[HN Gopher] Canyon.mid
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Canyon.mid
Author : 1_player
Score : 391 points
Date : 2021-10-06 23:20 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| ChrisClark wrote:
| I've used this as my ringtone for several years now. I think it's
| perfect for it. And I just love the memories it brings.
| mike_hock wrote:
| Booting the old Windows 3.11 box just to listen to canyon.mid,
| then shutting it down again.
| samplatt wrote:
| The soundtrack to level 1 of Chips Challenge.
| protean wrote:
| Canyon is good, but Passport.mid is the superior Windows midi
| file...
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9BtuPpW9w
| acheron wrote:
| Ah yes.
|
| Another one I remember well that apparently was more obscure
| than I realized is ISLAND.MID. It's the last one in this video:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ome3vfadYvs&t=586s
| znpy wrote:
| I haven't heard this music in about twenty years!
|
| I first heard that in an english-course CD-rom and always
| thought it belonged to that course and was thus lost forever!
|
| Thank you for letting me re-discover this thing!!!
| protean wrote:
| Amazing! Love the feeling of rediscovery and reawakening of
| some long dormant neural pathways brought about by hearing a
| forgotten piece of music
| madjam002 wrote:
| Let's not forget about onestop.mid
| flatiron wrote:
| The king of all prebuilt windows midis!
| pram wrote:
| Agreed, wouldn't have been out of place in a Maxis game.
| Aeolun wrote:
| I didn't know how much I wanted to hear and see this. Much
| nostalgia.
|
| It suddenly occurs to me that I always thought I missed the most
| interesting times in computer history, but I actually experienced
| the majority of major changes (about DOS onwards).
| kube-system wrote:
| I can immediately tell that this was not recorded with the same
| midi synth as my old win 95 PC.
| zedr wrote:
| I had this for years a my default ring tone.
| cbm-vic-20 wrote:
| Clint "LGR" Basinger collects 90s-era MIDI gear, and made a video
| of his stack playing this track.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMSdaPTuV8E
| plucas wrote:
| I encourage you to read the first sentence of QuadrupleA's
| comment to this post in LGR's voice.
| ckozlowski wrote:
| I took you up on your suggestion and found it quite
| satisfying. =)
| thombles wrote:
| Hah most PCs I used of that era would have complained about a
| non-bootable disk being in drive A: :)
| shp0ngle wrote:
| In the 90s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers were
| MacOS and Windows.
|
| In the 2020s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers are
| MacOS and Windows.
|
| (However, to be fair, all the rage is now in phones, where
| Windows is surprisingly non-existent. Apple's OS is still the
| other one, though.)
| einr wrote:
| _In the 90s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers were
| MacOS and Windows._
|
| There were at least real, meaningful attempts at competition in
| the consumer space with, most notably, OS/2 and BeOS. (OS/2 is
| seen as a commercial failure these days but quite a lot of
| people ran it.) MS-DOS from Microsoft was also competing with
| IBM PC DOS and Digital Research/Novell DR-DOS.
|
| In the early 90s, Atari TOS, RISC OS and AmigaOS were not
| completely down for the count yet.
|
| In the UNIX workstation market you still had SGI IRIX, Solaris,
| HP/UX, and more.
|
| Now, looking even in that space -- well, _maybe_ there 's a
| Linux box or two, but more likely you're going to find even
| more macOS and Windows.
| nebula8804 wrote:
| Its all because RMS decided to eat that thing from his foot
| that one time. The world just couldn't stomach GNU/Linux after
| that. :P
| shp0ngle wrote:
| Isn't Android technically GNU/Linux?
|
| It has Linux kernel, but I am not sure about the GNU.
| hansel_der wrote:
| the average phone has software with virtually every
| existing oss-license within and noone cares.
| scorxn wrote:
| Oh goodness, the nostalgia chills. Now to find In the Hall of the
| Mountain King.
