h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'll help. I have a few DV cameras, a crummy studio and sequencing software. I can do 'not very good' animations. I also write music and would love to write some music for hootoo. That said I think a lot of the musicians guild would. You should go ask them...

Must dash, I have a flamenco/hip-hop gig to attend

that sounds good. Can you play music, too?

I am the master of the one finger keyboard bassline!

I write/sequence/produce/fiddle-incessantly with electronic music. I never really saw the need for actual musicians: I have an orchestra of shiny boxes that go beep, whoosh, chakachaka, woooorp, boing, gribble etc.

Sounds like fun.

It is.

For instance, take the sound of one goat or sheep (made of a rapid succession of plosive 'ah' sounds) pitch this sound down by two octaves and you have the sound of the most evil laugh in the world...

Mwah mwah mwah mwah

Although I tend to spend too much time with my nose pressed against virtual shop windows ing over very, very expensive things I don't need.

Aha. Can't say I myself waste my time like that - I don't even look into real shop windows - which always proves as a mistake when customers ask for something they've seen in our shop window. I have to go out and look what they mean.

I know a shop keep who does that. I think it adds to the experience.

I think the big 'no no' for shop keepers is a forgetfulness in regards to what their products cost in conjunction with a susceptibility to haggling.

I do apologise. I went away last week, and must have missed this in the backlog. We'd certainly like your help!

Email us at h2g2aviators[at]yahoogroups[dot]com and I'll let you in to the email group

Thanks, Bel, for pointing this out to me

If nothing else, I can at least have an eye on volunteers.

I got the email wrong, because I'm a bit of a Dilbert. It should be h2g2aviators[at]googlemail[dot]com

Disregard Rich's last post, the first post is correct. It's a yahoo group with a yahoo email - I used it only today.
Except you've created a group on gmail that I don't know anything about, Rich?

The Googlemail address is correct for invites, as if you email the group as a non-member it won't go through. We have a Googlemail account for administration and to receive comments, not that we've had any yet. So h2g2aviators[at]googlemail[dot]com it is

I had no idea.

I haven't mailed the doodad yet as I'm at work and I keep being distracted by the aforementioned beeping devices... I do note however that in PR there is an entry called 'The lost chord' A29651439 that could seriously benefit from some music. It was written over 100 years ago (the music, not the entry)so I belive there is no copyright extant for the score. I could do a synth version of the theme.

What think you?

That's a wonderful idea!