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 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 m help us make things that looked like they might be good buildings.
But he said, in the end, we went back and I I went to visit him one day when they were working on a a big new complex for some place in Texas.
And what they were using were matchboxes and pens and packets of tissues.
Um, it was completely analogue.
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?
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 shall we have on the building, or what kind of colour should the stone be?
And when I see people fiddling around with um
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.
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