has it? It really is unbelievable
how time flies. I will go browse your site now, thanks a lot for all your work!

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