i love "my squelchy life" (and am glad it's now finally been officially released in its entirety) - i don't know if i'd put it over any of the Big Four but it's not far behind! in fact i'm just gonna listen to "the harness" again
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 October 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
brian eno's first teacher at art school:
“On our second day there, our first drawing exercise was to make a visual comparison between a venetian blind and a hot water tap. It was meant to be in terms of how they functioned, not in terms of how they looked. And this boggled everyone.“And then the first main project was that the students were put in pairs, and each pair of students had to invent a game, the function of which was to make some kind of psychological behavioral evaluation of people who played it. So they weren’t necessarily competitive games, they were games that involved making a decision rather than a number of others, and then extrapolating things about people’s personalities on the basis of those decisions. I think there were thirty students altogether, so there were fifteen games made. They varied through all sorts of things: mine was a kind of board game, others were whole rooms that you went through and did various things in. Anyway, all the students went through this, and consequently each student ended up with fifteen so-called character profiles. From those character profiles you had to make what was called a Mind Map, which was a kind of diagrammatic scheme of how you tended to behave in lots of different situations, and then the next part of the project was that you had to then assume a character who was as far as possible opposite to that one, and that was who you were to be for the rest of the semester, which was like eight more weeks. This was very, very interesting.“And then we were put into groups of five on the basis of these new assumed characters. The meekest person would be like the group policymaker, and the one who tended to talk most would be who got to do all the dirty work, like buying things from the shops. He would be the dogsbody; that was my job, actually. And so you had people working with characters who were quite alien to them.“And each group of five had another project that was a very complicated one that I can’t explain, but we had to make the projects using those characters.“There were some funny things (that) happened. There was one girl who was very timid, so part of her Mind Map stipulated that she had to walk this tightrope in front of the whole group every morning. This was her own stipulation, you know, these things weren’t imposed; having designed your own Mind Map you then worked out a number of behavior patterns that you carried out.
“And then the first main project was that the students were put in pairs, and each pair of students had to invent a game, the function of which was to make some kind of psychological behavioral evaluation of people who played it. So they weren’t necessarily competitive games, they were games that involved making a decision rather than a number of others, and then extrapolating things about people’s personalities on the basis of those decisions. I think there were thirty students altogether, so there were fifteen games made. They varied through all sorts of things: mine was a kind of board game, others were whole rooms that you went through and did various things in. Anyway, all the students went through this, and consequently each student ended up with fifteen so-called character profiles. From those character profiles you had to make what was called a Mind Map, which was a kind of diagrammatic scheme of how you tended to behave in lots of different situations, and then the next part of the project was that you had to then assume a character who was as far as possible opposite to that one, and that was who you were to be for the rest of the semester, which was like eight more weeks. This was very, very interesting.
“And then we were put into groups of five on the basis of these new assumed characters. The meekest person would be like the group policymaker, and the one who tended to talk most would be who got to do all the dirty work, like buying things from the shops. He would be the dogsbody; that was my job, actually. And so you had people working with characters who were quite alien to them.
“And each group of five had another project that was a very complicated one that I can’t explain, but we had to make the projects using those characters.
“There were some funny things (that) happened. There was one girl who was very timid, so part of her Mind Map stipulated that she had to walk this tightrope in front of the whole group every morning. This was her own stipulation, you know, these things weren’t imposed; having designed your own Mind Map you then worked out a number of behavior patterns that you carried out.
https://www.wired.com/2009/03/how-people-li-1/
― but i'm there are fuckups (Karl Malone), Sunday, 10 March 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
curious about this:
As part of the Warp Records takeover on NTS Radio, Brian Eno has teamed up with Extinction Rebellion to create an hour long piece which will be broadcast on Sunday June 23rd at 16.00 BST - https://nts.live/wxaxrxp
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
I’m not sure if it’s fair to describe an invited guest DJ sesh as a “takeover”
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
But that sounds cool!
