Brian Eno
speaker
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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What do we want it to be like to be in that place?
You started asking the important questions again, not what kind of facing should we have on the building or
What kind of color should the stone be?
And when I see people fiddling around with synthesizers, this has always been a problem with synthesizers, that they always come with a bank of sounds ready-made for people who don't want to learn how to program them, which it turns out is most people.
I remember talking to Yamaha once, who produced the most successful synthesizer of all time, which was the DX7.
And I said, you know, you should really make these a little bit easier to program.
And they said, well, we don't bother because nobody tries to change them anyway.
We often get them back for repair and we can tell if somebody's tried to change the programming and nobody's ever done it.
They've just used the presets.
And
That seems to me a kind of mental laziness that I really don't think fits well with making new things.
Yes.
I think the thing that really impressed me about Cage was not his music, which I didn't particularly care for after the 1940s, but his idea that being a composer was a kind of a practice in the sense of a religious or a spiritual or a philosophical practice.
And I thought, that's the kind of artist I want to be.
I want to have a practice.
I want there to be resonances into other parts of my thinking.
I don't want it to just be something that I do on the weekends and then forget about.
So Cage with his book Silence was very important for me.
That came along at just the right time for me.
David Bowie.
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