Which company's original brief to Brian Eno was to compose a piece of inspirational music to last 3.25 seconds?
Brian Eno of the band, playing keyboards, treatments and background vocals. He worked on the twelfth studio album by U2, again with Lanois, titled "No Line on the Horizon". It was recorded in Morocco, the South of France and Dublin and released in Europe on 27 February 2009. In 2011, Eno and Coldplay reunited and Eno contributed "enoxification" and additional composition on Coldplay's fifth studio album "Mylo Xyloto", released on 24 October of that year. In 1994, Microsoft designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Eno to compose music for the Windows 95 project. The result was the six-second start-up music-sound of
30 Seconds to Mars (album) self-determination, characterized by personal lyrics that use otherworldly elements and conceptual ideas to illustrate a truthful personal situation. The album incorporates progressive sounds with influences and elements from new wave, space rock, and electronica. Upon release, "30 Seconds to Mars" received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who commended the album's lyrical content and the band's musicianship, which has been compared to the works of Pink Floyd, Tool, and Brian Eno. The album debuted at number 107 on the "Billboard" 200 and number one on the US Top Heatseekers. It was a slow-burning success that eventually sold two million copies