1/1/17 – Reflection https://www.facebook.com/brianenomusic/photos/a.556181867729342.141504.148573968490136/1477189158961937/?type=3&theater
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Pieces like this have another name: they’re GENERATIVE. By that I mean they make themselves. My job as a composer is to set in place a group of sounds and phrases, and then some rules which decide what happens to them. I then set the whole system playing and see what it does, adjusting the sounds and the phrases and the rules until I get something I’m happy with. Because those rules are probabilistic ( - often taking the form ‘perform operation x, y percent of the time’) the piece unfolds differently every time it is activated. What you have here is a recording of one of those unfoldings.
wish eno would set up a website dedicated to neverending performances of his generative pieces. let it unfold and fold and unfold again in perpetuity
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
Would be cool to do via the Long Now Foundation he's a part of:
http://longnow.org/
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
As long as he doesn't sing. Please don't ruin another album with your voice, Brian.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
hahaha gtfo with that (said as somebody who loves/owns most of his non-vocal recordings)
― sleeve, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
I suppose we each have our preferences.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 00:32 (seven years ago) link
so you think he ruined his first four albums?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 01:44 (seven years ago) link
Those are not Ambient albums. He definitely ruined The Ship with his voice, for me at least.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
I liked his voice on that album, personally
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
brian eno's thirty-year project of turning himself into a computer has done little to impress me.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
you forgot to post a picture of a stern guy with his arms crossed and add "hmph" to the end of that
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
but i don't have any pictures of brian eno
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
xps oh OK I get that sentiment
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
LOL – we have come full circle with the "Brian, why don't you sing anymore?" stuff.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 17 November 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
hahaha
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 November 2016 03:52 (seven years ago) link
Kinda pissed that the app version of this is available for iOS and Apple TV but not the desktop Mac OS.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Monday, 2 January 2017 04:00 (seven years ago) link
whaaat
https://pitchfork.com/news/lee-scratch-perry-and-brian-eno-share-new-song-here-come-the-warm-dreads-listen/
― Book Doula (sleeve), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
sounds good. reggae and eno fit together.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 17 October 2019 05:19 (four years ago) link
Kinda shocking Eno, Sherwood and Perry have never worked together before, afaik.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link