Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Tiny Music Makers

Music Thing has started an interesting series on Tiny Music Makers. Artists who have composed familiar corporate sounds. Walter Werzowa had never heard of Intel when they asked him to compose a 3 second jingle for them. He created the Intel Inside sound. Brian Eno created the Microsoft Sound that was first used in Windows 95.

I wonder about the origins of the system sounds found on MacOS and Windows. Who created them? It may be an apocryphal story but I remember hearing that the MacOS System Sound called Eep was voiced by one of the developers. What a claim to fame!