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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You have to pretend that it isn't just an object of commerce.
It's an attempt to build something up by repackaging it in this kind of crust of usually incomprehensible language.
I think some of the worst writing in the world is writing about art, about fine art.
And it ought to be much simpler.
One of the reasons you like it is because it doesn't translate into words.
It doesn't turn into sentences.
It hits you in some other place, some other part of your mind.
I don't really know why that works, but I think it's something to do with the sense of near incoherence of the voice.
It's like somebody trying to say something and it doesn't come out properly.
It's broken, you know, it doesn't come out clearly and straightforwardly.
So there's a sort of...
Either a reticence or a feeling of the machine doesn't work any longer.
The machine that is me speaking isn't quite working.
It's defective in some way.
If you had to name the emotion that that song has, what would you call it?
I mean, for me, there's something melancholy and like a nostalgia for a different future or something, a nostalgia for a future that didn't happen, which isn't sad, but to me, it's a very moving song, actually.
Yes.
When you're making something, it starts to come alive when you start to have feelings that you didn't expect from it.
You think, well, I'm going to make this, that, the other.
And as it starts to form, it starts to change.
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