damn, i forgot about them
Posted on 04/28/2015 7:17:34 PM PDT by dayglored
When Windows 95 was being developed, Microsoft executives commissioned music legend Brian Eno to develop a "piece of music" to play when the operating system started up. This music would become known as "The Windows Sound." Eno is probably most renowned* for his ambient music -- long tracks with deep sound beds and drifting melodies. But this track had to be a little shorter. Eno related the story:
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, of course, Eno solved the problem, creating a supremely iconic sound. But when you take his micro-music and stretch it out to two and a half minutes, it becomes suspiciously like the music we hear on his ambient albums -- slow, ethereal, moody, beautiful in a very different way...
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Needs a touch of Fripp guitar.
As someone who loves ambient, that was a mindtrip. Thank you for sharing, DG!
damn, i forgot about them
somebody was high...
I assume you're referring to the fact that the great British guitarist, Robert Fripp of King Crimson fame, contributed sounds to the Windows Vista operating system.
Indeed (and you're welcome!). I wonder if one could use some further extension and looping to create a longer (say, 15 minute) meditation piece...
I am SO gonna put that on my CentOS workstation at the office.... bet it'll turn some heads. :-)
It didn’t really bother me much, but I’m hopelessly color blind. But everyone else hated it, and I was trying to break them of logging in with admin when they didn’t really need to.
GMTA. I use the stark "High Contrast" black-and-white themes for the same purpose. LOL.
I think there was a way to do it shown on youtube, you may have to screw around with the registry, normally in the past I would not but in the last 2 years working IT I am more confident with doing regedit.exe.
I was thinking Fripp/Eno from their earlier collaborations.
King Crimson, a staple on my turntable...Islands...great stuff, though hardly anyone knows that one.
Good idea. Really lets you know where you are.
Yeah, kind of a shame since Vista was so unloved. But that's nothing to do with Fripp, of course, how would he know... but it's gotta be unsettling to contribute one's music to something that ended up so reviled later.
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