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Music has always been part of my life. I like to sing. I like to play piano. And I like to compose my own songs.<\/p>\nMusic has always been part of my life. I like to sing. I like to play piano. And I like to compose my own songs.<\/p>\n
I started learning\u00a0to play piano when I was very young (7 years old), and I continued to study music theory for many years. Being an early videogame programmer, in the 80’s, I was heavily influenced by computer and electronic music, when\u00a0I started to compose the soundtracks of my own games. Meanwhile, my style began to be “contaminated” by rock\/pop bands of the times and by old ragtime artists (Scott Joplin<\/a>, that I discovered by chance).<\/p>\n During those years I mastered the use of\u00a0Trackers<\/a>, music authoring\u00a0applications that were especially popular on the Amiga range of computers. They were the “natural” tools for me, as they were designed more from a computer programmer point of view than from a musician one; a music tracker\u00a0doesn’t use traditional notation, instead it features a sort of “musical programming language” that gives the composer far more freedom and flexibility.\u00a0Even today, I write my music with\u00a0Renoise<\/a>, a wonderful piece of software heavily inspired by those tools (I then use Reaper<\/a> for voice recording and the final mixdown).<\/p>\n