About me
Date: Jun 18th, 2008
Music
I started to learn to play the piano at 8 years with Elza Gay, then with Bruno Pietri. In 73, I discover rock music. Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Status Quo, Deep Purple, UFO, Nazareth. I was a progressive rock fan with Yes, Genesis, King Crimson…
I start to play the guitar and learn with Jean-Jacques Beguin, later with Guy Maxwell.
During 4 years, from 78 to 82, I follow jazz workshops at the A.M.R of Geneva with Maurice Magnoni and Olivier Magnenat. I discover Charlie Christian, Django, Barney Kessel, Kenny Burell, George Benson, Joe Pass, etc.
I spend numerous nights fiddling with synthethizers. Also some guitar lessons with Henri Don Jeany.
Years later, Marc Liebeskind invites me to play the bass at his jazz workshop. More recently, I studied some guitar techniques with the help of Christophe Godin.
I played in numerous local bands, Ornicar, Daniel Raemy Big Band, Turtlewalk, and many more with no names to be mentionned.
You can find some of my work on my MySpace page: www.myspace.com/fredometro
Programming
My first headaches in front of a computer was in 75. I spent many hours in front of a teletype and listings in Basic and Fortran. A moonlanding game, some equation solving programs were my first babies.
Some years later I discovered Pascal language, and some graphic libraries helped me to develop my very first music sheet application.
Serious work went after my diploma, when I worked with Oracle and Access. I still do this, maybe years passed too quickly… But it is still enjoyable, although it presents some kind of routine now.
I am actually into learning .Net: I just migrated my old web crawler from VB6 into .Net and ADO. Not too late, maybe it will use an Oracle or MySql database.