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
I’m not sure if it’s fair to describe an invited guest DJ sesh as a “takeover”I went to Warp’s takeover of the Tate Modern in 2013 and that only went for about four hours. this is a little more substantial
over 100 hours of “exclusive mixes, live sessions, videos, unreleased material, new compositions and experimental free-form radio,”
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
warp will not let up until NTS issues an unconditional surrender
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
Eno will one day be totally simulated on a crystal computer
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
Ha, like this won't be a generative performance.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKiXwtIFMKY
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
I'll see that (hilarious) video and raise you this: https://www.facebook.com/danergy/videos/10156118856420745/
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
22 months old when that video was shot.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
here's a more recent one, Eno makes a brief mention:
https://www.facebook.com/danergy/videos/10156478785910745/
2 and 4 months.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
Excellent work, Dan. The indoctrination appears complete.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 12 July 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
lol what a great age!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 July 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
Nice little video on Apollo and the making of the new material: https://youtu.be/WTxkLGBkcO0
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 27 July 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
Clarification: good, but not as good as Dan’s daughter.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 27 July 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
My daughter had to watch "The Lovely Bones" for a class (to compare it to the book), and since I'd never seen it I watched it a bit (pretty turgid stuff). However, while I knew it had an Eno score, I always thought it was just bits and pieces of ambient leftovers, so I was shocked to hear that it uses huge hunks of his '70s vocal work! Weird choice that doesn't really work, but kind of cool to see, for example, Marky Mark get beat up to "Baby's On Fire."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
ugh that is an abomination
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPY0rW6Paqo
― PaulTMA, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
Lol. He should put out an entire album of protest music, especially if it gets him to sing more.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
Sounds like an outtake from the Kinks' Preservation Act 2
― PaulTMA, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
Roger and Brian Eno Announce New Album Mixing Colours
Missed this. Roger and Brian have their first joint album out on Deutsche Grammophon, March 20. First track is up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKeK_alwonk
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 7 February 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
Love that this is happening. They’ve done less work together than you’d think but the work they have done is quite good. In addition to Apollo, the concluding track on Roger’s Voices is just magic. Roger’s second record, Between Tides (produced by Michael Brook and w no Brian involvement) is a total masterpiece. I believe they were somewhat estranged until recently.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
three very moving comments on a YouTube upload of a Brian Eno ambient album pic.twitter.com/PZOwpbYXsW— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) February 13, 2020
― Neil S, Friday, 14 February 2020 08:19 (four years ago) link
Two of my students’ reactions to Music for Airports:“This sounds like waiting in line”“Music for those fancy bathrooms”I reminded them that what they described is basically an airport experience and they loled and agreed 😀✈️
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 14 February 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
lol at those youtube comments, a+
ll you should ask your students to imagine what airports and fancy toilets sounded like before brian eno
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
fancy toilets sounded like before brian eno
They probably sounded pretty shitty.
“This sounds like waiting in line”“Music for those fancy bathrooms”
OTM.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 February 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
and xpost I could have sworn that Music for Airports was ironically most often used in hospitals, for women giving birth. Unless that was Discreet Music ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 February 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
ll you should ask your students to imagine what airports and fancy toilets sounded like before brian enoi basically did -- we talked about what ambient music is and why anyone would want it, music for specific purposes etc. we were working on listening and describing. they did really well!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
i am all for more eno in schools, so thank u for yr service
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
i work at a college, but Eno in school beats what i had to deal with in hs. they used to play a top 40/pop r&b station between classes and one day it changed format to "alternative". on that day, they played "it's the end of the world as we know it" continuously for 24 hours. that was a very weird day at school.
pardon this off-topic aside but i was wondering what my high school experience would/could have been like if eno had been playing between classes.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
blissful, serene, boundlessly creative
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
heh, I can only imagine what it would be like if they played, like, his first album.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 February 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
lol yes I was imagining trotting out of class to BLANK FRANK IS THE MESSENGER OF YOUR DOOM AND YOUR DESTRUCTIOOOOOOOON
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
Although Here Come the Warm Jets (the song) would have been totally perfect
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
i was wondering what my high school experience would/could have been like if eno had been playing between classes
My HS never played Eno on the PA but once played Roxy Music's "Whirlwind". An unusual choice, even for Roxy fans, but still made me feel like there was a crack in the clouds that day.
A friend in HS used to wear a Taking Tiger Mountain t-shirt, which would inevitably lead to some asshat referencing the antacid product.
― doug watson, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
my HS never played anything on the PA, ever. jealous of yr educations!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 February 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
xp What antacid product?
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Friday, 14 February 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.enoantacid.ca/about-eno.html
― doug watson, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61hQuYzc1bL._AC_SY879_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
That’s funny. Eno does give me heartburn (and, why not, gas).
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
That was "Neroli", I believe. Personally I've never managed to get to the end of that piece but then I've never given birth.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
that’s one of his best imo (neroli)
― brimstead, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
I don’t really like music for airports 😬
― brimstead, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
I feel like this chimes with Enos original theory of ambient, and the more prescient he becomes the harder it is to hear the music as revolutionary. Probably the same goes for Satie and Stravinsky.
― 29 facepalms, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
The sound of waiting in line is, like, hoobastank, Ed Sheehan
― brimstead, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
how had I never heard Eno's mix of Massive Attack's "Protection"? it fucking rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b97pwVKWuo4
― The Troops™ (jamescobo), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
I like all of Eno's unexpected remixes of that era. Massive Attack, Suede, Depeche Mode ... even EMF!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfa7Y0oEkl0
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
Love that this is happening. They’ve done less work together than you’d think but the work they have done is quite good. In addition to /Apollo/, the concluding track on Roger’s /Voices/ is just magic. Roger’s second record, /Between Tides/ (produced by Michael Brook and w no Brian involvement) is a total masterpiece. I believe they were somewhat estranged until recently.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 20 March 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link