Whats this about Eno doing The Microsoft® Sound ?
The Microsoft® Sound was the boong-bliiing-tink-tink-tink sound-bite heard when Microsoft® Windows 95 starts up, and often when a Microsoft® Office 97 CD is inserted. In an interview with Joel Selvin of the San Francisco Chronicle, Eno®© explained: “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.’ 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 3¼ seconds long.’ 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. In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitiv
