[HN Gopher] How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound ... ___________________________________________________________________ How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996) Author : davidbarker Score : 52 points Date : 2022-05-29 12:01 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.sfgate.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.sfgate.com) | Kwpolska wrote: | This is blogspam that largely quotes a 1996 article: | https://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Q-and-A-With-Brian-En... | | They also called some random YouTube video "Brian Eno's remix". | aaron695 wrote: | dang wrote: | Ok, we've changed to that from | https://theindustryobserver.thebrag.com/the-odd-story-of- | how.... Thanks! | ninjanomnom wrote: | The year in the title should be changed to 1996 as well | abraae wrote: | Our EV (a Hyundai Ioniq 5) emits an artifical sound, presumably | to warn pedestrians, which I find interesting. | | It's an attention grabbing electronic hum, swelling, but not | overtly threatening. Sounds something like a well tuned very | resonant transformer. It's also not too annoying to the car | owner. I'd love to know the backstory of how these sounds are | created and what sort of testing goes into it. | | On the same note, the light saber noise from Star Wars was | allegedly inspired by an idle video projector. | | "Immediately something went off in my mind and I had a feeling | for what they would sound like," Burtt said. "In the booth where | we projected the films, those projectors made a hum...the motors | would sit there with this magical, mysterious humming sound... I | thought 'that's probably what a lightsaber would sound like.'" | h-w wrote: | I always love Eno's description of the spec for this job: | | "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.'" | isopede wrote: | Everything I know about Brian Eno has come from the New York | Times crossword. | ggm wrote: | And Wall-E wakes up to (basically) the same sound Apple promoted | in the quadra in 91 | | The stones got $3m for "start me up" | | I do like Brian Eno, and I like how much thought he put into 3 | seconds in everyone's life worldwide. Possibly the most played | tune worldwide? (or is that the Nokia ringtone?) | ghostly_s wrote: | Having been a Mac user in that era, this was actually totally | unfamiliar to me. I was expecting the very similar, but much | worse, XP startup chime. | | I realize it's just a puffy little piece but I always get annoyed | when writers ignore or are simply unaware of Eno's early career | creating (excellent) work in shockingly conventional pop-song | formats. | candiddevmike wrote: | Brian Eno's ambient work is incredible. I grew up on An Ending | (Ascent) and the rest of Apollo thanks to 28 days later, and | still find it serene. | Romanulus wrote: | cpeterso wrote: | Here's the startup sound slowed down from 3.25 seconds to 4 | minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnoX3E2WFcc | csnover wrote: | The podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz recently did an two-part series | on all of the Windows startup sounds, where they talk about the | Windows 95 sound, including interviews with some of the folks | that actually worked on them[0][1]. | | [0] https://www.20k.org/episodes/tadaitswindows | | [1] https://www.20k.org/episodes/windowslogonwav | deputy wrote: | pvg marked 31548445 year. | | pvg edited the year from 2021 to 1996 | | New title: How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound | (1996). | layer8 wrote: | Windows should have had a booting track, like home computer games | had a loading track. E.g. https://youtu.be/iOHRVbWWfc4 | bombcar wrote: | Some systems (game consoles?) the music/sound chip is entirely | a separate processor so you can load sound/midi into it at the | beginning to play during load. | turminal wrote: | It should have release songs, like openbsd | cpach wrote: | How about this: https://youtu.be/lAkuJXGldrM | ntoskrnl wrote: | Windows 95 did have a release song, in a way. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtfBBNYdcPc ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-30 23:00 UTC)