interview

This month LMP talked to Babis Kouvalis, guitarist and FLOSS enthusiast. Babis has a YouTube channel where he demos FLOSS software, primarily Guitarix.

Hi Babis and thank you for taking the time to do the interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living?

I live in Athens, Greece with my girlfriend at her house. At the moment I'm unemployed due to the economic crisis, but I have much more time to work with music and live from it.

This month LMP talked to Lucas Zawacki, guitarist, FLOSS enthusiast and founder of musical-artifacts.com, an online resource that brings together presets, synth patches, sample libraries, and more, all in one place for users to browse, download and/or contribute their own.

Hi Lucas and thank for you for taking the time to do the interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living?

This month LMP talked to Sebastian Posch, Linux enthusiast and guitar teacher who likes to incorporate Linux into his teaching sessions.

Hi Sebastian and thank you for taking the time to do the interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living?

This month LMP talked to David Robillard, long time member of the community and author of several FLOSS-projects related to Linux audio. One of David's projects is LV2, the current standard for Linux audio plugins, and the successor of the old standard LADSPA.

Where do you live, and what do you do for a living?

This month we talk to Tobiasz Karoń, better known online as Unfa. Tobiasz's passion is electronic music and open source software. He creates music using GNU/Linux based systems and is a massive fan of ZynAddSubFX. His favourite distro is KXStudio and his favourite DAWs are LMMS and Ardour. LMMS for sequencing and synthesizing, Ardour for recording, editing and mastering.

This month, in our first ever double interview, we talk to Max and Dadda of the Creative Commons band John Option. They are both FLOSS enthusiasts who enjoy making music on Linux and then sharing it with the world.

Max (left) and Dadda (right)

Hi Max and Dadda, thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living?

This month we talked to Florian Bador, FLOSS audio enthusiast and founder of music distribution website, Trust Music, that promotes open audio formats.

Hi Florian, thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living?

I am located in Santa Monica, California.

This month we talked to Giovanni A. Zuliani, the founder and project manager of Giada LoopMachine, a minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.

Hi Giovanni, thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living?

I, along with my team live in Milan (northern Italy), working as a freelancer/IT consultant. Lately I’m doing a lot of web development, with pleasure I must say.

This month we talked to Markus Schmidt. Markus has been a member of the Calf team since 2009. As well as being the brains behind many of the Calf plugins, Markus is also responsible for the design of every visual aspect of Calf.

Hi Markus, thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living?

This month we talked to Damien Zammit. As well as being the developer of zam-plugins, he has also contributed to the coreboot project, Calf studio plugins and Linux drivers for various audio interfaces. He maintains his own website over at ZamAudio.com.