{"id":6494,"date":"2018-01-26T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2018-01-26T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:25:34","slug":"brian-eno-on-the-beauty-of-constraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/brian-eno-on-the-beauty-of-constraint\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Eno on the beauty of constraint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/default\/article\/Q-and-A-With-Brian-Eno-2979740.php\">weirdly charming account<\/a> of how Brian Eno wrote the 3.25-second Windows 95 startup sound:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I&#8217;d been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a specific problem \u2013 solve it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The thing from the agency said, &#8220;We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,&#8221; this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said &#8220;and it must be 3 1\u20444 seconds long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. <strong>It&#8217;s like making a tiny little jewel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I made eighty-four pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. <strong>I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work<\/strong>. Then when I&#8217;d finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, and he wrote it on a Mac.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NewImage-33.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Eno#The_Microsoft_Sound\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this weirdly charming account of how Brian Eno wrote the 3.25-second Windows 95 startup sound: The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I&#8217;d been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}