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 FaceTimeAre 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 o