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JadeWeb : What is your first musical memory ?
I can’t remember, but I was always interested in sounds, much more then images.

Which artist or song has "affected" your childhood ?
No one really.

Did you think of working in music ? What did you really want to become later?
I wanted to become a historian, which I did actually. but my father was always playing music by Antonin Dvorak and Anton Bruckner, and meanwhile reading the scores which he had of those works (the complete Dvorak collection, plus every bit that was ever released on vinyl) and i was fascinated by scores. To me it was secret knowledge that i want to know about.

Are there any disturbing or nice sounds that have "affected" your childhood ?
Not really .

Did your parents give you a musical education ?
They both played the piano a bit, so they wanted me to play it to. I hated it. I wanted to learn the guitar, but was just too lazy to learn to play it. I just made funny sounds on it, by beating on the strings with objects.

Can you tell us about a musical memory of your childhood (a concert, a show..) ?
I think we went to the Violinconcerto by Max Bruch one day, and i remember it being nice. I don’t know how old I was. My first concert I visited it myself was in 1977. It was the band U.K. (who remembers them).


Your childhood "Top 5"

Jonathan Richman Egyptian Reggea

Jeff Wayne War Of The World

Paul McCartney & Wings (anything really)

the others have faded from my memory (my memory of what happened is not what happened)


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