In the Court of the Crimson King + 37 yrs = Vista Beep

18 months to make a beep?

Stones music is the background for TV commercials and now this.
It turns out our generation did not change the world. The world changed us.

1, You would think that an entire article about a short sound would include a link to the sound.

2. I keep my speakers turned off until there is something I want to hear, I turn them on to listen to it, and then I turn them off again. So I never hear all the crazy sound effects that computers have. I wonder how often I'll hear that beep.

3. At least it's a paying gig.

Does this make us all 21st Century Schizoid Men?

I expect so, Els. I expect so.

Don't look at me. I'm still having a hard time describing that sound at the beginning of "Law & Order".

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15656246/

The sound.

Definitely not worth 18 months of effort. I particularly don't like the harsh buzz about 1/3 of the way in.

It also makes me think that either Fripp has lost his creative direction, or he didn't have much to do with the creativity in ITKOTKC to begin with.

edited to add - Thanks for pointing out the clip, Ibram.

Ibram wrote:

The sound.

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dar512 wrote:

I particularly don't like the harsh buzz about 1/3 of the way in.

That's distortion, the clip was heavily compressed for that site. The real thing will sound much better.

18 months to write? No way. 18 months to get the managers to sign off? More likely.

Right now I am imagining a world where the start up chime, whenever you wanted to boot your computer, would be the entire album "Starless and Bible Black".

How different the world would be if you had to listen to that entire album whenever you started up your computer.

Um...I've made better noises than that just screwing around with a digital synth in a music store. Four notes and a pad? Jesus, am I in the wrong line of work.

richlevy wrote:

Don't look at me. I'm still having a hard time describing that sound at the beginning of "Law & Order".

It's called "doink doink", although Mike Post (who invented it) calls it "The Ching".

http://blog.rickbreslin.com/blog/law_and_order_doink_doink_sound.asp

Post: (When coming up with the idea of themes for the show, Dick Wolf) said no, this is about the slickness and sort of just the -- it's got to have something streety about it and sophisticated at the same time. Okay, well, the streetyness is obvious in the guitar and the sophistication, okay, so I did go back and listen to Rhapsody in Blue and I go, I can use a clarinet and I can do that, too. Gershwin doesn't have a copyright on the clarinet. So I put those two elements together and tried to design a piece of music that would speak both to the cop half of the show and the lawyer half of the show.... It had to not be complex, but it had to have something that took you on a little bit of a journey in the middle section to speak to the unraveling of the case in terms of the law. Those are the kinds of things he said to me, and I came out with this thing that's worked real well in these years. And the other thing we discussed in that was he said I need a sound that goes along with these cards that are going to identify our location.

Kitt: The chunk, chunk sound.
Post: Right. And those could happen every 2 minutes, every 4 minutes, it's going to happen a lot in the show. So I went and sampled -- I found a sample of a jail door closing, and I put it with a couple of little other sounds, and made this ching-ching thing.

Kitt: What's the official name of that sound?
Post: The ching.