Kyd/Balle
    Productions
     Interview
 

    Done by Head/Alcatraz via mail

          Short explanation:
Jesper   Kyd   and  Mikael  Balle  are
members  of  Silents.   They  made the
famous  `Hardwired`  and `CAT` demo in
co-op  with  Crionics.   They are also
the  producers  of  the  video `Global
Trash   II`.    So  let`s  start  this
interview...

MD: Hi  Kyd/Balle!   I think everybody
    know  you,  so  we  can skip a big
    introducing  part.  And here we go
    with  the  first question for you.
    It  seems  that  you do everything
    for  a  demo or video together, so
    the  name  Kyd/Balle.   Could  you
    explain   this   to   our  reader,
    please?

KB: We  do everything together because
    we  are  very alike, regarding the
    music,  gfx and  videoproductions.
    We have the same kind of taste and
    we know what we like and dislike.


MD: How is your personal relationship?
    Are  you  close friends, or do you
    just    work   on   the   computer
    together?

KB: Yes, we are close friends.
    Actually,  we  live  together with
    The  Spy,  Deftronic and Murphy of
    ex-Crionics in a big appartment in
    Copgenhagen.


MD: How  do  you  spend your free-time
    besides working on computers?  Are
    you party-animales?

KB: We  like  Hardcore  Tecno-raves!!!
    And  there  are  a lot of these in
    Copenhagen,  so I guess we like to
    party (party-animales?).
    But   we   use  computers  a  lot,
    because   they   are  involved  in
    alomst  everything  we  do, wether
    it's video productions or music.


MD: Again to your demos.  Do you think
    that  a  cool design and timing is
    very   important   for   a   demo?
    Compare your productions with e.g.
    Cube-O-Matic.

KB: The design is very important!!!
    If  a  demo has good music, people
    sometimes load it just to hear the
    music, and that's very positive.
    It's also important that the music
    fits the gfx and code.  Because we
    live  together,  we are influenced
    by each other and therefore it all
    fits together.  (Hardwired)
    We  don't  like  "coder" demoes at
    all.   There  has  to be something
    else   in   a  demo  besides  good
    coding.
 	

MD: Do  you  plan  to  make  more  for
    commercialin in the future, or are
    you   going  to  produce  any  new
    demos?

KB: There will be new productions from
    us,  just  wait and see, you'll be
    surprised.


MD: `Hardwired`  and  the  `CAT`  demo
    were    mainly    coded   by   The
    Spy/Crionics.   It  seems that you
    three   are   a  very  good  team.
    Please  tell  our  reader  how you
    create a demo and how long it took
    to    produce    a    demo    like
    `Hardwired`.

KB: First of all, Hardwired took about
    2 month to create.  In this period
    we   mainly  lived  at  the  Spy's
    place.  We believe that one of the
    most   important   factores   when
    making  a  good  demo, is that you
    have  close contact to each other,
    and   after   the   success   with
    Hardwired,   we  decided  to  move
    together with the 3 main coders of
    ex-Crionics.


MD: Did  you  ever have problems while
    producting  `Hardwired`  or `CAT`?
    Was   it  a  hard  thing  to  time
    everything in these demos?

KB: Hardwired:   Yes we had some minor
    problems  at The Party in Denmark.
    There  is  also a couple of errors
    we  didn`t  have  time  to correct
    (the  loading  sound is cuted much
    to early and so on).
    In   the   Cat-Demo  we  had  some
    problems with the memory capacity,
    it  had  to  run on a normal 512kb
    Amiga.


MD: From  where  do you get your ideas
    and   inspirations   for   a  cool
    demo-design?

KB: We  get  our  inspiration from our
    daily  lives.   I  mean, we get it
    from  everywhere.  Movies help  us 
    create certain moodes though.
    We  also  get a lot of inspiration
    from  the Amiga scene, even though
    we  don't  like  the scene at all,
    Everybody  is  doing the same kind
    of  pop demoes,  and we find  that
    very boring.
    We   therefore   mutate   all  the
    popular   demo  styles,  and  make
    something different.  But we don't
    only   make  demoes  in  order  to
    provoke  the  demo  scene, we also
    make  them, because we want to get
    rid  of  all our ideas, which grow
    in our twisted minds.


