Windows Startup Sounds slowed 4000%; turns into ambient music

[PhilipB]

https://soundcloud.com/ideoforms/sets/windows-startup-sounds-slowed-4000

It is twenty years since the birth of Windows 95, released to the world on August 24, 1995. With the widening availability of SoundBlaster sound cards in the mid-90s, the sonic experience of the operating system became a key issue for the first time. Microsoft acknowledged this fact by commissioning Brian Eno to compose a short signature sound for Windows 95. Latterly known as "The Microsoft Sound", the brief was to evoke a utopian sense of optimism and futurism, chiming with Microsoft's vision of Windows 95 as the OS of the future. Eno describes the experience as "like making a tiny little jewel".

In homage, I've made a series of extended edits that hold a microscope up to these jewel-like sounds. Six Windows startup tones, from 95 to Vista, are slowed to 4000% of their original speed, transforming each into an ambient piece of several minutes' duration, and amplifying the internal structures of these iconic, dream-like sounds.

http://www.erase.net/weblog/2015-08/windows-startup-sounds-slowed-4000

 

[ScumBob]

It makes me want to dive into an ocean that will lead me to Heaven.

 

[CakeCup]

I feel like I'm entering a dream..it's ART!

 

[E.V.I.L]

I wonder what the dialup sounds like 4000% slower.

But seriously, the startup themes for Windows 95, 98, and XP sound majestic at their normal speeds.. not shocked that this one is one of the few that doesn't sound creepy.

 

[PinkPearl]

This is the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time, and it actually sounds really good. It really brings me back.

 

[Krystalite]

I'm sorry, but this sounds way too bland! I would like to see all of the startup sounds mixed together as a symphony next.

 

[BeanoSponge]

Sounds great!

 

[PhilipB]

I'm sorry, but this sounds way too bland! I would like to see all of the startup sounds mixed together as a symphony next.

It's supposed to be 'bland' - well, sort of. It's called ambient music.

 

[Krystalite]

It's supposed to be 'bland' - well, sort of. It's called ambient music.

Still, I think it sounds pretty bland.

 

[hfjs]

That was truly beautiful, i'm not even joking

ESPECIALLY 2000 MAN

 

[Fred Mercury]

THE MICROSOFT SOUND, I LOVE THE MICROSOFT SOUND (WINDOWS 95 STARTUP SOUND)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[hfjs]

I would like to see all of the startup sounds mixed together as a symphony next.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7w0ELJF70lg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ml_eZPDEEms