How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996)

Re:How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996) by anyfactor on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:15PM (#31564957)

I personally feel that the word that most accurately describe the windows 95,98 and XP startup sounds is "cathartic". Specially the slowed down versions.

The closest way to describe my experience of hearing these startup music is like Tom Haverford from parks and rec saying,"A piece of art caused me to have an emotional reaction. Is that normal?"

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Re:How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996) by aasasd on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:47PM (#31565103)

By ‘slowed down’, do you mean this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnoX3E2WFcc ?

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Re:How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996) by 01acheru on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @05:07AM (#31567420)

Sounds like the background music of early SimCity games, at least 3000 had something like this, thanks for sharing!

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Re:How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996) by aasasd on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @07:03AM (#31568146)

In case you're unfamiliar: it's a whole microgenre. However idk what to call it: afaik the more popular slowdown values are 400% and 800%, so ‘slowed down’ together with these can be used as keywords for searching.

E.g. https://youtube.com/watch?v=BFyeuLhjcPY

Slowing down music that was already downtempo gonna result in that ultra-ambient: https://youtube.com/watch?v=b3i06yw4A4E

‘PaulStretch’ software is often used for this, and its algo gives that ethereal quality.

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