Curt Cool / Depth                          
                                                                             
               Danish musician/editor/trader/organizer on Amiga          
                   English interview on irc by Dire in 1999              
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Dire:   Howdy  Frank,  welcome  to  a  fast irc what you think is what to type
interview.                                                                   
                                                                             
Curt Cool: Hi Nico!                                                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Dire:  Where do you get your ideas for composing?                            
                                                                             
Curt  Cool:  Anywhere really - what's most irritating is when I can't remember
them  when  I come home to my computer - if I have to do some project, I often
play  a  bit  on  my  keyboard  to  find  some  good  harmonies...   Helps the
inspiration, so to speak...                                                  
                                                                             
                                                                             
Dire:   So  you  are  using  a professional machine, are you playing in a real
band?                                                                        
                                                                             
Curt  Cool:   Nah...   I'm really quite terrible at playing the keyboard...  I
would  like  to  sing  in  a  band  actually, but I've been far too busy to do
anything about it...                                                         
                                                                             
Professional machine???  Old crap Roland E-15 more like...  Still, I intend to
do some midi stuff in the future...                                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Dire:   You are mainly doing chip music - how is that techique to compose such
mods?  Where is the difference to mods with digitized instruments?           
                                                                             
                                                                             
Curt Cool:  Well, I haven't been doing all that many chiptunes lately - still,
chiptunes  is  a  quite  special  style  in the way that there's not that many
opportunities  to  make  fancy effects, so the only things that counts are the
melody and the harmonies...  A catchy melody is alpha & omega...             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Dire:  How much time do you spend on a song in general?                      
                                                                             
Curt Cool:  Depends on what kind of a song it is - anything from 15 minutes to
several  days  -  but I believe that the optimal way of working is to make the
whole  tune in one day, in a continuous flow of work - that way I'm not losing
the overview of the tune...                                                  
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Dire:   Which  system do you prefer - PT?  Digibooster?  What are the pros and
cons?                                                                        
                                                                             
Curt Cool:  I'm very much used to Protracker - but on the other hand it's only
4ch  -  and  I still compose mainly in PT2.3d.  Still, I would like to do some
work in DigiBooster, but though DB is a very impressive program in many ways -
the  amount of tracks etc.  - the amount of hotkeys for the actual tracking is
not  as big as in PT - I sincerely believe that instead of copying FastTracker
(on  the  pc),  the author should try to implement some more of the ProTracker
hotkeys - after all, most Amiga composers started their career in PT...      
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Dire:  Any greetings or last words?                                          
                                                                             
Curt  Cool:   weeeellll...   Dunno...   I ought to get a homepage of my own up
sometime  -  that  way people could dl my mods...  Anyway, greets to all Amiga
sceners  and  everyone  who  enjoys modules and computer music and...  Beer...
weed...   partying...   Amiga...   etc.   etc...   Can't really figure out any
silly things to write right now...                                           
                                                                             
contact me if you'd like on curtcool@image.dk                    
                                                                             
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