Brian Eno on the design specs for the Windows 95 startup chime:pic.twitter.com/a2mFs0PQVE
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"We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah... futuristic, sentimental, emotional...& it must be 3 1/4 secs long"
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Great artists can also produce to spec!
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That’s what so crazy - he actually met the spec!
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How about Win98 with “We need another 3.5 seconds that sounds just like that Eno crap but doesn’t cost shit.”
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Great exercise for programming, too (analogously). http://aosabook.org/en/index.html should do a sequel to 500-lines with half the space budget.
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It ended up sounding very much like the CBC Network chime...
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