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I don’t work for MSFT anymore (I work in Public Broadcasting in the US), so I get no benefit praising Windows. I knew some “ninjas” (that was literally their title) who did low-level kernel work for audio– and they were musicians/audio engineers like me.
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The PC, as of Windows 7, finally was optimized (at the kernel level) for multi-media production and it shows.
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I too used a Mac (Logic) for MANY years for music composition– now I use both. There are some incredibly creative people working there. Oh, and he’s not the only one with great taste in music at Microsoft. How do I know this? I worked at Microsoft from 2006-2014 in the Windows group. He knew Trey Gunn (a bass player for Fripp) in college, and is responsible for all of the cool sounds in Windows. It is true! The gentleman’s name is Steve Ball and he has excellent taste in music. Here’s an acoustic piano version, by Marcin D?browski: Over the years, The Microsoft Sound has inspired cover versions, remixes and more.
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In a 2009 interview, Eno admitted “I wrote it on a Mac, I’ve never used a PC in my life I don’t like them.” Ironically, Eno created the iconic sound on a Mac.
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. The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. In a 1996 interview, Eno explained the origin of The Microsoft Sound: This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.Eno’s work as an ambient pioneer and as a producer (Talking Heads, U2, Devo, Ultravox and others) is what he’s best known for.īut the Windows 95 startup theme, aka The Microsoft Sound, may be his most played work. The most wonderful thing about this sound - other than the fact it has been heard billions of times around the world, most of whom aren’t aware of the tune’s storied composer - is that if you slow it down by 2300%, it sounds a hell of a lot like a Brian Eno song. It’s like catching Mario playing a Sega Mega Drive. Ironically, Eno used a Mac to create the piece, admitting to BBC Radio 4 in 2009 that “I’ve never used a PC in my life I don’t like them.”
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”, he continued. It’s like making a tiny little jewel.”Įno soon became obsessed by this task, creating 84 different pieces of music – the other 83 of which I’d love to see the light of day at some point. “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 3.25 seconds long.’ And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, Here’s a specific problem - solve it.’ “The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. What a showboat!Įno explained how this particular job come about in an interview with SF Gate. If you’re familiar with Eno’s stretched-out ambient epics, it should come as little surprise that he ended up with a piece close to double the intended length. They gave him a long string of adjectives that the sound needed to capture – quite a task considering the original brief was for a piece that only lasted 3.25 seconds. Surprisingly, it was made by the king of ambient music, Brian Eno, who was tapped by Microsoft’s executives to create this piece of music.
Good, hey? Once you listen to it as a composition, it sounds rather complicated.