Don't know the significance.
Posted on 11/10/2006 6:52:06 PM PST by djf
Rock guitarist Robert Fripp, famed founder of the 70's heavy metal group "King Crimson", was contracted by Microsoft to compose a new theme for the Vista operating system. The four second sound bite took 18 months to develop and record.
(I still think their best was "Lark's Tongue in Aspic")
Great tune.
I'm tryin to find a pointer to a .wav file
No luck so far.
I just replaced the LP with a CD several months ago. Emerson, Lake and Palmer did the song also on there Return of the Manticore anthology.
21st was one of the first songs I learned on the bass.
I have the 30 year Anniversary Edition of "Court of the Crimson King". Some interesting liner historical notes.
A couple other of their albums actually on vinyl, but they're all in storage. I should dig them out and digitize them.
I did a transcription of 'Larks Tongues in Aspic Part III' from 'Three of a Perfect Pair' and performed it as a solo/duet on saxophone once upon a time. Damn, that was hard, but it was worth it.
I have plenty of Fripp on my iPod.
Don't know the significance.
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I don't have that album, but do have a compilation album titled "The Compact King Crimson" with a couple of the better songs from it. I also have Fripp's "Exposure" album, and he plays with Bowie, Eno, Talking Heads, etc. on some other albums.
"In the Court..." was my favorite. Saw them in concert in about 1973. The "Exposure" album sounds good.
Still, I'd like to know why a new Okinawan bowling joint is using the cover art from a 35 year old album that was reasonably obscure.
The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, ``Here's a specific problem -- solve it.''The thing from the agency said, ``We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,'' this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said ``and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long.''
I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel.
In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.
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