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Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

Mike Burke — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:13:58 GMT

Watching this man work is great. He seems quite nice and friendly here which is in complete contradiction to his public image.

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

Corey O'Brien — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:15:07 GMT

oh my god how breathtaking. I love this i wish it was a complete track on windows vista like a song by him or something that would be nice, or having it as a background for Windows Media center. it sounds like it would specifically flow with it. Or make it background noise with the Windows Logon. That would be very cool

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

Warhammer — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:50:43 GMT

Great video indeed :) Thomas Warhammer Online

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

zyphlar — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:52:14 GMT

So whatever happened to this? The Vista sounds don't really seem to match anything in this session...

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

Vente Caffeinato — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:38:46 GMT

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Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

Vente Caffeinato — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:37:59 GMT

mclement wrote:
Ahh I wish I knew he was on campus... I'd have tried to sneak in the session

-mano

Me too!

- Vente

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

oleksus — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:14:46 GMT

on wrote:
phm wrote:I've never seen any indication of him or those of his musical genre and ability follow the masses, much less support them. And if ever there was a mass on this planet, it's Microsoft users. It's downright scary. Fripp and his contemporaries' music has always been the creative result of showing no interest whatsoever in what everybody else is doing. And now Microsoft? Robert, what were you thinking? Life is filled with bitter ironies. What I've heard sounds nice, but what place does it have on a MS operating system?

Excuse me but your statements are totally insane.
It has nothing to do with the "masses".
Brian Eno wrote those startup sound for Windows 95. Now Fripp made it for Vista. It's good. Steve Ball asked Fripp - i think it was his idea.
You shouldn't mix up Microsoft, the company with the creative souls working there.

This is an all-time mistake - everybody underestimates the programmers working at Microsoft. They are not worse than the ones working at Apple.

I've seen people who haven't heard of King Crimson or Fripp, as well as people who never listened to albums beyond '79 or so. There's nothing wrong with it - just a bit of irony for what is missed. I've been into KC music for quite awhile now, in and out.
I'd say it's a sign of the time that Balmer hired Fripp to record this. Fripp means timeless music - you were right he never pursued commercial success. But in the meantime he managed to achieve something out of the "mainstream range" of goals - a sound and music BOLD and BIG (quoting Steve Balmer's other words) capable of being soft, subtle, opaque, sublime and futuristic at once.

You never listened to King Crimson beyond 70-es or 80-s?
Absolutely get a chance to listen to "Power to Believe" album, Just buyt it - you will wish to keep it in your collection regardless of what your musical preferences are.
check out the www.disciplineglobalmobile.com and download the available live recordings of Fripp.

It's just the music of the times that are at hand.

Re: Robert Fripp ?????

intelman — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:09:23 GMT

Would it be possible to make available some ambient loops of this, maybe with some other possible themes in there? The final sounds do sound cool, but some of that stuff in that video sounded awesome too!

Robert Fripp ?????

jocko — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:22:11 GMT

who the hell is
Robert Fripp?!?!?!? :s

and by the way, everything I've seen the vista demos has been done for years with Linux (KDE, Gnome, Xorg, etc) [6]

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

dentaku — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:51:37 GMT

pirate_jonno wrote:
Now all they need is an Greg Lake/Adrian Belew version of Microsoft Sam!

In XP you get a generic robotic sounding voice but you can pay extra to get much better voices, I'm hoping that Vista just includes the more human sounding ones right out of the box.

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

pirate_jonno — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:26:09 GMT

Now all they need is an Greg Lake/Adrian Belew version of Microsoft Sam!

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

piercedsphynx — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:55:11 GMT

tuningfork wrote:
Oh dear. Although I have great respect for Mr Fripp I've heard the same stuff on relaxation tapes. Come on guys get a grip. It's a poor video - why wasn't it "treated" before posting so I didn't have to mess up my settings just to see it?

Someone said it all sounded the same but just slighly different and the reply was that's the idea of a theme. NO IT ISN'T! The idea of a theme is to be instantly recognisable and be able to associate it with the product/show. This sounds like a million other ambient sounds.

Waste of money and time afaic.

Interesting... your screenname would imply that you know something about sound, "tuningfork"...yet when you posted your comments, you just completely blew that theory out of the water.

This is a behind-the-scenes look, as blatantly stated in the title. Not a finished product.

