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Alvin and the Chipmunks is a five-time Grammy Award-winning animated music group, created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing chipmunks: Alvin , the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group, Simon , the tall bespectacled intellectual, and Theodore , the chubby, impressionable sweetheart. The trio is "managed" by their human "father" and confidant, David Seville. In reality, David Seville was Bagdasarian's stage name, and the Chipmunks themselves are named after the executives of their original record label, Liberty Records: Alvin Bennett (the president), Simon Waronker (the founder and owner), and Theodore...

The most important members of Blue Chip Orchestra were the Austrian musicians Hubert Bognermayr and Harald Zuschrader. Their 1988 debut album instantly gained international acclaim. Hubert Bognermayr was the founder of the Blue Chip Orchestra, as well as its project designer, engineer and Fairlight computer specialist. A pioneer of computer-acoustic music, Bognermayr programed and played synthesizers and samplers, and create sound treatments. In the 1970's he was the head of the famous Austrian Symphonic Rock Group Eela Craig and, together with Ulrich Rutzel (President of Erdenklang Records and producer of Blue Chip Orchestra), founded The Ars Electronica festival for electronic...