| brassattax wrote:
| If you want the full experience:
|
| https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox
|
| Wait for it to boot, Start > Run, type mplayer File > Open,
| click In the Hall of the Mountain King.mid
|
| :)
| bitwize wrote:
| It just didn't get more Windows than Canyon.mid. 90s corporate
| Memphis in musical form, the kind of thing you'd hear over a 3D
| computer animation -- or opening a corporate training video. Its
| full title was "A Trip Through the Grand Canyon" or similar; no
| surprise, that was also the subject of many a 3D computer
| animation back in the day.
| rzzzt wrote:
| PASSPORT.MID is pretty cool, too.
| bitwize wrote:
| Oh, Passport was the tits. It had a little funk in it at
| least.
| rcarmo wrote:
| Interesting to think that playing MIDI without any additional
| software is no longer a feature you can get out of the box these
| days (at least on macOS, YMMV).
| raverbashing wrote:
| True. Because: the sounds cards of the time had the midi synth
| right there on the card (ok, not the full midi decoding, but
| they had the OPL3 synth onboard). Later models (SB32 IIRC)
| could decode the midi commands themselves.
|
| Today it's easier to do it in software.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| If you like that song you will like this video.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMSdaPTuV8E
| anotheraccount9 wrote:
| Windows 3.11 on a Tandy 1000... that's a hack right there
| (http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html#III.C.1) ;)
| bitwize wrote:
| The irony is, Windows was developed on Tandy hardware. Because
| it had more CPU and graphics oomph than any IBM offering up
| through the AT, Microsoft developed Windows 1.0 on the Tandy
| 2000 and shipped it with drivers for the PC. A driver disk for
| the 2000 itself was available.
| riq_ wrote:
| It seems to be a Tandy 1000 RSX which supports Windows 3.1
|
| Original photo is from here, which has Windows 3.1 running:
| http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/RLRLX.html
| einr wrote:
| It's a 386SX, which absolutely will run Windows 3.1 but if
| you're going to be real picky, it definitely won't be as
| snappy as in the video ;)
| FreeFull wrote:
| Question is, would you be able to put a Soundblaster 16
| inside it?
| throwaway09223 wrote:
| Tandy 3-voice can play midi without an add on card.
| boondaburrah wrote:
| Right but I know Yamaha OPL sound when I hear it.
| einr wrote:
| The Tandy 1000 RSX has several ISA expansion slots.
| Putting a Sound Blaster in it is no problem.
| jeffrallen wrote:
| I miss Axel F mod files.
| benschulz wrote:
| I don't know that artist in particular, but perhaps you can
| find them on The Mod Archive?
|
| https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=search&query=axel+f...
| crtasm wrote:
| Axel F is the theme tune from 80s film Beverly Hills Cop
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E93VEydSRM
|
| mod archive is a great site!
| jonplackett wrote:
| Man I feel old knowing I was alive early enough to have found
| that midi file amazing.
| mproud wrote:
| LGR would approve.
| qwerty456127 wrote:
| I miss Windows 3.11 so much. It was so much more clean and
| intuitive than today Windows...
| mattowen_uk wrote:
| I thought that a while ago... So much so, that I wrote a Proof
| of Concept 'Program Manager' for Windows 10 that re-imagined my
| current Start Menu in a Windows 3.1 style.
|
| Oh. My. God. The whole paradigm falls down when you've got so
| many folders full of apps. I don't know how to solve it.
|
| It worked well back in the day though when most people only had
| a handful of apps (that we used to call 'software') installed.
| FeepingCreature wrote:
| A few years ago I was playing with Karplus-Strong synthesis, and
| I decided to dump canyon.mid into it. Note that there's no drums,
| I just dumped every note into the synthesizer. Also I think there
| were some numeric bugs with my code.
|
| I kind of like this version anyways though
| https://soundcloud.com/feepingcreature-1/canyonmid-on-a-brok...
| willcipriano wrote:
| Wow, I haven't heard this in twenty years or so. I think I found
| it searching through the windows folder pre-internet looking for
| something to do.
| jamiewildehk wrote:
| I remember playing this on my Gravis Ultrasound and trying to
| convince my friends it sounded better.
| (https://youtu.be/Q3rb5Yi0BBI)
| bloopernova wrote:
| Gravis Ultrasound playing TIE Fighter music is the pinnacle of
| game music for me.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| I don't think I ever listened to this on a computer with a good
| sound card. I don't remember it ever sounding so good.
