Upon being asked to do a remix for U.S. pop singer Madonna, James replied that he would produce the track on the sole condition that she portray a pig on it for him. In addition, according to an interview with Mixmaster Morris during the Breezeblock “We Luv Aphex” tribute show on October 31, 2005, when an unnamed female pop artist requested a remix a few years ago, she was flatly ignored by Richard. She then supposedly flew to London, tracked down Richard at a club, and was told that he’d only do the track if she “recorded a quota of noises with her genitalia” onto a DAT tape for sampling. Whether this is another variation of the Madonna story or just a flat out lie is unclear.
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Ma e’ possibile che non si possa ancora fare causa allo Stato, per evidenti crimini di Stato?
Richard claims to have produced sound on a Sinclair ZX81 (a machine with no sound hardware) at the age of 11:
When I was 11, I won 50 pounds in a competition for writing this program that made sound on a ZX81. You couldn’t make sound on a ZX81, but I played around with machine code and found some codes that retuned the TV signal so that it made this really weird noise when you turned the volume up.
By displaying patterns that induced excessive sidebands in the video signal, the lower sideband was forced to spill over into the audio portion of the TV signal’s spectrum. While the ZX81 was designed to filter the lower sideband of the video signal out, its simple circuitry did not remove all of it, and James’ software was supposedly able to overcome the filtering.
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THE ULTIMATE FORM OF DISRESPECT.
It’s the video of the final moments of Neda Agha Soltan’s life. Even if you’ve seen the footage before, you should watch it again.
But this time bear in mind the following: the cameraman was not a professional reporter, but rather an ordinary person, just like the victim. And what did he do when he saw a young girl bleeding to death? Did he run for help, or try to assist in stemming the bleeding? No he didn’t. Instead he pointed his camera at her and recorded her suffering, moving in closer to her face for her agonising final seconds. For all of our talk of citizen journalism, and getting the truth out, the last thing that terrified girl saw before she closed her eyes for the final time was some guy pointing a cameraphone at her. “Look at me, looking at her, looking back at me.” [Paul Carr]
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It’s just what we do now, no matter whether we’re heading out for dinner or witnessing a massacre on an Army base. [Paul Carr]
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