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Robert Fripp to Compose Vista's Soundtrack

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the no-more-eno dept.

brainstem writes "Recently, King Crimson founder, guitar master, and all around eccentric musical genius Robert Fripp spent a few days at the MS Campus recording soundscapes for Vista. Fripp, who has been at the forefront of electronic guitar composition for more than 35 years, first using analog tape delays, then with digital effects. He infused his unique brand of Frippertronics on the MS crowd. The Channel 9 site has posted a 25 minute video, chronicalling the event. Now I guess I finally have a reason to leave the default Windows sounds enabled."

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  1. Meanwhile midi lovers are crying by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Anyone remember the day when you bought a creative soundcard because it had proper midi support so you could listen to the ingame music at the quality the composer had intended?

    Same time roughly when a game music dir was measured in kilobytes not install cd's.

    First game to break the trend was I think Tomb Raider wich in a move I will never understand used actually audio tracks on the CD for both music and cutscene sound. Wich on my machine created horrible stuttering as the CD had to switch operating modes.

    Oh, sorry, I guess my old grumpy guy who doesn't like the future personality has slipped through again.

    YEAH, some unknown idiot gets to load a ton of mp3's in an already bloated OS to make sure yet another few cpu cycles are wasted and used to annoy everyone else in the office because people with funny desktop sounds never heard of headphones.

    Sorry that is as positive as I can get.

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  2. Wrong question -- not "who", ask "what" by BerntB · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Symphonic rock people like King Crimson, so I never listened since it probably is evil and pompous.

    And now Fripp works with Microsoft...

    Q E D

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  3. Re:If the sound is THAT good, by kubevubin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ha! "The Brave Little Toaster" had a pretty good soundtrack. I love the song at the junkyard, as well as the one at his owner's new apartment.
    Anyway, I do find it rather amusing that Linux users are so keen on stealing music files from a Windows installation. I mean, it's kinda like them using KDE already, anyway, since KDE is a rip-off of the Windows user interface. Go ahead, guys...keep on living in denial.