Recently for no particular reason we were thinking about the sounds you
can set many computers to make when (for example) mail arrives, a program
crashes or the machine simply wants to attract your attention.  I have been
boring and set my machine to emit some of the noises supplied with it, such
as the Microsoft Sound (isn't that a stretch of water near Seattle?) But I
wondered whether people have used their imagination to get their computer
to play particular fragments of classical music in various situations,
or thought about what might be appropriate.  I can see one problem; you
probably will come to dislike strongly any piece your computer plays at
you too often!  I have various ideas of my own (I think Stravinsky might
be a good source of beeps) but I'd be interested to hear other people's.
Apologies if this one has come round recently while I've been off list.

Virginia Knight
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