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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And if you aren't feeling excitement, then you try to create it in some way.
If the situation isn't turning you on, then you try to change it until it does turn you on.
Because when you're excited, you are at your most alert, I think.
And when you're at your most alert, you're most likely to spot the little thing that is going to turn into the big thing.
The whole essay.
Yes, I think what bothers me, which is exactly part of what you're saying, is the possibility of not making a mistake at all, of making things that always come with this sort of professional finished gloss of what a real pop song looks like or what a real picture looks like.
And I think that's lethal.
I have a friend, an architect friend called Rem Koolhaas.
He's a Dutch architect, and he uses this phrase, the premature sheen.
So in his architectural practice, when they first got computers, and computers were first good enough to do proper renderings of things,
He said, everything looked amazing at first.
You know, you could construct a building in half an hour in the computer and you'd have this amazing looking thing.
And he said, but it didn't help us make good buildings.
It helped us make things that looked like they might be good buildings.
But he said, in the end, we went back.
And I went to visit him one day when they were working on a big new complex for someplace in Texas.
And what they were using were matchboxes and pens and packets of tissues.
It was completely analog.
And there was no sense at all that this had any relationship to what the final product would be in terms of how it looked.
So it meant that what you were thinking about was, how does it work?
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