Month: May 2013

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Sound logos

Sound logos for various things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_trademark

Intel.Inside

NBC http://web.archive.org/web/20070307110031/http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/soundex/72349496.mp3

AT&T  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203718504577182951405815364.html

THX deep note:

http://youtu.be/eBlD2N_AwgI

Nokia tune http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_tune

Mac startup sounds:

http://youtu.be/xNgl_MjbAsM

Massive index of boot sounds:

http://titan08.free.fr/Boot%20Sounds/

Royalty Free Audio Logos: http://www.premiumbeat.com/royalty_free_music/audio-logos

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The Microsoft Sound

At Brian Eno’s Wikipedia page:

The Microsoft Sound

In 1994, Microsoft corporation designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Brian Eno to compose music for the Windows 95 project. The result was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, The Microsoft Sound. In an interview with Joel Selvin in the San Francisco Chronicle he said:

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 31/4 seconds long.”[† 1]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 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.[27]

Eno shed further light on the composition of the sound on the BBC Radio 4 show The Museum of Curiosity, explaining that he created it using an Apple Mac computer, and stating “I wrote it on a Mac. I’ve never used a PC in my life; I don’t like them”.[28]