Madness Factor

Over at Create Digital Music, there’s a post about sound designer Johnny Random, who was hired by an ad agency to record a holiday composition of his choice for their bicycle company client. The catch? Instead of traditional instruments (or even virtual instruments), he was asked to use sounds made by bicycle parts. He chose [...]

A loooong time ago I wrote about Robert Fripp doing the sounds for Windows Vista. Well now you can hear those compositions juxtaposed with the sounds of Windows XP. I dunno—they sound a little new-agey to me. But maybe those subtle tinklings are less annoying than the XP repertoire when heard over and over again. [...]

I know, I know, I know. A ridiculous amount of time has passed since my last post. It’s inexcusable. But, here comes the excuse anyway: Now that I write for a living, writing as a hobby has lost its appeal. The last thing I want to do when I get home from a full day [...]

A post on slashdot pointed me to this article in the UK newspaper, The Independent, that details the beginnings of a revolt by users of MySpace against media mogul/MySpace owner Rupert Murdoch. All I can say is, it’s about time. I knew that as a musician, I should probably jump on the MySpace bandwagon, but [...]

Being a big King Crimson fan, I was surprised to read on slashdot that Robert Fripp was recently on the Microsoft campus recording some soundscapes for the company’s upcoming OS, Vista. If you’re familiar with Fripp’s discography, I recommend you peruse the comments below the post —some of them are laugh-out-loud funny.
Here’s one I particularly [...]