{"id":10136,"date":"2017-01-09T20:24:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:35:53","slug":"episode-200-thomas-dolby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-200-thomas-dolby","title":{"rendered":"Episode 200 – Thomas Dolby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show #200:
\nThomas Dolby<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I’m never happier than when I’m out in my converted lifeboat studio staring out over the North Sea, playing with sounds. I prefer sounds to people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Two-hundred episodes!? Who’d’a thunk it? My guest for this special anniversary show is musician, tech entrepreneur, professor and now memoirist Thomas Dolby<\/a>! We talk about his new book, The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir<\/a>\"\", the upsides and downsides of his major careers, the gestalt of artist-artwork-audience, his curious mixture of shyness and arrogance, our respective imposter syndromes, teaching music for films, moving beyond the keyboard as a computer interface, having students who don’t know about his music career, looking back at his life and starting to figure out the big picture, and meeting the one rock band that doesn’t find Spinal Tap funny. (Jump to 7:00 to skip my intro.) Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Thomas Dolby’s memoir, The Speed of Sound<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I don’t write relationship lyrics. I don’t write typical pop lyrics. I start where typical pop lyrics leave off. The obsessions that I have, about geography, history, the planet, about technologies and their faults, about parallel worlds, and about my role in those worlds as a dissident: that seems to be what connects with a certain type of person.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n