| Label: |
Microsoft
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| Catalog#: |
none
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| Format: |
File, WAV
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| Country: | US |
| Released: | 1995 |
| Genre: |
Electronic
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| Style: |
Ambient
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| Notes: | The start-up sound for Microsoft Windows 95
Joel Selvin, Chronicle pop music critic
Q: How did you come to compose "The Microsoft Sound"?
Brian Eno
A: The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas.
I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem - solve it."
The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long."
I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel.
In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.
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