Brian Eno

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The Ezra Klein Show · A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno · 3 Oct 2025 podcast

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 most magical thing I could think of, actually.

And I had this obsession with

You could play it backwards, and I just wanted to hear what things would be like if they were played backwards.

Discovering that first of all you can capture sound and make it physical, that was something new for the 20th century.

But then I thought, if you can make it physical, can't you also make it mutate in certain ways?

Can't you make it so the physical medium, for instance, is not reliable?

It will play slightly differently each time.

And so my first experiments in that direction were I had a collection of broken tape recorders, uh, which I just got from junk shops, you know, or thrift stores, as you might say.

And I would

try to break them a little bit more, but so that they would still play things.

So a tape playing through it would

change into something else, you know, it would have a lot of distortion or it would run unevenly like this, you know.

I discovered that if I connected two tape recorders together, put one tape through one and coming out through the other, so that the playback head is separated by several feet from the record head.

You get a very late echo.

And then you can build up those you can work on top of those.

I mean, I discovered this in the sixties.

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