Microsoft's Windows 95 hit shelves on this day in 1995, and Brian Eno's audio work made it even more memorable.

And who better to tell a story with sound than Brian Eno? Thus Eno was commissioned to give Windows 95 ‘a voice’ and ‘personality’. There was only one catch.

The musician ended his letter by pledging to donate the fee he originally received for his Windows 95 composition to support for victims of attacks in Gaza. “If a sound can signal a real change ...

I also pledge that the fee I originally received for that Windows 95 chime will now go towards helping the victims of the attacks on Gaza. If a sound can signal a real change then let it be this one.

Artist and musician Brian Eno — who also composed the iconic Windows 95 operating system startup chime — called on Microsoft today to “suspend all services that support any operations that ...

Eno has also produced songs with David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, Coldplay, and more leading musicians. Arguably, Eno is most famous for creating the startup sound for Microsoft Windows.

Eno had contributed the soundtrack for Hustwit’s previous documentary, “Rams” (2018), a profile of the German industrial designer Dieter Rams. But when the director proposed a movie about ...

As Eno began to create his solo albums of “ambient music” (a form he more or less invented, though it’s now so pervasive it’s almost hard to hear how out of the box it was then), he held ...