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Who's the man behind the sound you hear, every time you startup your Mac? One More Thing (onemorething.nl) went down to San Jose to track him down: Jim Reekes. He worked for Apple for over 12 years, during which he left his mark on everything sound at Apple.


Wie is eigenlijk de man achter het geluidje dat klinkt bij het opstarten van een Mac? En zorgt überhaupt voor de geluidjes in het systeem? We reisden af naar San Jose en vonden daar Jim Reekes. De man die 12 jaar voor Apple werkte en in die tijd zijn stempel heeft gedrukt op alles wat met geluid te maken heeft. Zijn invloed van weleer is iedere dag nog hoorbaar.

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  • Victor Ingrassia plus 2 years ago
    sosumi!! i LOVE it. that's too funny. and all this time i figured it was some Japanese esoterica.
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  • Alexandre Rivest 1 year ago
    Ear-conic! I love it!!
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  • nkm 1 year ago
    I read about the "sosumi" story before, it' nice hearing it from the author himself, though.

    If you look at the Apple's website source code, the element containing their copyright notice it's actually called "sosumi" :)
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  • Mark Hernandez 1 year ago
    Sculptors and painters, for instance, leave a trail of physical art behind them that lasts for a very long time and is appreciated by others. Programmer's, however, leave a trail of beautiful works which eventually get deleted, abandoned and forgotten. Most of Jim's software art is now lost, but he's so very fortunate to have also created something physical enough - the Mac startup sound - that it will never be deleted or forgotten, and has been immortalized in film.
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  • diskgrinder 1 year ago
    nice when he talked about the "applaudience" and got a little choked up. So "earconic" and "applaudience" are two words I'm going to use from now on
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  • Sam Posten plus 1 year ago
    boingboing.net/2005/03/24/early_apple_sound_de.html
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  • Sunny Thaper 1 year ago
    What a great story! I honestly didn't think this would be remotely interesting what I first clicked it but boy was I wrong.
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  • Jesse Dacri 1 year ago
    Okay, I was suspecting it the whole, but then I saw the wobble effect when they moved the camera towards the end. And I can spot that awesome DOF and wobble effect anywhere.

    Was this done on a 5D Mark II?
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  • John Wilbur 1 year ago
    Wonderful video, worth watching on many levels. His ending revelation is stunning, about the appointment he's going to!
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  • kandis friesen 1 year ago
    I really want to know who made the empty trash sound. It is incredibly satisfying.
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  • Justin Baez 11 months ago
    Great interview
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