| [deleted]
| ipunchghosts wrote:
| Sounds like something Vulfpeck should cover.
| enneff wrote:
| This reinterpretation of the song is really amazing
| https://youtu.be/bjWFNgKE4uw
| droidist2 wrote:
| Very cool, the beginning has a Weather Report - Birdland vibe
| to it.
| Lorin wrote:
| Didn't even have to click through it to predict that it'd be
| Jake Kaufman's take on it - although he's now known for Shantae
| and Shovel Knight among other things :)
| themodelplumber wrote:
| Love it. virt also did a little tune called "here's your seven
| day forecast" that's also from that era and really nice, like a
| stereotypical weather channel tune.
| dvtrn wrote:
| Speaking of those classic weather channel vibes:
| https://m.twitch.tv/retroweatherchannel
| Underphil wrote:
| I also did one a while back if anyone is interested.
|
| https://youtu.be/s_XYWwCu8vM
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| Now you're just showing off playing all the instruments. :-D
| :horns:
| dylan604 wrote:
| i like the wardrobe change between instruments. did he just
| get too tired to play the other 2 tracks on the same day,
| or did the mrs. need the honey-do list before he could get
| back to it, or just changed shirts to make it seem like it
| was so time consuming it required multiple days in the
| studio
| Underphil wrote:
| Hehe. It's because I'm incapable of finishing a project
| in any reasonable timeframe. There might have been six
| months between takes for all I know.
| cormacrelf wrote:
| Man. I remember making little mids on a flip phone in the
| 2000s. When you're playing with the silly toots and beeps you
| imagine them so much bigger. These covers are how it sounds
| in your head when you're writing one.
| Underphil wrote:
| That's honestly why I do them. To make the sound that 10
| year old me actually heard when listening.
| Infernal wrote:
| You just triggered a memory for me that I probably haven't
| thought of in 15 years, but I recall circa 2003 sitting
| down with my Motorola bar phone and my electric guitar and
| programming it note by note (with the keypad!) to play a
| few seconds of Enter Sandman as my ringtone.
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| This almost makes me cry. I forgot all about it.
| smolder wrote:
| My favorite old midi file is this one. It's playable in winamp or
| any other thing with a default wavetable for midi synth. It was
| the background music for an NES puzzle game, transcribed to midi.
|
| https://www.khinsider.com/midi/nes/pipe-dream
| mrblampo wrote:
| Thanks for sharing this! My sister and I used to love listening
| to this song on our Gateway 2000 when we were kids.
| littlebentoo wrote:
| > listening to this song
|
| Song? It's just music there's no singing in it. Midi is an
| instrumental only declarative format.
| underwater wrote:
| How am I only just learning that a a piece of music is only a
| song if it has vocals? Even the name makes that obvious.
| frogulis wrote:
| Calling instrumental pieces "songs" does exist in real-life
| common usage even if it's not "technically" correct. After
| all, the ancestor post did just that.
|
| Depends how prescriptive you want to be.
| mkl wrote:
| A classical music lecture series I listened to [1]
| claimed this came about because that's what iTunes calls
| all tracks/pieces/songs. Seems plausible, but probably
| other MP3 players did the same thing too.
|
| [1] Sorry, no link, don't remember what exactly it was.
| markshead wrote:
| Felix Mendelssohn wrote a collection of pieces called Songs
| without Words for the piano. This might suggest that the
| term "song" can be more nuanced than simply whether or not
| there are vocals.
| rob74 wrote:
| The original German title is "Lieder ohne Worte"
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_Without_Words), and
| there is AFAIK no strict requirement for lyrics to count
| as a "Lied" (or at least "Lied" is not connected to
| "singen" the way "song" is connected to "sing").
| jay-anderson wrote:
| I've sung or hummed along to canyon.mid a time or two. We're
| good. The meaning of the word 'song' has expanded in popular
| usage. I play the horn (french horn) and I smile an nod when
| someone calls a clarinet a horn.
| GaylordTuring wrote:
| > Midi is an instrumental only declarative format.
