Brian Eno - Microsoft Windows Theme

The Microsoft Sound composed by Brian Eno.

In 1994 Microsoft corporation designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Brian Eno to compose music for the Windows 95 project. The result was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, The Microsoft Sound (.wav). In the San Francisco Chronicle he said:

"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 31/4 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.

As a guest on the The Museum of Curiosity radio show, Eno stated that the list of adjectives, which included "sexy", comprised "about one-hundred and fifty adjectives" and that the music was to be no more than "3.8 seconds" long.

(Text taken from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno)

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[zkfoster]

LOVE how he is using a MacBook at the end of the clip XD

[KSX387]

He made this on Mac, he said in an interview.

[migloje]

probobly the best startup tune of all times :)

[Lalli1987]

This is the best tune Windows ever had. Now I now who needs to be praised for it...

[drkam6]

@gweimer Fripp did the one for Vista...

[gweimer]

@0BatGirl0 - I believe the new start up was written by Robert Fripp.

[RH31000]

@zkfoster is that how he writes all his music in Logic Pro?

[DrGonzoOBoogie]

what has Brian Eno not done, the guy is the man

[0BatGirl0]

This is better than the current start up sound.

[GLaDOSv4]

Quite from Eno himself:

"I wrote it on a Mac. I’ve never used a PC in my life; I don’t like them.”

=Every musician born after 1990