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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one of the most committed artists I've ever worked with in the sense that he really thought about what he was doing.
Just to tell you a short story, I remember being in the studio with him.
He was doing a vocal on one of the songs.
I can't remember the song.
So he does the vocal and he comes back into the control room
listening back to, he says, it's a bit lumberjack, isn't it?
And I knew exactly what he meant.
And he said, I think the guy should sound a little bit more nervous, like he's working in an office and he hasn't been there very long and doesn't quite know how you're supposed to behave in the office.
Then he goes back out and does this other vocal.
And suddenly you hear the transition from this confident,
strong hairy macho guy to somebody who's a little bit timid and has doesn't quite know whether he should be saying the things he's saying and seeing him fine-tune that was very impressive steve reich well steve reich was a very important part of my listening because he made a piece called it's gonna rain that opened a door for me
And the door it opened was not just to do with the way in which he made it, which was itself very impressive, using an absolute minimum of material, 0.8 seconds of material, I think it was.
That piece works by making your brain behave in a certain way.
You are not an inactive listener in that.
All of his work, I think, depends on making your brain perform and watch itself performing in a certain way.
So I suddenly thought then, oh, the composer isn't just Steve Reich.
It's Steve Reich and my brain that's making this composition what it is.
And that thought never left me that...
You actually are engaging the technology of the listener's brain to complete the piece.
They're not passive.
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