|
| There's nothing stopping you from using midi data to generate
| singing: https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87
| mrblampo wrote:
| Here's a much weirder example of using midi data to
| generate singing: https://youtu.be/ZY6h3pKqYI0
| smcl wrote:
| Here's another nice example of this -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlhKaxcKpA
| BoxOfRain wrote:
| This is absolutely terrifying and I hate it.
| Congratulations to the author, it's very interesting!
| bartvk wrote:
| That is low-key terrifying. And amazing, too.
| TheOtherHobbes wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-Q_transform
| pjbeam wrote:
| Since when does a song require singing..?
| Biganon wrote:
| It's literally in the name
| mekkkkkk wrote:
| Words can expand from their original meanings, you know.
| Look at any music player or just everyday speech, you'll
| see "song" being used to refer to a discrete unit of
| music in the same way you could use "track" or "tune".
| Biganon wrote:
| Maybe, but we can still protest against changes when they
| are silly. Nobody in French would call Debussy's Clair de
| Lune "une chanson", why should the English language be
| oversimplified? Also, good music players use the word
| "track", and one song (or other musical piece) can span
| over multiple tracks, e.g. Pink Floyd's Atom Heart
| Mother.
| mekkkkkk wrote:
| It's not about simplification, it's just the way language
| works and evolves. Like how "track" originally referred
| to the literal engraved track on a phonograph record, yet
| you claim that that's obviously the correct term for a
| musical piece. At one point someone argued like you do
| now about that word.
| mrblampo wrote:
| Boooo.
| littlebentoo wrote:
| What does that mean?
| mrblampo wrote:
| Sorry, I may have been making unfair assumptions about
| your intent with your comment about the definition of
| "song." Let's assume that you are just eager to help me
| understand proper usage of the term. Thank you for
| pointing this out. I'm aware of the distinction, but was
| making a choice to ignore it, because I think most people
| ignore it. And when I was a kid playing around with
| Windows 3.1 I definitely would have called it a song.
| adamredwoods wrote:
| I had an Iomega Zip drive, too! So cool, but the higher
| capacities were too expensive and the parallel adapter didn't
| work everywhere. I forget if there were compatible discs, not
| made by Iomega, that were cheaper?
| EVdotIO wrote:
| I don't know about cheaper, but Fuji, HP and photography
| related companies made disks. Completely unrelated, but the
| SCSI versions made them pretty much plug and play with tons of
| hardware. There is an old Roland sampler I have made in '88
| that uses one, and Zip disks leave floppies completely in the
| dust. It's truly night and day on every level.
| batman-farts wrote:
| The rural K-8 elementary school I attended had a lab full of
| Mac LCIIs up through early 2000, and chose to buy a bunch of
| Zip drives and use them as external dedicated storage
| upgrades. I don't think I ever saw anybody use them for data
| transfer, just storing stuff like Mario Teaches Typing and
| DinoPark Tycoon. Us kids were specifically instructed to
| never try to eject the Zip disks.
|
| Right after I graduated, they found the budget to upgrade to
| blueberry iMacs. The superintendent/principal was also the
| only person I ever saw using a G4 Cube in the wild; that
| Apple salesperson must have done a hell of a job. One of the
| office secretaries had one of the education-market-only beige
| all-in-one Power Mac G3s too.
|
| I believe sometime in the mid-2000s, they moved on to a
| contract with Dell like everybody else. I guess the iPad era
| has seen Apple regain some education market share, but they
| used to absolutely dominate schools.
| Kadin wrote:
| Yes, Iomega eventually licensed disk production to a few other
| companies. I know for sure that Maxell and Verbatim made them,
| and Wikipedia says that Toshiba, Fuji, Epson and NEC also
| produced some.
|
| When they were originally released, I believe the first model
| was SCSI-only and cost $199. Disks were $20 each and held
| 100MB. Eventually the price of disks dropped a bit, until they
| were around $11 or so in multipacks the last time I bought any.
|
| They also had backwards compatible 250 and 750 MB drives, but I
| don't know how well they ever sold. I never saw either in
| person. I think by the time they hit the market CD-R drives and
| media had dropped in price so much that Zip disks weren't
| economical as either a backup or file-transfer media.
