> Mental Floss (USA) on the keys: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Floss / Hornet The Facts Real Name: George Nowik Current affiliations: Kosmic Free Music Foundation, Epinicion Birthday: April 8th, 1976 Height: 5 feet 11 inches Weight: 165 pounds Location: Bellevue, WA (just east of Seattle) Schooling: ITT technical college, Electronics Engineering Working with computers since: Womb First Computer: Atari 2600, followed by Commodore 64 Latest Computer: 486 dx2/66 What I've worked on: My productions to date have been: That song in the morph section of the Kosmic demo "Flight" ( kosmic.wit.com) Music Contest 3 20 MeEnUhTz Chip-Compo Co-Organizer Hornet Music Reviewer Interesting Information about me: Favorite Movies: Star Wars Trilogy, Star Trek series, Transformers: The Movie, A Clockwork Orange, Indiana Jones Series, Stargate, The Fugitive Favorite TV Shows: Aeon Flux, Starblazers, Robotech, Banana Split, The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show, MacGyver, Highlander, The A-Team, Alf, Knight Rider, Marcellis on Music Favorite Books: The Dragonlance Series, The Battletech Series, Anything starting with Star Wars or Star Trek, The Belgariad, The Mallorean, Music Books Favorite Games: Doom, Doom 2, Descent, Ultima 1-8 and flavors, Bards Tale 1-3, Warlords 2, Star Control 2, Monopoly, Risk, Diplomacy Favorite Demos: Second Reality, Unreal, Panic, Dope, Pisstro, Crystal Dreams 2, deMONSTRAtion, No!, Just Art, Eden, Flight, Little Green Men Favorite Music: Dream Theater, Rush, Primus, INXS, 80's Synth Pop, Disco, Russian Folk, Classical, Movie Scoring (John Williams is my hero) Favorite Snacks:Baygles, Pizza, Reeces Peanut Butter Cups (crunchy), Altoids, Stuff like that. How I discovered demos: Some dood showed me Unreal the day it came out. I was hooked forever from then on. How I chose my handle: A game of word association when i was 9. What I like about the demo scene: The friends I seem to make who stick around. What I dislike about the demo scene: Quality seems to have gone downhill. Career plans: Uhm, when I get one you'll know it. Best day of my life: Still waiting. Worst day of my life: Not for your eyes. Trivia you should know: I created the scene's "Baygle" fettish. People I would like to meet today: The question is, do they want to meet me? (: What I hope to accomplish in the demo scene: Make music people enjoy more than once. How long it takes me to compose a tune: More time than you can shake a stick at. Slumps suck. What tracker do I compose music with: Scream Tracker 3.something. I can work with FT2 if necessary. Where I see the demo scene in 10 years: Gone. No more. What is missing from the demo scene: Something to give it longevity so it won't be dead in 10 years. What is overly abundant in the demo scene: Musicians. My Story Don't know what to say really. I was born and raised on music, I used to play music back on the piano from my old Commodore 64 games ( I can still do the ultima 3 and 4 music from memory, fear that) and from there took some lessons. My teacher always got mad because I took to playing by ear more than reading music. I enjoy picking up instruments and playing them for a little while, but I doubt I will ever get real good at anything for reals. I can do a mean Skaven's second reality on the keyboards tho. NAID witnesses unite. Currently I'm studying electronics at ITT technical college and wondering if I will survive all my classes. haw-kew-naw maw-taw-taw. If anyone has some game music job leads, by the way, please let me know so I can ponder a music demo tape of some kind. By the time this page goes up, I will probably be near the tail end of my tour of duty at KFC. Let me know. (: How you can contact me: Email is: norg@cyberspace.com Snail mail is: George Nowik 303 126th Ave. N.E. Bellevue, WA 98005 USA Phone thing is: (206)688-1980 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Information taken from Hornet homepage...
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