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Leland Scott
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Arlington, VA USA
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Martians are born with an intense appreciation for music — good music, of all kinds. A few of them try writing a tune or two themselves, mostly in English. And so it has been with Leland.
Leland Scott wrote songs for 20 years, then married and had two sons. Like most Martians, Mr. Scott dabbled in numerous technical and artistic fields. Over time he became a programmer, then an HTML/JavaScript guru, then a web designer, then a writer, then a graphic artist, then a Mac themer, then a Cocoa coder.
He briefly started a small business as a disk jockey in 1983-84, which is where he met his destined wife, Jackie. In the mid-1990s, Leland designed and managed the new Citibank Intranet (CitiWeb), moved on to manage the White House website, then the National Science Foundation website.
In 2001, he designed and programmed an online store (Classic 45s) to support his ongoing addiction to 45 rpm vinyl records. In 2005, Leland started a blog, appropriately named Musings from Mars (http://www.musingsfrommars.org). In 2008, he began work on a theme for Mac OS X called Crystal Clear, which he ultimately released as shareware in April 2010 under the name CrystalClear Interface (http://crystalclear.musingsfrommars.org). In April 2011, he released a second shareware theme, Crystal Black (http://crystalclear.musingsfrommars.org/crystalblack/).
In 2010, Mr. Scott sent us some cassette recordings he made during 1978-2000, and we recently finished digitizing them. These recordings are far from polished, but many of them are clearly "diamonds in the rough." Leland is a songwriter rather than a performer, and the rough nature of these demos make this clear. Still, it's surprising how well received they've been back home, and Scott tells us he is surprised by how much good material there was — 7 albums worth, as it turns out.
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