Gareth Malone: ‘I’ve arranged music on planes, boats and trains’

The choirmaster says technology has transformed his work and he even auditions singers via Skype and FaceTime

Are you a gadget fiend or a technophobe?

Definitely a gadget fiend. I was a proper nerd as a kid. A spod. I programmed my Amstrad CPC 464 in Basic and built my own number games. My first paid music job was singing in the touring production of Evita, aged 10 - a seminal moment in my life - and from the proceeds I bought a sampler. But because of the Amstrad's memory limitations, you only had one second to play with, so you could only make stuff like the "Ta-ta-ta-take" bit in Respectable by Mel & Kim.

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