![]() “I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. “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.’ And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, Here’s a specific problem - solve it.’ I’d been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. “The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. What a showboat!Įno explained how this particular job come about in an interview with SF Gate. ![]() If you’re familiar with Eno’s stretched-out ambient epics, it should come as little surprise that he ended up with a piece close to double the intended length. They gave him a long string of adjectives that the sound needed to capture – quite a task considering the original brief was for a piece that only lasted 3.25 seconds. ![]() Surprisingly, it was made by the king of ambient music, Brian Eno, who was tapped by Microsoft’s executives to create this piece of music. Good, hey? Once you listen to it as a composition, it sounds rather complicated.
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