Brian Eno
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1,303 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Brian Eno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's as if we've taken every dimension in which music can exist and tried to expand it and say, what would happen at the edges now?
Let's make a new edge.
Well, you're right.
In your previous question, you asked, did I feel any responsibility for that?
And I do, actually.
I mean, I was very excited about the idea of generative music.
I invented the phrase, I believe.
And I was very excited by the idea of making a music like a seed of
You know, a seed is something that has a genetic message in it.
And every manifestation of it will be a little bit different depending on where you plant it and what time of year it grew and so on and so on.
So I thought, wouldn't it be nice if you had music like that?
So, I mean, there's a very simple example of that.
A wind chime is a simple enough machine.
Let's say you've got five chimes.
Each one is a particular pitch.
It's not going to change.
It's only that pitch.
But how and when they strike...
depends on the wind so it's sort of semi-random so you can't really say that you composed that particular performance though you can say that i built the system from which that performance emanated you know a wind chime is basically a simple piece of generative music
Yes, that's right.
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