Robert Fripp, the genius guitairist of King Crimson, was employed to create the "soundscape" that is the meant to encapsulate the essence of the Windows Vista theme.
Two full days of work and more than 4 hours of recording was edited to create the final 4-note splash that you can hear for just seconds as the start up sound of your computer. It is estimated that it was played 29 trillion times in one year, prompting Fripp to exclaim "So, one of the planet’s least popular music forms will also be the planet’s most sounded in 2008. This has to be some kind of a record."