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

piercedsphynx — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:49:36 GMT

integrationarchitect wrote:

The use of ascending combinations in D & E major and augmented chords with backing keyboards, the Fripp scheme makes great baby don’t cry nursery atmosphere. Plus it would root 0 to 2 year olds to develop life long appetite for Microsoft Products.... but Fripps scheme will get old after a week for most of us…. So here are the better suggestions for the masses….. Dear Microsoft, The importance of sound schemes and VISTA’s value would increase if more energetic schemes featuring Eddie Van and Alex Van Halen were included. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page including Jon Bonham with a Thunder of Drums would be a remarkable scheme and make VISTA penetrate global software market like the Xbox 360 does now. Even Cadillac marketers found out where the money and prestige is, but VISTA could take it to the next level. Microsoft you could build in some animated mouse over effects with the extroverted stage mannerisms of legendary guitarist Angus Young to definitely make Vista the most desirable for the mass market appeal. If necessary, users could pay a small premium on that scheme to entice AC/DC cooperation for starters since Media Center edition is going to become rolled into VISTA it is a natural. Microsoft, let me suggest you take the following approach with AC/DC, you will have to tie this VISTA sound scheme effort as a tease for the AC/DC 2006/7 world tour and new release double album release they are recording with Mutt Lang in Vancouver. But use a UK Microsoft marketing executive who lives a proper pub life over in North London to initially get this connected.

Your sarcasm is both annoying and precocious. Go choke on a banana.

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

piercedsphynx — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:44:29 GMT

I can't wait to see what the final product sounds like!

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

DiegoV — Thu, 25 May 2006 04:17:23 GMT

Yggdrasil wrote:

I don't know who's idea it was to get Fripp to do the sounds for Vista, but s/he is nothing less than a god. Please let whomever it is know they made my day.

Maybe it was David LaValle's idea. He works for Microsoft now and I know he was on a Guitar Craft recently in southamerica and perhaps Fripp was there too. Oh well, I guess he is not the only crafty guitarrist in Redmond...

Anyway, I agree this is brilliant! I still remember the first time I heard KC and was so amazed I had to call the radio station to find out who they were.

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

jag216 — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:19:48 GMT

I can't think of a better person to encapsulate in sound both the great successes and inevitable failures of windows operations.

Although I think it would be quite funny to have Robert record sounds for the entry points and flowing progress as someone else manages something more caustic for errors... If only Muslimgauze was still alive, or perhaps Aphex Twin or MBM.

Not to say that Robert is unable to sound alarming in his own right. But if we are going to put together people who consider the physical and spiritual nature of sound as being important, I would think there would be some experiments worth trying.

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

SteveBall — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:18:51 GMT

-- I doubt you'd get either one of these fine men to touch a PC running Windows! --

Not true - Robert used Windows-based PCs through most of the nineties and into the early 2000's -- before that, he used DOS-based systems.

Also, Robert and David Singleton use SADiE (Windows-based audio mastering tool) for mixing/mastering every Fripp/Crimson release over the past (ten?) years.  My experience is that Robert is generally both technology and brand agnostic, but he makes decisions based upon the quality of his own 'user experience' and the quality of the people who introduce him to new technologies and products.

Jenny Lam, Tjeerd Hoek and the MSX team presented Vista demos to Robert before this session, and his comments were both encouraging and positive.

That said, I've seen almost every musician in the Crimson camp (and almost every other segment of the music industry) move to Powerbooks for their primary machines over the past few years.

For musical road warriors, I believe a combination of excellent out of box experience, ongoing perceived ease-of-use, peer pressure, and Windows virus nightmares pushed many former Windows users (back) to the Mac.

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Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

DavidRavenMoon — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:29:17 GMT

You know the REAL irony here is both Fripp and Eno are well known Mac users! Eno even used a Mac to create the W95 startup sound! I doubt you'd get either one of these fine men to touch a PC running Windows! Fripp is THE greatest guitarist ... period!

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

birdlandcc — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:25:28 GMT

Squeeky chair was in the control room not the sound booth that the amps and speakers were being recorded from. I am doubting the squeeky chair noises made it thru the sound proofed studio walls. I am sure that the Microsoft developers aren't interested in having Eddie and his Brother give someone a heartattack when they click their mouse and trigger an error sound by accident.

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

SteveBall — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:43:17 GMT

Thanks RF/KC is good stuff, although I'm more into Peter Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator. 'Pawn Hearts' and 'Godbluff' are amazing, if you're into that stuff. Robert Fripp played on ' Pawn Hearts' and probably some other PH/VDGG stuff. They were musical friends of sorts.

Fripp played also on VDGG's H to He album

Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

tfar — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:47:41 GMT

I have always changed my own Windows default sounds to Fripp in the past so it is great to know that with Vista it won't be necessary!