Microsoft Mix AE

[Mixerpuppet]

Microsoft is looking for a Mix AE who can record and produce sounds at a greater rate than the current 4 seconds every 18 months

http://www.komotv.com/news/4613112.html


Do you realy want Vista?

[dnafe]

But it's Fripp!

:D

[Fulcrum]

4 seconds every 18 months

Wow, now that's taking Frippertronics to extremes.

[eagan]

Let's not get too silly about this (not that I think the original post was necessarily meant all that seriously).

Being fairly interested in the work and activities of R. Fripp, I've taken note of the news and comments on this little process as it's been going. And it's pretty clear that, over the time (and multiple visits to Redmond for sessions) that this has been going, there has been a LOT more than 4 seconds of stuff produced.

The biggest problem, clearly, is what's happened after that. A Very Huge Corporation with who knows how many people having their say in endless meetings of Committee Corporate Group Think, trying to decide on what is the "perfect" few seconds for a bunch of different sounds that will be heard, as that article points out, ad nauseum.

Me, I think it's just "ah, I see you have the machine that goes BING!" taken to ultimate extremes. I don't give a fuck. This isn't "a new Fripp album".

I'm a PC/Windows user still fiercely hanging on to Windows 98 like a Luddite, not because I want to avoid anything new, but because I'm a guy who thinks "newer" is supposed to mean "better, improved". My experience of Microsoft operating systems, over about 15 years now, has been that every new version from these guys has meant a few improvements more than offset by being bigger and more bloated, eating up disk space, memory, slowing down processing, breaking (or simply disposing of) stuff that used to work, adding useless, silly, pointless crap (and babbling marketing bullshit about "the User Experience"), et cetera. (No, thank you, I don't need a fucking cinematic extravaganza of animation to accompany copying some files from one place on a hard disk to another).

The only good thing in this is that apparently Fripp has made a few bucks on a relatively easy gig.


JLE

[FajitaTone]

...The biggest problem, clearly, is what's happened after that. A Very Huge Corporation with who knows how many people having their say in endless meetings of Committee Corporate Group Think, trying to decide on what is the "perfect" few seconds for a bunch of different sounds that will be heard, as that article points out, ad nauseum.
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The only good thing in this is that apparently Fripp has made a few bucks on a relatively easy gig.


JLE


there is NOTHING easy about producing by committee. It happens to me EVERY DAY, and it makes the simplest task take FOREVER.

[eagan]

there is NOTHING easy about producing by committee. It happens to me EVERY DAY, and it makes the simplest task take FOREVER.

Um. Minor detail here, just to make myself clearer.

I said relatively easy gig for Fripp.

From what I gather of the story, he showed up with his gear to do a "work for hire" project, spent a day or three in a little studio in the MS corporate campus in Redmond, played a bunch of all kinds of stuff, packed up and flew back home, leaving them to take what they liked and use it how they would.

He made noises. They recorded them. They wrote a check. He left.

In other words, the "production by committee" part wasn't his
problem.



Having said that, I think this latest article pretty much serves as a good piece of evidence to prove your point on what you said, if anybody has any doubts about it.


JLE

[FajitaTone]

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