Brian Eno
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
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And by that, I mean, I used to be very frightened of flying.
And of course, I had to do it at that time in my career.
And I thought, well, what about if you could make a kind of music that made you less worried about the idea of dying?
What about if you could make a piece of music that made your life seem less the center of your attention?
If you could see yourself as just being one atom in
universe of complicated molecules, would that make things feel better?
So in a way, it was intended to take the stress off yourself, not by pretending you weren't flying.
So let's make it just sound like a disco or a
a nightclub or something like that which is what most of the music tries to do let's not do that let's say we're having an unusual experience and let's experience it as a beautiful experience one of the things in that album music reports your liner notes are very famous and i know you've been asked about a million times i don't want to stay here too long but you do talk about wanting
Well, I think what's happened is that it's changed in both directions.
So I think people are ready to accord music a level of attention that they never have done in the past.
For instance, when you go to these...
Extremely long concerts sometimes, 10 hours long, where you're basically listening to three sign tones for a very long time.
That's a level of attention that really people never thought of giving until at least the middle of the 20th century and later.
So there's that.
And then on the other hand, you have TikTok.
or very short pieces of music like that, which are, of course, right at the other end of the scale.
But I think in culture, this is a general rule that every single standard, every single metric has increased in both directions.
We now have extremely long pieces of music and extremely short ones.
We have extremely loud bands and very, very, very quiet ones.
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