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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The Ezra Klein Show · Best Of: A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

So I think that became an obsession to try to make a recorded music that somehow changed every time.

I finally achieved it in the 1990s and I'm still doing it now.

So the conception of an architect is somebody who thinks about an end result in great detail.

You know, the archetype is Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed everything down to the teaspoons in his houses.

And so the whole thing kind of pre-exists in the architect's mind and then is bought into being by builders.

What a gardener does is put some seeds in the soil and then watches how they develop.

Oh, these ones over here are doing better than those ones over there.

So next year I'll plant them differently.

But you know that if you're making a garden,

You're only starting something.

So one of Stuart Brand's books, it's called How Buildings Learn.

It's a great book.

And in that, he says, you never finish a building, you only start it.

And I think that's what I kind of mean by generative music.

You start the piece, but it finishes itself.

It carries on finishing itself for the rest of time.

I think they mean the same thing.

Now, of course, as a set of techniques, mine is much, much, much cruder and simpler and much more analog than the techniques that are generally being used in LLMs.

And of course, the other big difference is that mine are not owned by mad billionaires.

And I think that's an important difference.

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