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(Réalisé en Novembre 2019)

 

 

 

Sébastien Barrot :

1) Where do you live?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

At this moment live in Holland

 

Sébastien Barrot :

2 ) How old are you?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

I am already aged .. 73

 

Sébastien Barrot :

3) What is your path to becoming a musician?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

I chose when i became 18 between ART and Music

 

Sébastien Barrot :

4) Which year more precisely, did you start the "Synthesizer" collections?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

1990

 

Sébastien Barrot :

5) When composing your own music, what is your technique or strategy? Do you have a source of inspiration?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

No technique or strategie…no source of inspiration…..it came in the flow of moods i was in.

 

Sébastien Barrot :

6) How do you work when you start a new cover version? Do you listen to the original song as much as possible or do you use sheet music?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

listen to the original song as much as possible

 

Sébastien Barrot :

7) Have you ever thought about composing movie music?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

I did

 

Sébastien Barrot :

8) How many CDs have you made included. Covers "Synthesizer" Jean Michel Jarre - Vangelis - Mike Oldfield etc ... so your own compositions since the early 1990s?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

On synth based recordings…..I think about 40…..but hundreds in different compilaties

 

Sébastien Barrot :

9) Are there artists you would like to cover? Do you have novel covers never published in your "Synthesizer" collections?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

No

 

Sébastien Barrot :

10) What was your favorite "synthesizer"?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

I worked always with Synths of the brand KORG

 

Sébastien Barrot :

11 - What other additional modules did you use?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

Samplecell

 

Sébastien Barrot :

12) Have you used of "Sound Effects" in addition to your Synthesizers & Modules?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

Yes .. Lexicon

 

Sébastien Barrot :

13) Some of your covers like Jean Michel Jarre - Vangelis - Mike Oldfield etc ... of your CD collections, have different versions, did you use the same "Synthesizers"?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

The same Synths …but I never did Mike Oldfield that must be someone else Some cd companies mashed up.

from the given albums they made a mix themselves from different tracks from different recordings.

most of the tracks i did not record, bud some tracks are mine.

 

Sébastien Barrot :

14) Concerning your recordings of the "Synthesizer" and New Age collections (your own compositions) Did you have your own label?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

No…it started with TRC Music Holland

 

 

Sébastien Barrot :

15) Are there any other pseudonyms like "Bob Russell / Yeskim / Virtual Reality"?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

Yes there are a lot…..the last 10 years sinds the downhall of the cd market I dont know them all …it was out of my hands.

 

 

Sébastien Barrot :

16) Is the 2 pseudonyms "The Gary Tesca Orchestra" & "Ray Hamilton Orchestra" also yours?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

Yes .. these are all more or less instrumental hit covers….I think i did about 200 of them.

 

Sébastien Barrot :

17) Who is Mr. Levantis? "He also made CDs of relaxation music in the late 1990s"?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

This man”s real name is Pim Elshof and beleave it or not , he ones was my “friend”

I dont know why he uses this way to make people believe he made any record because he did not.

Once I borrowed him some money and I never saw him again. I dont know why.

So I think he is a “wannabe” and never “hasbeen” I feel sorry for him. I wish it was different.

 

Sébastien Barrot :

18) Concerning your covers & compositions since the early 1990s,

have you only used the "synthesizer" for wind instruments and string instruments such as: pan flute, guitar, saxophone, violin etc. ..?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

No….. I used SampleCell . an early computerbased sampleinstrument with Protools

 

Sébastien Barrot :

19) Who are "Vosges / Jakobin" these are also your pseudonyms?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

these are the most early pseudonyms registered for early - composites

 

Sébastien Barrot :

20) Have you made the collections CDs "Nature Voices" - The Water Cycle - Moods (your own compositions)?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

The Water Cycle - and Moods are mine

 

Sébastien Barrot :

21) Regarding your project from the collection "A Voyage To" in the late 1990s, you used the "Surround Effects, is there also another collection "Surround Effects"?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

I Think not….. else i forgot

 

 

Sébastien Barrot :

22) In the 1990s, during your recordings of the collections "Synthesizer" (under the name of H.Ruseler) would you have liked to produce compilations "Synthesizer" (Jean Michel Jarre - Vangelis - etc ...) & albums (your own compositions) in collaboration with the musician Ed Starink?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

No I did not….. But Ed (also Holland) did a fine job.

 

 

Sébastien Barrot :

23) What are 2 artists "Jean Michel Jarre & Vangelis" do you have more preference?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

No….. at that time those names did sale

 

Sébastien Barrot :

24) What think of the musical progress of these last decades?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

not much ..…bud the last 7 years the bands and artists have a more scooled musicals sound…I Like that

 

 

Sébastien Barrot :

25) What are you doing now, do you have musical projects on CD or digital download with new covers of Jean Michel Jarre - Vangelis - Mike Oldfield etc ... or your own compositions?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

No I stopped recording and enjoy life in a different way

 

Sébastien Barrot :

26) What do you do when you do not play or listen to music?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

enjoy life

 

 

Sébastien Barrot :

27) Do you have a website?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

No

 

Sébastien Barrot :

28) Do play in a Dutch Rock Band?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

No

 

Sébastien Barrot :

29) Do you still have other hobbies than music?

 

HENDRICUS RUSELER :

Science