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Windows 95 sounds4/30/2023 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. Here's the full context from an interview - and also keep in mind that Eno composed the sound on a Mac, saying "I've never used a PC in my life I don't like them." The shortened Eno quote above isn't the full story, though. (You can also listen to the normal-speed version for context.) So listen to it (this is a Windows 95 ad that an enterprising YouTuber slowed way down): 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. 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."Īnd, of course, Eno solved the problem, creating a supremely iconic sound. But this track had to be a little shorter. 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. When Windows 95 was being developed, executives commissioned music legend Brian Eno to develop a "piece of music" to play when the operating system started up.
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