Susumu Hirasawa Composes Boot Jingle for AmigaOS 4.0

[Trezzer]

Chaos Union and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that recording artist Susumu Hirasawa will deliver a boot jingle created specifically for AmigaOS 4.0. Two additional tracks will also be included on the AmigaOS 4.0 CD to showcase Hirasawa's music.


About Susumu Hirasawa

Susumu Hirasawa is a highly acclaimed recording artist. He has written soundtracks for commercial successes such as Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent, the Beserk tv-series and videogame, and he is currently working on his latest cd-release. Since 1979 he helped defined Japanese pop-techno in the group P-MODEL and launched his first solo album in 1989. Since the mid-90s Hirasawa has toured with his Interactive Live Show utilizing Amigas with the support of Amiga user group of Japan(FAMIGA) for a spectacular interactive multimedia performance.

About Hyperion Entertainment VOF

Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).

Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs.

Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.

[ikir]

If you are interested check this interview with Hirasawa:
http://www.iksnet.it/articoli.php?id=20&mod=vis&lang=it -> English
http://www.iksnet.it/articoli.php?id=21&mod=vis&lang=it -> Italian

[System]

Interesting I suppose, but I was hoping for real news regarding the release of AmigaOS4, not just a boot sound.

[Trezzer]

@Wayne

Nice with a snack while we wait though, right ?
I'm personally very excited about it, since I'm a big fan of his work - especially the Berserk soundtrack.

[amigamad]

Forgive my ignorance but i have never heard of him, but he does seem to be quite well known i expect this is one of the many finishing touches to the final release   all news however small is good news.

[boing]

I thought that the Amiga 1000 power-up sound and the PET power-up sounds were quite adequate, thank you.

And I want them back.

[RacerX]

As quickly as OS4 boots up do we really need a jingle?

Of course windoze boots so slowly {"How slow is it?"} you could play "American Pie" or "Alice's Restaurant"!

[benJamin]

@ RacerX:  :lol:

@ Everyone:
   The idea, I thought, was to attract new blood, not just impress old users.

   I thought it was pointless having a start-up sound for AmigaAMP to be more like WinAMP, but it impresses some people, comforts them and makes them think that really, it's not so far removed from Windex after all.

   Of course, we know that it's not far removed from Windex 'cause M$ copied Xerox, Apple, Amiga, GEOS, or anyone who looked like they might be inovative...   :-D

benJamin
"Why can't it just BURP after it's finished booting?"

[Waccoon]

I just hope it's better than the annoying Intel jingle.

What was the name of that compression utility with background music?  Imploder?

[Kaminari]

This is great to know that Famiga is still alive and kicking after all those years, although I wish the Japanese community was less reclusive -- those guys were almost as active as the X68000 fans back in the glory days.