MD: What`s   your  opinion  about  the
    Budbrain  and  Melon Dezign style?
    Compare them with your design.

KB: Hm,  we thought the Budbrain style
    was  funny  the  first time we saw
    it,  but  we  are getting tired of
    looking at these kind of demoes.
    We   find   the   coding  just  as
    important as the music and grafix,
    and    when    our    co-op   with
    ex-Crionics  turned  out  to  be a
    successfull  combination, we think
    we  have a very strong force here:
    Gfx, Music and Hardcore-Code mixed
    together.


MD: Is  it  true  that MTV bought your
    `Global Trash II` video to show it
    on MTV.  If so, was it a success?

KB: No,  MTV has not bought our video,
    but  we are in contact whith them,
    and  we  hope  they  (one  way  or
    another)  will  broadcast it soon.
    Anyway,  they  have showed some of
    it  in a losy quality (a black and
    white copy from spain).


MD: Do  you  think it was correct that
    Odyssey won the first prize on The
    Party?    Can   you   imagine  why
    Odyssey  won  and  not  your demo,
    even  if  the  code is much better
    than Odyssey?

KB: We  have  no  problems  with this,
    since Hardwired is no.1 at all the
    charts, we belive it is the puplic
    opinion that it should have won at
    The Party.

  
MD: Did  you get offers from different
    companies  to  work  for them?  If
    so,   please  give  us  some  more
    informations.

KB: We  are  talking  with an American
    software company.
    No further comments!!!!


MD: Recently more and more guys joined
    Silents   (Germany,  France  etc).
    Are  you  pleased by this fact, or
    do you prefer a smaller group?

KB: No!
    We  think  of  Silents  Dk, as one
    small group.
    We  designed  the first Silents Dk
    demo   way  back.   We  made  that
    together with Mr Perfect or Defect
    or whatever he called himself???
    The devisions help each other.  If
    we  are  working  on  a  demo, the
    other  devisions  release  new TSL
    demos,  and  when we release ours,
    another  devision could be working
    on  a new production.  This way we
    can release a lot of cool demoes.


MD: What   is   your   opinion   about
    cracking    and    other   illegal
    activities?    Is   it  true  that
    Silents will start to crack or/and
    train?

KB: I don't know about the cracking in
    other  devisions,  but TSL Dk will
    not   start  cracking  that's  for
    sure.
    Denmark   has  been  "cleaned  up"
    recently,  and therefore we do not
    want  to  take part in any illegal
    activities.


MD: Please list your favourite...

    Coders:
    Murphy, Deftronic,The Spy.
    
    Musicans: 
    Chris   Huelsbeck,   Rob  Hubbard,
    Martin Galway.

    Graphicans:
    Sionic

    Designers:
    ?

    Diskmags:
    Zine

    Groups:
    ?

    Demos:
    Red Sector Cebit Demo


MD: I`ll    now    give    you    some
    expressions,  please  give me your
    short statement.

    The Party
    COOL!!!

    Cracks
    Cracking  is  only  destroying the
    demo-sceen.  The police thought we
    were  doing  illegal activities on
    the  Amiga,  because we were (are)
    part of the Amiga scene.

    Odyssey
    Great slideshow!!!

    Zine
    The  best mag. around 

    Hardwired
    We  can't  think of a better demo,
    until we have made our next one?

    Mantronix/TIP
    Good musicians, but thier style is
    not our cup of tea (tecno rules).

    Uno
    Nice gfx, but again: Tim White  

    Kyd/Balle
    We   don't  wanna  write  anything
    about ourselves.

    Phenomena
    Cool group.	  


MD: Please   give   us   your  contact
    address,   if  companies  etc  are
    interested in contacting you.

KB:      Kyd / Balle Productions
             Skovlyvaenget 17
              2970 Horsholm
                 Denmark


MD: Thanks  for  answering  all  these
    questions,  now  you`ve  got  some
    free  bytes to write some messages
    or whatever you want.

KB: News News News News:
    --------------------

    Static of Rebels joined Silents DK

    Crionics     is    dead,    future
    productions   will   be   released
    through Silents DK.

    Bye Bye!