Fabio Barzagli

Fabio Barzagli (born 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 the '80s and having its own diffusion in the middle of the '90s 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.

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

Barzagli has been composing about one thousand pieces since 1986 until today going from the classic music to movie soundtrack, rock, ethnic and also video game and techno music.

European demoscene

He has been tracking on the demoscene between 1994 and 2007 as a member of:

SoftOne, Dark Age, Spyral, X-Zone, Phase Distortion.

Some of his awards include:

* Saturne Party 1996 in Paris - 1st place with [http://modarchive.org/module.php?135786 Under The Sea]

* The Party 1995 in Herning (Denmark) - 1st place with [http://modarchive.org/module.php?135784 The Morning After]

* The Italian Gathering (Italy) - 1st place with Apache

* G.A.S.P. in Montpellier (France) - 2nd place with [http://aminet.net/mods/fby/Zenith.lha Zenith]

* Mekka Symphosium in Fallingbostel (Germany) - 4th place with Pinked

* Solskogen 2006 in Norway - 3rd place with Dreaming Jungle

* DIHALT 2006 in Nizhny Novgorod Russia - 2nd place with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ1j3IAfWQ Lifetree] (flash animation compo)

* Outline in Braamt, the Netherlands - 1st place with Tear come to her eyes

* Buenzli 2006 in Switzerland - 5th place with [http://fby.develer.com/fby2/mp3/life-4-peace.xm 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 [http://modarchive.org/module.php?94976 Country Gunman]

* DIHALT Party 2007 in Russia - 1st place with [http://modarchive.org/module.php?90147 Oh yes Jazz!]

Video games

He has composed the music of several worldwide 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.

External links

* [http://fby.develer.com Official site]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiobarzagli LINKEDIN professional profile]
* [http://aminet.net/mods/fby permanent Aminet archive]
* [ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/fby Official Scene archive]
* [http://modarchive.org/index.php?query=fby&request=search&search_type=guessed_artist Modarchive.com database]
* [http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?detail=modules&view=2658 Amiga Music Preservation archive]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdGIaIimK-Y Palace Garden Concerto, an artistic animation about The Last Ninja and Commodore 64]
* [http://www.ilike.com/artist/Fabio+Barzagli Fby on ILike.com, tunes streaming]