| boondaburrah wrote:
| That and the later drives were made cheaper and click-of-
| death was beginning to become an issue. My 100MB SCSI drive
| still works and reads the old Maxell disks no problem though.
| gfosco wrote:
| I think there were indeed some 3rd-party zip disks. I had
| several drives, thought they were really cool at the time.
| codazoda wrote:
| Ah, my first tech job. It was an amazing ride going from a few
| hundred thousand dollars to a two billion dollar company. I
| bailed when things started to tank.
| cjbprime wrote:
| There was a puzzle in the MIT Mystery Hunt a few years ago
| where teams were given a physical Zip disk (amongst other
| outdated tech) and had to figure out how to read its contents
| :)
| gchucky wrote:
| There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had
| to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would
| play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler
| time...
|
| [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-
| egg... [2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds
| subroutine wrote:
| "Creative Labs Sound Blaster"... ah the nostalgia
| mrleinad wrote:
| I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to
| do things like these.
| drKarl wrote:
| I think nowadays an easter egg would be a hard sell on a Pull
| Request...
|
| Most likely back then there were absolutely no code
| reviews...
| mbg721 wrote:
| Life-insurance mainframes never had easter-eggs, did they?
| This is just a measure of how seriously people rely on
| software.
| all2 wrote:
| Wrong. :)
|
| My dad worked for a rather large insurance company. One of
| the hacks printed the user's name, marched it around the
| border of the terminal (thin client to the mainframe) and
| then deleted itself before giving the user their prompt
| back.
| mbg721 wrote:
| I stand corrected. At least it wasn't the policyholder's
| name.
| xattt wrote:
| I'd love to see if Philips of Zoll integrated any Easter
| eggs into their AEDs or monitoring equipment.
|
| Perhaps get an extra 50 joules of defib by putting in the
| Konami code on the directional keys.
| tomc1985 wrote:
| You can thank the need to appeal to the 'serious business'
| people for that
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| Windows XP has no easter eggs because MS wanted to sell it
| to the US military, and the policy was, no undocumented
| features.
|
| I suppose they could also just document it...
| [deleted]
| Eikon wrote:
| Except that it increases software complexity, possibly bugs
| as well as security vulnerabilities.
|
| I definitely don't won't this kind of "features" in software
| I use.
| mhd wrote:
| Happy developers are engaged and make fewer errors.
| neuronic wrote:
| Yep worked for a pretty large company and they had a
| (capable), high ranking dev guy who was prone to add easter
| eggs in the UI. Konami code would cause something to fly
| across the screen etc. The live product was taken down
| twice due to these easter eggs.
|
| There are no more easter eggs.
| stavros wrote:
| How did the eggs cause the product to go down?
| Aeolun wrote:
| Sad times. If you never accidentally trigger these then
| who cares...
| floam wrote:
| I don't won't you
| savolai wrote:
| I really appreciate the wuality of discussion here. Every
| time.
| fouric wrote:
| The amount of complexity, bugs, and security
| vulnerabilities in modern software is _already_ at a
| staggering level purely due to non-easter-eggs. Not only
| will allowing the developers to occasionally have some fun
| help them to be more engaged (and produce higher-quality
| software as a result), but a well-implemented easter egg
| touches a highly localized portion of the system and won 't
| introduce any of the above in the first place.
| black3r wrote:
| I miss the good times when security wasn't an important
| thing to always keep in mind because there weren't that
| many hackers and script kiddies.
| hansel_der wrote:
| sad story bro
| CyberRabbi wrote:
| They weren't given the freedom. They took the freedom.
| xiamx wrote:
| I think it would've been even more immersive if the screen was
| warped to cover the CRT
| mPReDiToR wrote:
| On that theme, have you tried cool-retro-term?
|
| It's nostalgic.
| tiagok wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPkwIn5W0IE&t=8s
| petercooper wrote:
| Since we're all reminiscing here, let me throw in Michael
| Walthius's _Echoes_ from 1994 which totally dragged me deep into
| the MIDI collecting world:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQyhRd0Wsew
| willismichael wrote:
| Ha! Michael Walthius was one of my primary inspirations when I
| was trying to make my own midi arrangements. I was just a kid
| trying to self-teach music theory and composition.
