The rest of the tiny music makers series are just as interesting, and a few of them are computer-related sounds you've probably heard before. 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. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. 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.'' And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem - solve it.'' I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. Q: How did you come to compose "The Microsoft Sound''?Ī: The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. Eno describes the process in a 1996 San Francisco Chronicle interview: Did you know that the Windows 95 startup sound was composed by avant-garde electronic musician Brian Eno? I had no idea until I saw it referenced on music thing.
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