This snippet of music was recorded from a telephone while on hold. It sounds very familiar, yet I haven’t been able to identify it. Anyone?
The snippet I heard only has 2.5 notes - is that the whole thing? If so, it’s almost impossible to judge based on that.
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The snippet I heard only has 2.5 notes - is that the whole thing? If so, it’s almost impossible to judge based on that.
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Gee, I don’t know how to explain that.
It’s a .wav file that’s about a minute long. I have no idea why you only got a bit of it. 
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Gee, I don’t know how to explain that.
It’s a .wav file that’s about a minute long. I have no idea why you only got a bit of it.
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I heard the whole thing with RealPlayer/Rhapsody, but only identified it as ‘hold music’, slightly less jazzy then ours.
I don’t know, but it kind of sounds like something from The Truman Show… maybe a Philip Glass piece? Or it could also be Enya…
Doesn’t sound like Phillip Glass, but I don’t know what it is. The voiceover advising me to hold for the next available operator was weird.
That helps a lot, right?
Sorry. Don’t know.
It’s just generic hold music. It probably sounds familiar because other companies have used it also.
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This snippet of music was recorded from a telephone while on hold. It sounds very familiar, yet I haven’t been able to identify it. Anyone?
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A quick listen suggests to me that it is a piece of piano chamber music, played with a bit more modern interpretation. Maybe something by George Winston on Windham Hill records? You could check Amazon - he has a ton of CD’s out…
Reminds me of the first song on Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports album.
Many thanks for the input, folks, To me, the endless arpeggios sound like something by Philip Glass, but I can’t put my finger on it. I think I’ve heard this in a movie recently.
Of course, it might be it’s something that was deliberately created to be bland music to be played while “on hold.”
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The voiceover advising me to hold for the next available operator was weird.
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What was weird about it?
I’m sure I’ve heard that piece before, too. I’ll have to think about it.
I still haven’t thought of it, but you should check out this site I just found for uploading pieces of music. It’s also fun to try to identify the ones that have been uploaded. I got one, but it turned out that someone else had already answered. (And I thought my knowledge of Van Halen was going to be useful! Damn!)
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I still haven’t thought of it, but you should check out this site I just found for uploading pieces of music. It’s also fun to try to identify the ones that have been uploaded. I got one, but it turned out that someone else had already answered. (And I thought my knowledge of Van Halen was going to be useful! Damn!)
http://iden.tify.us/
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Wow, that’s a fascinating site, jsgoddess! Thanks. I tried to upload an MP3 of the music, but when the site plays it back, it is impossibly fast. I don’t know why. The same MP3 plays normally on my computer.
I am still thinking that this was written by Philip Glass. It sounds like so many of his repetitive, minimalist piano works.
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What was weird about it?
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:shrug and throw up my hands at my humble admission that I didn’t absorb the entire content of the OP smiley:
I just expected a music clip, so when the voiceover happened, I was rather
Upon re-reading the OP, I see I shouldn’t have been.
It’s definitely not Philip Glass. It sounds more like a Hanon exercise than Glass.
It reminds me of a Dead Like Me song, “Nomah’s Land” - have you watched that show, lately?