OPUS 1 HOLD MUSIC ARCHIVE
OPUS 1 HOLD MUSIC PLUS

'Has it ever yielded anything good for you? If it hasn't made you money, has anyone ever bought you a drink in a bar? Have you picked up women with it?' she asks. It may not be the future of music distribution but this is how the world works.Ĭorbett asks Carleton if he'd ever gotten anything from his composition's spread. People record this music, post it to YouTube, and people like Corbett's father-in-law discover it and put it on in the background while they sweep the kitchen. Carleton assented and into the system the song went, eventually set as the default on millions of phones. 1, and it was recorded by Tim Carleton in 1989, when he was 16.

That's when Carleton's friend Darrick Deel, who had gone to work for Cisco, called him up and told him that this song could become Cisco's default hold music. The instrumental track is formally titled Opus No. The song was recorded on a four-track and forgotten for almost a decade until some time in the '90s.

OPUS 1 HOLD MUSIC PLUS

Four years of that song, hearing it every single work day plus every one of the waking-my-ass-up 2-3am during on-call shifts. Its never been on a Top 40 list or gotten radio play, and yet its heard around the world. His name is Tim Carleton, and he's now a mostly ungoogleable IT guy here in the Bay Area. Whoever thought that would be a good track to use for a MSP's hold music on support and outage/war-room calls had a dark sense of humor that needs a slap in the face. In any case, the most wonderful thing about this piece of music is that a Yanni-loving 16-year-old computer nerd composed it. It’s never been on a Top 40 list or gotten radio play, and yet it’s heard around the world by the millions of people who are placed on hold each day.

OPUS 1 HOLD MUSIC ARCHIVE

2749 tracks for download royalty free On Hold background music MP3. This hold music is called Opus 1 You can find the story behind it from a archive of Cisco's Blog- and a full copy on youtube The song is called Opus No. If you can hear this song, you are still alive. Looking for something else to pass the time while you're waiting Check out Mojis (for your iPhoneThe song is called Opus No. On hold music will make your business clients stay on the line while waiting for you. Perhaps this tune is better than silence. In the stale elevator descending slowly into hades, this is what pours from the padded, yellow walls.Īnd if you leave it on in the background while you're working, just sitting in a tab, and then you turn it off, you may notice a curious absence. At three minutes, there is this horrifying funky Michael Bolton breakdown played on a xylophone synth.

Opus 1 hold music