Brian Eno
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1,303 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
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So two things becoming important.
What is the structure of rules, if you like?
What are the possibilities that the system has?
What are the limitations that it has?
And what are the materials you put into it?
So if you make a wind chime out of glass, for instance, or out of bamboo rods, or out of metal, they're all going to be slightly different results.
But each one is a kind of
package of possibilities.
You're not specifically saying which possibilities you want to happen, but you're conditioning which group of possibilities can happen.
And I thought that was a sort of a nice area for music to be in, because if you think about it,
up until the turn of the 20th century you could never have the same musical experience twice there was no way that you could precisely repeat a musical experience as soon as records came along you could do that
You could hear exactly the same performance of exactly the same song over and over and over and over.
And that became how most of us listened to music, unless we happened to be born into a musical family or a church group or something like that.
Most of the music we heard was repetition.
So what I thought was, I wonder if you could use the technology of repetition to make music that constantly changes.
And my first clue to that was when I first got hold of a tape recorder.
I'd wanted a tape recorder my whole childhood.
I just thought the idea of being able to catch a piece of sound and make it physical was the most magical thing I could think of, actually.
And I had this obsession with...
You could play it backwards.
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