23.5.0531 commentsPost a CommentTINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 1: The 'Intel Inside' chimesAustrian KLF fan Walter Werzowa had never heard of Intel when they asked him to compose a 3 second jingle for them. Last year alone, they spent $350m promoting the sound he created in his home studio by paying PC companies to use it in their ads. It's played once every five minutes somewhere around the world.>>Walter has a mysterious and wonderful past. In the late 1980s, he and a friend came up with an idea for an ABBA-vs-yodelling novelty record called "Bring Me Edelweiss". Then they read the KLF's 'The Manual: How to Have a Number One Hit the Easy Way' [full text here]. They followed the instructions in the book, and sold 2 million copies across Europe. That's how he had enough money to live in LA. >>Walter's friend Kyle Cooper was commissioned to create an ad for Intel and asked Walter to provide some music. In less than three seconds, they wanted "tones that evoked innovation, trouble-shooting skills and the inside of a computer, while also sounding corporate and inviting". >>He sat in his home studio for a weekend, getting more and more frustrated: "Everything just felt stupid, chopped off and strange," he says. >>The breakthrough came when he stared at the words 'Intel Inside' and started to sing them. He used 4ths and 5ths, because they're the most common intervals worldwide. It took ten days to record.>>Walter is a big synth collector (he says he hasn't got 'all of them'). For the Intel sound he used 40+ layers, including a DX7, Oberheim OBX, Prophet VS, Emulator IIIx, Roland S760 and his beloved Jupiter 8, which was the first synth he ever bought. >>He used lots of marimba and xylophone sounds because they 'sound corporate'>>He was paid a set fee ("not that much") for the Intel work, but it opened a lot of doors. Now Walter's company Musikvergnuegen (German for 'Love of Music') employs 11 people.>>Walter has just finished a sound for Samsung that will be used on all their advertising worldwide. He says that listening to tiny bits of music over and over and over is an acceptable occupational hazard. >>More on Walter in this interview from Mix Magazine. NEXT UP: WINDOWS 95 AND BRIAN ENO Posted by Tom Whitwell. Comments: Excellent post, one of your best. Way to go on the 'actual journalistic skills' :)# posted by Tal : 1:04 pm yeah! fun reading.. looking forward to the next one, but I can't hear the sound sample on my (mac)computer.. why?# posted by Anonymous : 1:30 pm Don't know why it's not working for you - it seems to play fine on my mac at work any my pc at home... Anyone?# posted by Tom Whitwell : 1:40 pm great post...really looking forward to hearing about the thx noise...is it a cs80 ? i think thats my fave bit of micro music...cant wait to find out...avery .# posted by Anonymous : 3:59 pm i think asger was telling a joke.# posted by Anonymous : 6:19 pm Man it's incredible what KLF are responsible. Truely inspiring. Great article btw.# posted by Brob : 8:43 pm Where do you get that KLF book 'the manual" anyway? I could use the help!# posted by Anonymous : 9:29 pm Say, anybody know who did the guitar theme for MTV back in the day? You know, the one with the claymation MTV logo. I've heard it was the Butthole Surfers, but I can't find any reliable source.Thanks.# posted by Anonymous : 9:52 pm Great post. But can it really be 40+ layers? The first hit is pretty dense, but come on...# posted by Paul : 10:24 pm "The Manual" can be found at # posted by Rod Begbie : 4:18 am If you are interested in this you could find out more about the field of 'sonic branding' by reading the book, 'Sonic Branding'. Look it up on Amazon.Great piece by the way. When you gonna feature Raymond Scott?# posted by corky burger : 6:35 pm WOW, thanks for posting the link to the full text of the Manual. I had checked Amazon (US) earlier to see if they had any paperback versions. Oh, and they do. They are only $134. What a deal! -listing/0863596169/qid=1116977358/sr=8-1/ref=xs_ap_bun1_xgl14_a//102-1893601-2268167?condition=all# posted by Anonymous : 12:35 am Mike Oldfield has noted that these four notes seem awfully similar to the first four notes of Tubular Bells. He has a point -- although, naturally, Intel disagree!# posted by Anonymous : 10:37 am This guy needs a jingle on his site: # posted by Anonymous : 9:53 pm This is very cool. However, I was hoping for a bit of information on the sound upgrade that ocurred, I think, when the Pentium III came out. It might have been the Pentium II, but I think it was the III. The sound changed -- it became a bit more chorused or something. I prefer the old one. I think the MP3 in the article is the old one. Any insight?Of course, I could research it myself, but this is one of those many things I haven't gotten around to.# posted by Anonymous : 10:23 pm wow! i can't believe that the intel jingle had 40 layers! i would think at the most 5. thats amazing!# posted by Anonymous : 5:57 am This is very cool.------------------# posted by bolan : 10:45 pm # posted by bolan : 11:24 pm They reprinted The Manual not so long ago, after a long period of it being unobtainable. -8448339-8437552 is where to look! You should read Drummond's other books too, they're extremely good and he probably needs the money seeing as he burnt it all...# posted by Anonymous : 4:40 pm Hi. Thanks for the insights.Steve @Opportunities# posted by Anonymous : 12:35 pm picture of zoroastrianismDeclaration of Heaven on Earth!picture of zoroastrianismPlease chant this prayer to recieve heaven on earth:picture of zoroastrianismDearest, greatest, holiest!Please give us all, the full heaven on earth!I thank you, & I worship you.picture of zoroastrianism# posted by Brian O'mally : 4:14 am Hi. Thanks for the insights.Steve @ # posted by Anonymous : 10:45 am Maybe it's just me, but it always drove me nuts how the "Intel Inside" chimes are note-for-note the same as this one scene in the musical Miss Saigon (which was written several years prior). It's somewhere in the second act; there's this scene where the wife of the protagonist is finding out that he's had a son w/ a Vietnamese girl, and there it is -- the "Intel Inside" tune, repeated like 3-4 times in a sung exchange between the characters. Glad he's making bux though! 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