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Microsoft hires rocker to record Windows Vista sounds
Microsoft hires rocker to record Windows Vista sounds
British 1960s art-rocker Robert Fripp has been tapped by Microsoft to record the sounds which will be used in Windows Vista.Fripp, who was a co-founder of the influential band King Crimson and has also worked with Peter Gabriel and Talking Heads, recently spent some time at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington campus "recording the various sounds we'll all hear in Windows Vista", according to a video posted on Microsoft's MSDN Channel 9 website.Fripp is an electric guitarist noted for his ability to generate futuristic, electronic sounds from his instrument. From the evidence on the video posted on Microsoft's website, "Behind the scenes at [the] Windows Vista recording session", he's shooting for aural effects that wouldn't have been out of place in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".