And this was the other one I "got" to do. I had always sort of wanted to do MOSTLY music like this, but that didn't seem to practical. I didn't want to be one of those wankers who makes music to please himself with no thought at all to what people value in music. I think I've only struck the balance between those two in the last few years, with the new album.

    I made those data sounds myself as follows: I cut the PC speaker off my computer and connected a regular audio cable to the output instead. I plugged this output into my mixer and turned the gain WAY UP. Whenever the computer did anything, you could hear it in the speaker output. One usually wouldn't notice this because it's so quiet.

    For those of you who've wondered what these people are saying: