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In an interview with Joel Selvin at the San Francisco Chronicle, Brian Eno explains<\/a>. <\/p>\n Q: How did you come to compose “The Microsoft Sound”? <\/p>\n A: 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.” <\/p>\n 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.” <\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n 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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Windows 95 CD contained extra multimedia toss-ins. The ones I remember are a cartoon or two by Bill Plympton<\/a>, a Weezer<\/a> music video, and music video of Edie Brickell<\/a> singing Good Times<\/i>. <\/p>\n For some reason, everybody wanted to know the artist from the Good Times<\/i> video. Nobody was interested in the artists who did any of the other stuff. (Okay, probably nobody asked about Weezer because, well, that’s the group right there in the filename.) <\/p>\n Hint: Right-click and select Properties. That will tell you the artist. <\/p>\n Oh, and the question nobody asked but I’m going to answer it anyway: The composer of the Windows 95 Easter Egg theme is Brian Orr<\/a>. Here’s his story of how it came to be<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Doo, dudududingggggg…. ding…. ding… ding… In an interview with Joel Selvin at the San Francisco Chronicle, Brian Eno explains. Q: How did you come to compose “The Microsoft Sound”? A: 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-42623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Doo, dudududingggggg…. ding…. ding… ding… In an interview with Joel Selvin at the San Francisco Chronicle, Brian Eno explains. Q: How did you come to compose “The Microsoft Sound”? A: 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 […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n