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Lament for Soundcloud and the Wilful Disregard to the demise of Group Functions [Disquiet0239]

Sad sad sad to hear of the demise of Soundclowns groups functions.
This weeks Junto was interesting though and I had an idea - not strictly following the instructions of the challenge which calls for "a short composition in memoriam for a piece of recently deceased software" - I decided to use the old Windows XP theme music as the basis of my track - so its not obviously what was asked for but I liked the idea of using it. In part though to me this piece of sound - which opens up these old computers - has only recently deceased, this is because I have an old laptop that I was still using till lately (because I have an old version of Cool Edit Pro music software which believe it or not I still use from time to time for certain tasks), even though its 15 year old software and so I still hear that XP start up sound a lot even though to a lot of people its like something from long ago, well this old girl stopped working lately and so it seems to me that its a fair choice of sound. So anyway I just used that opening sound and slowed it down to about 20 seconds in length and took a midi reading of the notes and played these through various other sounds. Then I added some effects and other processing and the sad lamenting strings which makes it, I hope a mournful sound befitting the stupid decision by soundcloud this week and that was about it.