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One of the plusses of lockdown is that people have more time to write to magazines like us! So here are some of the best – and most bonkers – mails we’ve received in a new (and hopefully regular) slot… Email [e-mail]

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Attention please!

Dear CM,

Coffee in a teapot, green hypermonsters, sporks, spfoons, drumsticks, fire hydrants, steelo sponges, octophonics, the ultrasynthesizer and Tree(3) vs multidimensional Ursell-Array functions.

And, now that I have your attention, please let me introduce myself. My name is Mr. Sarn Richard Ursell, and I am emailing you from Wellington, New Zealand.

May I please make a suggestion to you, as an avid reader of your magazine? Have you ever considered making a total package, of each and every and all Computer Music magazines that you have ever done? You know, for sale as one, complete package?

And also, have you ever done an article on microtonal music? If so, what issue? If not, please consider doing an article on microtonal music. I will be making more of it later on, this year.

- Mr Sarn Richard Ursell

Both very good points Mr Ursell, or may I call you Sarn? Certainly the first would be a huge download, especially if we included all of the DVD/FileSilo downloads to go with it. In the meanwhile, the far more manageable bitesized monthly nuggets (a mere 4-10GB a pop) are available at FileSilo.co.uk. And a microtonal music feature sounds like a job for our very own Dave Clews…

The sound of weed

Dear CM,

I made this noise/drone album from the sounds of smoking weed. It’s about a wizard and his travels. I don’t have a job. Please post about it or tweet or something happy.

- Disbong (disbong.bandcamp.com/releases)