Fabio Barzagli
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Fabio Barzagli (b. 1974)is an Italian creative musician, sound designer and seeking in computer music, branch of the electronic music, field that has been developing since the end of '80 and having it's own diffusion in the middle of '90 mainly through international competitions named demoparty. These competitions are taking place, nowadays, in the most important European and Extra-European capitals, where Mr. Barzagli is well-known and appreciated with the name of fby.
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[edit] Biography
- 1980 (6 years old) he began studies as classical guitar player (with the Carlo Mascilli Migliorini), his favourite authors were Segovia, Fernando Sor and Paco de Lucía.
- 1986 (12 years old) started composing music on a Commodore Amiga 500 with Aegis Sonix, Oktalyzer, and Soundtracker.
- 1992 got the Music Garden school certificate (with the Luigi Gagliardi)
- 1996 he made first experiences like sound effects maker & sound designer
He's been composing about one thousand pieces since 1986 until today going from the classic music to movie soundtrack, rock, ethnic and also videogame and techno music.
[edit] European demoscene
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Demoscene |
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| Concepts |
| Demo - Demoparty - Effects - Demogroup - Compo |
| Parties |
| Current: Alternative Party - Assembly - Breakpoint - Buenzli - Evoke - The Gathering |
| Past: Mekka & Symposium - The Party - Scene Event |
| Websites |
| Hornet Archive - Pouët - Scene.org - demoscene.tv |
He's been tracking on the demoscene between 1994 and 2007 as member of:
SoftOne, Dark Age, Spyral, X-Zone, Phase Distortion.
He won several parties, here some:
- Saturne Party 1996 in Paris - 1st place with Under The Sea
- The Party 1995 in Herning (Denmark) - 1st place with The Morning After
- The Italian Gathering (Italy) - 1st place with Apache
- G.A.S.P. in Montpellier (France) - 2nd place with Zenith
- Mekka Symphosium in Fallingbostel (Germany) - 4th place with Pinked
- Solskogen 2006 in Norway - 3rd place with Dreaming Jungle
- Outline in Braamt, the Netherlands - 1st place with Tear come to her eyes
- Buenzli 2006 in Switzerland - 5th place with Life 4 Peace
- 7D6 Demoparty in Istanbul (Turkey) - 3rd place with Overmoon
- 15 years Oxyron Party in Germany - 1st place with Escape From The Dark
- Outline in Braamt, the Netherlands - 1st place with Country Gunman
- DIHALT Party 2007 in Russia - 1st place with Oh yes Jazz!
[edit] Videogames
He has composed the music of several world-wide distributed computer games like Trauma Zero (click boom, shoot'em up), Tony Tough and the night of Roasted Moths (Microids, adventure game), Xtm motor racing (Midas UK, arcade), The Nutecracker (Game Boy title), Euro League Manager (Manik Europe, soccer manager), Steam Empire (atlanteq, arcade) and many other tracks for Colors Multimedia, HP games, and Dinabyte.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- LINKEDIN professional profile
- permanent Aminet archive
- Official Scene archive
- Modarchive.com database
- Amiga Music Preservation archive
- Palace Garden Concerto, an artistic animation about The Last Ninja and Commodore 64
- Fby on ILike.com, tunes streaming
- LemonAmiga.com videogames archive

