Brian Eno
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
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And that came from a very direct experience like that of sitting in a newly built airport in Germany, near Cologne.
And everything about the airport was dazzlingly beautiful.
It was a lovely structure.
And they had terrible German disco music playing really loud through the whole PA system in the airport.
And I just thought, nobody's thought about this issue of what kind of music would belong in this place.
You know, we use music in public all the time, but...
Does anybody actually sit down and think seriously, what would be the best kind of music to have in this important place where people are arriving, leaving, going on to important new phases in their lives or going back to loved ones or whatever?
It ought to be something a bit more.
I started thinking, what should it be more of?
And so I started thinking and trying to make a kind of music that I thought would
would make the airport experience feel important and special.
And there were quite a lot of technical considerations, like obviously it mustn't interfere with communication.
It mustn't keep stopping and starting.
It must not matter if it gets interrupted.
So on and so on.
So that was a very conscious act of making a work of art.
But most of what I do isn't really motivated by such high-sounding ideas.
Most of the time I'm fiddling around and something starts to happen.
Something happens.
intrigues me or some feeling starts to happen I think I like that feeling how can I bring that forward how can I make more of it and I often don't know why I'm doing that or how it will end up I have an archive of about 11,000 unfinished pieces of music and what I do occasionally is pull one of those out
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