Mental Floss brought us the work of London-based musician Daniel John Jones who has experimented with slowing down the playback of an assortment of Windows start-up sounds. As part of a project on his Soundcloud page, he has slowed down a number of Windows start-up sounds by up to 4000 percent.
In the case of Windows XP, the iconic sound takes on an eerie trance-like tone that lasts just shy of three minutes. Its build-up and dramatic payoff never seemed to make the pay-off when I started up my PC. Listen here.
The Windows 95 start-up sound, which lasts nearly 4 minutes takes on a new-agey mood with a sinister edge to it. Listen here.
The full collection of Jones’s Windows work can be found here.
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