Amiga Music Preservation -

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

I played a texas instrument TI-99 home computer at my uncle's in 1983,
later he gave it to me and my brother (J.S.L of Impact DK) and we started
to program basic..

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

Some years we had a C64 mainly for playing games and BASIC. Then we bought
the (at that time) fabulous A500 and later A1200 mainly using trackers and
some MIDI with Bars'n pipes. I remember how struck I was at the great stereo
sound on the amiga after being used to the SID.

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

A friend of mine introduced me to tracking and as I had been playing the
piano for some years it felt natural to start experimenting with computer
music, and I got very attached to it after only a short while. I think I was
12 or 13 years old at that time.

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

Noisetracker and protracker were my alltime favorites when it came to making
modules. Bars'n pipes was a great program too for MIDI purposes. After I got
PC I have been a fanatic Cubase user and also Finale has had its fair share.

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

I remember getting a top 10 position in the music competition at The Party
'93 (I think it was) with "morning in sarajevo".. That was a nice song and
I was very proud of the result. :)
Technically I think I peaked with "nonconstructed", but I really never had a
fixed goal other than doing some cool/nice music that went well with our
demos in Impact DK and eventually would make people happy!

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

If there was, I have forgot...

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

To my mind music can mean at least 50% of the overall impression. It is just
like with films. Good music can underline and support any material and bring
it to life. But of course it is allways up to the musician to make the right
choises and try "to be on the same team" as the material he/she is trying to
accompagny.

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

I'm studying composition at the St. Petersburg conservatory in Russia for 4
years now, so I guess you can say I have choosen to become a professional.
At present I therefore work mainly with classical, but there is also time
for jazz, easy listening, pop, film music etc. and I wouldn't want to do
anything else. :)

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

Music is music no matter the file extension.. In my opinion there is no bad
music, only indifferent music. Today so many people have easy acces to
producing and distributing their own music. I think thats a very positive
trend. Though, to be honest, I'm not too keen on the fact that techno (and
the dum-dum-dum-dum) has become so widespread in our musical culture. I hope
it's a passing phenomenon and that more people will start eyeing the rich
world of classics and jazz..

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

"Space debris" blew me away when it came, and as I hear it today it is still
a true classic of Amiga music.

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

The thought actually never crossed my mind.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

I'm all into the russian composer Prokofiev and I adore Brahms, Mahler and
Stravinsky. Miles Davis, Michel Petruciani and Oscar Peterson are my
favorites in jazz. Of pop I prefer Bjork and Sting.

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

A lot of experience and tons of good times, especially with the guys from
Impact.

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

I haven't done anything since I did the fish animation "The newcomer" with
Znorc in '98. And that was already at the PC scene.

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

I think we had something special in the c64/amiga scene that will probably
not come back again now. Of course nostalgia has seen better days as we say
in Danish. But what was great back then was the limitations of the
hard/software that made this healthy competition between the groups. You
could always see if something was cool, so to say, and then you would try to
do it better. We pressed the limited bytes and 4-channels to the extreme and
were proud of the things we could do with our machines, allthough far from
everyone around us could see why this new vector routine etc. was anything.
The scene was of course a bunch of happy nerds and its funny to see how many
of the guys from back then now are making big money in the web and IT
industry.
I'd like to greet everyone who was in Impact DK and also a big Hi to
Melomaniac and Laxity. Also thanks to you Crown for making the site and
keeping some of the scene alive.

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