Tim Wright Interview

Das Interview ist jetzt nicht unbedingt etwas, was viele interessiert, aber es enthält eine kleine Passage, die es schafft, den Romantiker in mir zu wecken:

In the VGM fan arrangement community, MTV Music Generator and Dance eJay don't have the best reputation, as often users create fan mixes with them based very heavily on presets, without a lot of interpretation or manipulation. Clearly these tools can be both used and abused - what's been your experience in listening to user-created pieces?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! ;O)

For MUSIC on PS1, we ran a competition with Codemasters and PlayStation Magazine, where people would send in their tracks on memory card, CD or tape and we would judge them. The top 3 would win a really good prize. What really surprised me was that people did send in memory cards, knowing full well that the magazine wasn’t in a position to organise returning them. We were also blown away by how many entries we received. Literally hundreds...

So, what were the compositions like? I’ll be honest... none of them were awful, because the packages have a safety net of having the BPM and musical key all matched up for you. So the worst we got was "bland." Yes, there were a few totally crazy tracks, some even made us laugh so hard we cried. But... there were loads of really great tracks too. Funnily, the guy that won first place didn’t even know he’d entered! His girlfriend had recorded his music onto a beaten-up old cassette tape and sent it in with a scrap of paper with his name and address on. Even with the awful tape quality, the track really stood out.

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