Robert Fripp to Design Vista's Soundtrack

I realize this is ancient news (by blog standards at least), but I at least wanted to give my shout out as I’m a huge Fripp (and along the same vein, Eno (who did the Windows 95 startup sound)) fan.  The Channel9 video on it is pretty fascinating as well; Fripp is well known for not letting people photograph or film him while he’s working.  He’s a master of creating incredibly textured music, usually more towards the ambient end of the spectrum (as of late at least).  So some good news in light of this, though given a choice I’d rather MS pour money into the Vista GUI over the Vista soundtrack (“dude, you’ve got to hear MS’s new operating system, it sounds so frickin’ cool!”…something tells me this isn’t what IT managers are looking for).  Granted I prefer audio over video any day, but not in my OS.

Sidenote:  This is my 500th post, yayee!

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Only published comments... Jan 09 2006, 07:20 PM by Jayson Knight

Filed under: Vista and WinFX, Music

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	Sushant Bhatia said: Congratulations on 500!!! How many words in total is that? January 10, 2006 10:18 AM
	Jayson Knight said: Enough to make my fingers really hurt. Ran a quick and dirty query on the database; it's around a quarter of a million, though maybe 10% of them are actually useful :-). January 11, 2006 1:46 PM

About Jayson Knight

Jayson Knight was clueless to the computer programming world until he took a C++ class in college. The rest is proverbial history. He has been building applications targeting the .Net framework for 7 years, focusing mainly on internet technologies and database driven web application development.

Most recently he left the world of Corporate IT to finish up his degree in Chemistry, with an eye on Medical School and an Anesthesiology residency program. Read this post for more information.

He is also a Community Server MVP: Community Server is the software that runs this site, plus many others on the web. For more information, check out http://csmvps.com.

When he finds time to pry himself away from his computer and university studies, he can be found on the mountain bike trails when it's warm, and on the ski slopes when it's cold.