2011 — 18 October: Tuesday
Next thing I know, it's after midnight and I've just finished listening to a BBC 6Music documentary1 ("The Great Bleep Forward") featuring the usual suspects — inter alia, Walter/Wendy Carlos, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, TONTO's Expanding Head Band, and — inevitably — Pink Floyd.
The gentleman who became a lady was too expensive for us to use a fragment of his/her music as a theme tune on a training package I wrote in ICL over 36 years ago. I ended up using a royalty-free sample off an electronic sound effects vinyl album. I haven't thought of that for many years. Christa and I also attended a short evening course on synthesisers at South Hill Park, Bracknell, where I did the bulk of the studio script recordings for my first "book". I enjoyed my time on both sides of the recording studio glass booth. Heck, I even briefly considered moving from computing to recording.
I didn't :-)
But now it's time for sleep, methinks. G'night.
Dmitri?
While it was amusing to take "The Dead Russian Composer Personality Test" (thanks, Tom) it probably wasn't smart to do so while also listening to the fascinating interview with Steven Pinker.
Knock, knock
As I await Len's arrival — he's decided it's easier to eat out than buy food — I note today's fun delivery:
I'm about halfway through this delectable series. I also got that CD of Cuban choral music (playing as I type) and Christa received a "warning" from the Anglian home 'improvement' pirates that the guarantee on our double glazing is about to expire and would she therefore like to throw further good money after bad2 by insuring their handiwork? I can quite clearly hear her response to this outlandish suggestion.
Nina Conti rules
Unlike everybody else, I suspect, I've only just discovered the talents of Nina Conti. I caught up with last Saturday's episode of QI (extended) "Inventive" and was at one point actually weeping with laughter. Magic.