| bambax wrote:
| Story of the song is here:
| http://vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Trip_Through_the_Grand_Canyo...
| lproven wrote:
| A decade or so back I got to take a tour of London's Italian
| Quarter. It's mostly gone now but fragments still exist, like the
| Chiappa mechanical-organ factory:
| https://www.facebook.com/chiappalimited
|
| It would be an amazingly cool hack to adapt a pipe-organ to play
| Midi tracks off a USB key.
|
| Or, the flipside, to design a machine that could print pipe-organ
| rolls from MIDI tracks.
| Majromax wrote:
| For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQHdFAm7g7E --
| controlling a pipe organ via MIDI
| QuadrupleA wrote:
| Ah, the many eras of corporate music. Canyon.mid exemplifies the
| late 80s / early 90s aesthetic - gets me fired up to optimize my
| multimedia strategy.
|
| The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with
| muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage
| and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty
| ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh"
| vocal hook.
|
| What creative bounties will the coming decades bring?
| pedrow wrote:
| In the old days you had to sing the corporate song yourself,
| e.g. Ever Onward I.B.M.[0]
|
| [0]:
| https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/everonward_trans....
| fsckboy wrote:
| Ever Onward IBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oh3gqOEKU
| sneak wrote:
| https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-
| cards/2/1...
| WesolyKubeczek wrote:
| Isn't the ukulele thing straight from Israel Kamakawiwo`ole's
| take on "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", or a bleak imitation
| thereof?
|
| I want my 60s-70s orchestral muzak back. Complete with grainy
| 24fps footage of sunny cities with enormous futuristic-looking
| business centers and viaducts, successful-looking smiling
| people riding those ginormous cars to work. Keith Mansfield,
| David Lindup, Alan Hawkshaw. Big names of library music.
|
| The synthwave era in comparison sounds somewhat decadent. But I
| like it too.
| motogpjimbo wrote:
| For anyone interested in this genre, there is a very large
| collection of 60s/70s library music available on Spotify.
| Searching for "KPM 1000" will get you started.
|
| There is also a documentary on the subject:
|
| https://www.amazon.co.uk/Library-Music-Film-Shawn-
| Lee/dp/B08...
| taylorfinley wrote:
| In answer to your closing rhetorical, I'd like the throw a
| curveball: Corporate Businesswave, the genre of truly creative
| artists riffing on soulless corporate jingle culture. Plenty of
| 80s/90s aesthetic to go around here. I personally love "Money
| Can Buy Happiness" and "Mark to Market" by New Century, "Pump
| and Dump" by Shadow and Mirrors, and "Insider Trading" by
| Michael Weber.
|
| A good jumping-off point:
| https://open.spotify.com/playlist/39pqsBTsb9UNYv1dXbZpff?si=...
| kfarr wrote:
| Thanks for sharing, favorite so far is also "Money Can Buy
| Happiness".
|
| The song would be perfectly at home in the GTA Vice City
| soundtrack including lyrics like: "More is more and less is
| less, money can buy happiness" "Life can be so effortless,
| money can buy happiness"
| IggleSniggle wrote:
| Thank you for this!
| huskyr wrote:
| Probably the most famous example of this genre is James
| Ferraro's "Far Side Virtual", which can be listened to in its
| entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd-uSm8ittU
| tgv wrote:
| The infinite four chord inspiration sound is quite dreadful
| (shame on you, Hans Zimmer), but I do hope we never revert to
| the times of KPMG, we're strong as can be:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCvKXgp-Awo. If you haven't
| heard it, first prepare some ear bleach before you click.
| robin_reala wrote:
| How about the Capgemini rap?
