“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.
