TONT 42623 Windows 95启动音乐小觑

新时代的钟声。

原文链接：https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030908-00/?p=42623

Doo, dudududingggggg…. ding…. ding… ding…

（译注：请自行回忆或查找Windows 95的启动音乐来理解上述拟声词）

In an interview with Joel Selvin at the San Francisco Chronicle, Brian Eno explains.

在《旧金山纪事报》Joel Selvin的一次采访中，Brian Eno做了如下访谈。

Q: How did you come to compose “The Microsoft Sound”?

问：你是怎么想起给《The Microsoft Sound》（译注：Windows 95启动音乐的名称）编曲的？

A: The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I’d been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, “Here’s a specific problem — solve it.”

答：会有这个想法，是因为当时我已经耗尽了创作的点子。那时候，我正在忙着创作自己的音乐有一段时间了，实际上有些失去方向。这时候有个人来跟我说：『现在有个很明确的问题，来解决它吧』是很赞的。

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 1/4 seconds long.”

需求是这样的：『我们想要一小段音乐，要求能鼓舞人心、四海皆准，啦啦～哒、哒、哒♪，积极向上，有未来感，富有感情，令人心动……』一大串形容词，最后还有一句：『时间必须控制在3又1/4秒内。』

I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It’s like making a tiny little jewel.

我觉得试着去作那么短的一首曲实在是有趣，就好像在制作一枚小小的珠宝一样。

In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I’d finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.

实际上，我共创作了84个版本。对于这首短小精悍的音乐，我完全陶醉在创作它的过程中了。我对这则小作品的关心程度是微秒级的，以至于到了走火入魔的程度。等我完成这部分，回到为日常三分钟左右的作品进行编曲时，面对的就像是海水一样多的时间。

The Windows 95 CD contained extra multimedia toss-ins. The ones I remember are a cartoon or two by Bill Plympton, a Weezer music video, and music video of Edie Brickell singing Good Times.

Windows 95的光盘附带了几个多媒体的赠品。我有印象的是那一两个由Bill Plympton创作的卡通动画，一段Weezer的MTV，还有一段Edie Brickell演唱《Good Times》的视频。（译注：Bill Plympton的作品是关于Windows 95品牌宣传的手绘动画，余下的两个大概是用来展示Windows 95多媒体能力的赠品）

For some reason, everybody wanted to know the artist from the Good Times video. Nobody was interested in the artists who did any of the other stuff. (Okay, probably nobody asked about Weezer because, well, that’s the group right there in the filename.)

出于某些原因，很多人都想知道《Good Times》那个视频里歌手的名字，并没有多少人对另外的赠品的创作者感兴趣。（好吧，Weezer的那段没人问，可能是因为文件名里就写着呢。）

Hint: Right-click and select Properties. That will tell you the artist.

给个提示：右键单击文件，选择『属性』，里面就有。

Oh, and the question nobody asked but I’m going to answer it anyway: The composer of the Windows 95 Easter Egg theme is Brian Orr. Here’s his story of how it came to be.

哦对了，还有个问题虽然没人问，但我还是回答一下：Windows 95彩蛋（译注：Windows 95开发人员名单彩蛋，点击此处查看详情）的音乐是Brian Orr创作的。这里有相关的说明。