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Andrew Gregory Sega , also known as Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games. He is currently part of the group Iris and a live member of Stromkern, and has his own recording label known as Diffusion Records. Sega's main solo project is known as The Alpha Conspiracy. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Maggio 1975
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“Ideally, a song should contain both elements of high melodic tension, and low melodic tension. No listener wants to sit through a totally high-energy 180 BPM non-stop 6-minute ride through synth mania unless they are already busy grooving madly on some dance floor in a smoky club somewhere. Also, unless your listener is on heavy sedation, he or she will not enjoy your sparse 18-minute ambient tune which consists of the same languid piano riff repeated over and over again.”

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"Melodic Structure", Necros, TraxWeekly #15, 1995

“A lot of [my] songs have various strange oddities in them - usually this is the result of late-night dementia.”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“I'm starting to realize that touring really involves a lot of waiting around doing nothing.”

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De/Vision + Iris Germany tour diary 2004 http://www.irismusic.com/devision_tour/page1.htm

“There's a big difference between playing shows for fun, and playing shows because you're in desperate need of the money.”

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Electrogarden interview with Iris http://www.electrogarden.com/features/iris/

“To impact someone emotionally, [a musical piece] has to contain "interesting" melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic content, and what defines "interesting" is up to the listener.”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“As with any collaboration, you have to find someone that's in your 'mode' of making music.”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“It's hard to quantify a 'top ten' list of songs for many reasons. I like many styles of music, and it's difficult to compare radically divergent types of music with each other.”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“The usual problem with progressive rock is that the band can get so wrapped up in their own fantasy land that their music becomes completely inaccessible. "Wanky", if you will.”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“I think there are some objective [musical] qualities… how complex something is, how melodic, how diverse the tonality is, et cetera. But I could also make a piece of music that contains all of those and yet isn't "good" from a subjective viewpoint. For example, take Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", Beatles "Yesterday", and Underworld's "Born Slippy", and play them all on top of each other at the same time. Great music in their own right, but terrible sounding together.”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“We started out in the middle ages creating music which had certain desirable physical properties (for example, a major chord sounds "nice" because the frequencies are in integer ratios to each other). And then as society evolved, we created these emotional contexts for certain instruments and progressions. Major-chord arpeggios sound "happy", minor chords sound "sad", chromatic scales can sound "scary", et cetera. In the 20th century, film soundtracks reinforced this point as people associated certain kinds of music with certain visual and emotional experiences. It's a giant feedback loop, really; once you grow up in a given culture, it leaves this musical fingerprint on you which colors your experiences.”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“I think [Britney Spears] is a perfect example of an artificial construct -- someone with a decent voice and a very marketable image, that producers and business people turned into a pop star. Unfortunately, I think it took a toll on her, mentally, and I feel bad for the trouble that success has brought onto her. However, her music is pretty disposable, and she doesn't have the intelligence and cultural impact of someone like, say, Madonna.”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“Every musician, I guess, wants to alter the world to his or her taste in some fashion… That's part of why I write music.”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“Stylistic evolution comes from listening to what other people have done and making a Darwinistic modification.”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“One of the issues these days is the sheer amount of music out there to be listened to. There are more bands than one could ever hope to explore.”

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Connexion Bizarre interview, 2007 http://www.connexionbizarre.net/interviews/diffusion-records-an-interview-with-andrew-sega/

“Unfortunately Sting's jazz work isn't nearly as inventive as his rock songs.”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“Once you have a basic grasp of the theories underlying music, you can pretty much pick up any instrument you want.”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“A human is a complicated organic/electrical system, which is immersed in a culture. Try raising a monkey like a human, it won't work, you need the human's certain brain characteristics (including self-reflection) in order to create a truly intelligent creature. The brain processes inputs and perception in very particular ways, and I think until we understand the underlying processes better, there is no way to really simulate it in software. Computers will continue to be good at simplistic analysis, and raw processing power, but the subtlety of emotions is something intrinsic to the human organism and culture.”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“I think much of the conflict in the world is directly the result of people's varying interpretations of reality, or perhaps you could term it the "distortions" in their lenses. The best one can do is to try to consume as much knowledge as possible, both from your experiences, and from the words of others, in order to try to form a complete picture of the world.”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“A lot of my tracked music was written when I was very young, relatively speaking. I was very optimistic, I had finally discovered some sort of public musical outlet, it was generally a very happy time. So, the music of that time sort of reflects that, I think? By the time I started the Alpha Conspiracy project, I was older, a bit more sophisticated (and, well, cynical), and so the music got more complex.”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“I think as a musician you really have to have a wide variety of tastes, or else you will unconsciously get into a rut.”

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Connexion Bizarre interview with Iris, 2009 http://www.connexionbizarre.net/interviews/iris-an-interview-with-andrew-sega-and-reaganjones

“Well anyone can make a 'weird' [chord] progression by randomly picking triads.”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“Religion is a simplistic answer that society has created in order to make people feel better, but there is little evidence as to its validity. There are thousands of religions in the world, each with their own "correct" answers, and each contradicting each other. For now the most sensible explanation to me is that we are the result of a lucky combination of cosmic factors, we're the "mold" that has grown on this particular planet and in a universe as vast as ours, it's expected that somewhere this would happen.”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“Silicon approaches certain fundamental limits; organic bliss is the soul catcher.”

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Isotoxin author comment, 1995 http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=46539#texts

“Usually musicians have egos and personality quirks which makes it difficult to form collaborative efforts (for long periods of time, anyways).”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“If anything I probably gravitate to things with great melodies/harmonies, and interesting/syncopated beats.”

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Connexion Bizarre interview with Iris, 2009

“If someone only ever listens to, say, Nickelback, their opinion [about music taste] is valid but largely meaningless since they don't bring any depth to the discussion :)”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“I have a love for cheesy music. I don't want to list any bands and embarrass myself; D”

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Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

“I try to avoid categorizing music as much as I can, though. Everyone steals so much from everyone else these days, the lines between genres are very washed-out.”

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Static Line interview, 1998

“I find a lot of club music extremely boring.”

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Gothtronic interview with Iris http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&interviews=899

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