Then, on the CSDb forum, I noticed a request for SID musicians willing to take part to the 20th birthday of Samar Productions (2013) I felt ready to compose something different from my usual game tunes, so I made “ Acoustic Freedom” and sent it to Ramos. In 2012 I started making another game, called “ Sheer Earth Attack”, another compo winner, for which I made a complete soundtrack and a loading picture. The game won the first prize, which consisted in some enhancements such as a High Score Table, a new title screen, and so on: this gave me the chance to compose a proper soundtrack for the game (and to draw a loading picture as well! It was my first one ever!). My second SID tune was the “ SEA Soft Loader”, which should have been the loading music for my next (SEUCK) games in fact, I was already designing a game, “ Il Mago”, which I later submitted to the Standard SEUCK Compo 2010. That game also featured my first ever SID music (apart from that old adventure game’s soundtrack which fortunately was never released!), made with GoatTracker maybe, if it weren’t for that game, I would never have started composing for the Commodore 64! It was made for the “ Sideways SEUCK Compo” held in 2010 by The New Dimension. – Apart from some adventure games written in BASIC, with my brother, which we never released, and some early SEUCK games which were recovered and put online by the SEUCK vault (and also on my website), I may say that my very first release in the C64 scene was a SEUCK game called “ The Rocket Man”. Starting from zero, could you present us the timeline of your C64 gaming / music experience? – Although new to the C64 scene, you certainly managed to put your mark on with numerous fine releases.
From then on, I composed my songs on the guitar mainly. At that time, my parents gave me and my brother a music keyboard on which we composed some very simple songs later, when we were 17, we bought a guitar. – No, I haven’t I’m a self taught composer, and I’m still learning! I only studied music at the intermediate school (from age 11 to 13), where I learnt to play the recorder. – Do you have any academic background as a composer? I’m a business consultant, I’m married and I’ve got one daughter. – Hello, I’m Gaetano Chiummo, I was born in Trani (Italy) where I live, and I’m 40. First of all, allow me to say that it’s a honor to have you here! Let’s start with all the usual stuff…Name, country of origin, age, studies, present status, all these tiny bits and pieces you’d like to share with us…
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