Mini music

We can hear mini music here and there, just open your computer and internet connection and by clicking your mouse you might hear some short compositions made especially for that purpose. Compositions for TV-commercials usually last some 30 seconds (or less), computer games need short music... You could hear opening music on net sites, but if they are longer than few seconds, visitors can't stand it and go away! So there is actually need for mini music.

It was 10 years ago when Brian Eno composed his mini compositions. Here is a sample of an interview where Brian Eno and interviewer discuss on his 3 1/4 second long boot-up music for Microsoft's Windows 95:

'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.'

The whole interview is here:

San Francisco Chronicle
June 2, 1996
Q and A With Brian Eno:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/06/02/PK70006.DTL