The name linuxforher comes from the song Bells for Her, from the album Under the Pink (1994).
As Tori once explained, "Under the Pink, the way I see it, is if you ripped all our skin off, we’re all pink, and that is what goes on under that."
linuxforher is emotional infrastructure — the unseen layers underneath the systems and services we rely on every day, just like the emotional layers under our own skin.
As a Linux systems administrator, I built this project to explore the Dev side of DevOps — the half I hadn’t yet lived in.
And as a Tori Amos fan, I used something I’ve always loved to guide me through something I didn’t yet understand.
I hope it inspires someone else to do the same.
“I said you don’t need my voice girl, you have your own. But you never thought it was enough of.” — Tori Amos
Eric Rosse, who produced the record, had wanted to really work with the piano more than samplers. He (and John Philip Shenale) completely annihilated this upright and made this beautiful creation out of it. They spent two days detuning and muting it, doing all this stuff to the strings. [Virginian Pilot - July 27, 1994]
Phil Shenale had come out to New Mexico while we were recording Under the Pink to prepare a piano for "Bells for Her." He put nails in it and did all kinds of things to make it. It was an old piano. We just needed an old upright that could be reconstructed. I didn't know what the sound was until we found it. They were also taking silver balls -- those Chinese meditation balls -- and rolling them down the strings of the Böse, then recording that. So we were working with a lot of sound effects that were being generated from a piano. The technical term for this was prepared piano. [A Piano liner notes - 2006]