peterchilvers.com
Musician and software designer. Collaborator with Brian Eno, Karl Hyde and Tim Bowness, co-creator of Bloom and Scape, cofounder of Burning Shed. Fond of Dogs.
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Thanks Rodney - great photos! Nice to see you there.
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Thank you - so pleased you’re enjoying it!
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Quite! It was unexpected though, by me at least. I hadn’t thought beyond making an experimental music device, but we quickly started getting messages from carers of autistic children as well as dementia patients. And many, many parents getting children to sleep…
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I’m a bit late stumbling across this post, but thank you! I’m wary of making any bold claims about Bloom, but we’ve had anecdotal reports of people with advanced dementia responding well to it. One non-verbal patient started happily singing along with it, which was very moving.
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Small world! I joined MI in 94, I think, and was on Creatures a year or so later. Maybe we met!
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I’ve always found monarchies a bit too ruly.
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Can I interest you in buying my vintage fork collection?
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I’m delighted to have enhanced the blopfest!
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I’m enjoying the refreshing optimism of believing the world will still be standing in 2032.
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I don’t think I can go sadly - shame, that does look very much my cup of tea.
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I probably should have mentioned that before posting about the 1972 blocked window thing.
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Misread that as “Mess in a flat”.
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I’m hoping that she calls her next album “Marquis de Sade”.
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Logic Pro
Xcode
MainStage
Final Cut Pro
Ableton Live
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That was supposed to be “I correctly remembered”. Stupid autocorrect…
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I think I saw your driver go on stage after Robin Williams in a comedy club in London years ago. The definition of a tough act to follow…
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The song is featured in the second of Brian Eno’s Amber radio shows for Apple Music.
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Good to see you here!
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« Very God » feels like it should be spoken in a sarcastic, slightly camp tone of voice.
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I’d very happily pass on mixing over to a competent and communicative AI. Never enjoyed polishing mixes, I wish I did.
Also marketing!
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I found my old four track in the attic the other day, didn’t realise I still had it. Some day I’ll pluck up the courage to see if it still plays my old tapes.
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Just finished MV3 - congratulations, it’s one of the most beautiful soundtracks I’ve heard in ages. Sounded amazing on AirPods Pro.
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It reminds me of a parent pushing their child to play with the awkward kid at the playground. “I’m sure you’ll have fun when you get to know him” etc.
Only the awkward kid is Mark Zuckerburg.
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Years ago when I worked at a games company, something was delivered in packaging that not only looked like wotsits, it smelt like wotsits. Eventually tried one, and it tasted like wotsits, so we all followed suit. Then we all felt quite ill, and realised that eating packaging isn’t a good idea.
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And I didn’t even include the spicy Mexican peanut wotsit-like things I found last week. I’m not sure they’re even crisps. Maybe one day science will tell us.
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That said, a few hours ago my little boy asked me the same question, and went for these. Which seem to only exist in the mostly-Polish corner shop in town.
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These beauties are “Mustard Octopus” flavour. You can occasionally find them in oriental supermarkets. Like nice sushi, if it were a bag of crisps.
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i played at a Nick Drake tribute at the 12 Bar Club back in the 90s, and found myself daydreaming that he shambled onto stage as if he’d never left. I wonder what he’d have sounded like if he’d made it to 76. I’d imagine having a bit more gravel to his voice would suit him and his songs well.
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Giving this a listen now - you’re right, fantastically inventive album. Thanks for the recommendation.