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCnDVHzqv4
| liotier wrote:
| I actually quite like the KPMG anthem's jungle remix:
| https://soundcloud.com/joey-devilla/the-kpmg-song-jungle-
| sty...
| lathiat wrote:
| When I think four chord song I think of Axis Of Awesome :)
|
| Medley of a bunch of pop songs on the premise they all use
| the same 4 chords.
|
| https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I
| splatzone wrote:
| Relevant Tantacrul video about the current era of corporate
| music: https://youtu.be/AIxY_Y9TGWI
| pnut wrote:
| Obligatory post http://datassette.net/businessfunk/
| libele wrote:
| it's incredible the number of things you can do with eggs
| headmelted wrote:
| Gets me fired up to jump over a dolphin. Weird.
|
| https://youtu.be/q26aQKRjebI
| jim-jim-jim wrote:
| I feel like there was at least one additional generation of
| corporate muzak between these two movements, but I am slightly
| too young to really put words to it. I remember bank and tech
| commercials being full of xylophones and marimbas around the
| turn of the century. Think the soundtrack to _American Beauty_.
| James Ferraro 's _Far Side Virtual_ definitely touches upon it
| too.
| _nickwhite wrote:
| If I ever start my own company with a real phone system, I'm
| putting canyon.mid as the on hold music. How cool would that be?
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| _" Please hold, your call is important to us!"_
| _nickwhite wrote:
| Gen X-ers and Older Millennials will request to be put on
| hold again just to jam out to that Windows 3.1 nostalgia.
| geocrasher wrote:
| I learned the other day that there's an in-between called
| Xennials.
| krinchan wrote:
| > Older Millennials
|
| Bloomberg has dubbed us Geriatric Millennials now. I'm
| sorry you missed the memo.
| tomc1985 wrote:
| Elder Millennials!
| [deleted]
| dylan604 wrote:
| What is a company phone system? You mean, you're going to write
| a bot that plays music while gathering information? /s
| password4321 wrote:
| _The PCjs machine below starts Microsoft Windows 3.10, using an
| IBM PC AT running PC DOS 3.30._
|
| https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/
|
| I couldn't get Media Player to start, I guess they don't have the
| sound card implemented / wired up. But they do have Visual Basic
| 1!
| twoodfin wrote:
| "Object Packager"! I'd spend hours trying to figure out what you
| could do with a utility sporting such a cool name & icon.
|
| Did anyone ever use it for its mysterious but intended purpose?
| themodelplumber wrote:
| I did. It wasn't very cool after all. I know what you mean
| about the icon, too. And why wasn't it easier to get that kind
| of cool custom icon for one's favorite, and still current, MS-
| DOS apps at that time? Frustrating.
| mikewave wrote:
| IIRC - fuzzy old memories, but I think you could use it with
| OLE to combine a few different embedded OLE sources into one
| document, e.g. a Microsoft Draw vector piece and a Media Player
| MID into one component that could be embedded elsewhere.
|
| Very useless. Most Win 3.1 machines with 1-4MB RAM could barely
| even start MS Draw without churning swap like they were trying
| to make butter....
| kvakvs wrote:
| It wrapped media objects into compatible OLE 1.0 objects for
| insertion into OLE containers (example: office documents,
| presentations etc). It was a component of OLE before later
| versions and before OLE became ActiveX, and learned to embed
| stuff by themselves.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding#O...
| thom wrote:
| It's weird to think how big a part of desktop computing this
| once was, and now there's no real expectation for it. Web
| content's also not particularly embeddable. I used to love
| KParts in KDE - I'd start the morning with Konqueror open
| with some tabs showing web pages, some tabs showing my Excel
| time sheet or the Word docs with specs for what I was working
| on, and it was just totally normal that all this stuff worked
| and composed together.
| cousin_it wrote:
| I think "computery" music (synthesized on the user's device from
| individual notes) reached its peak with tracker/keygen music:
| https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/ That was maybe the last
| moment before video games switched to recorded music, and
| chiptunes became a nostalgia genre.
| bitwize wrote:
| For the game I'm developing, I'm making its music in Amiga
| Protracker. I'm probably going to render it down with MikMod or
| similar for the actual game tracks, but the intent is to
| capture that 90s vibe.
| sabujp wrote:
| live : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eRgGS4SuJ8
| greyivy wrote:
| A real treat was listening to this on the Yamaha softsynth
| software that came with my IBM Aptiva.
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