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Brian Eno

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113 total appearances

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The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

If you think, for instance, about the other pole of ambient music, I always think is heavy metal. So it's another form of immersive music. It's, of course, in terms of feeling quite different from ambient music generally, but I still think it is a kind of ambient music. It's a bath of sound. I've seen heavy metal music being recorded, so I can tell you this.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

If you think, for instance, about the other pole of ambient music, I always think is heavy metal. So it's another form of immersive music. It's, of course, in terms of feeling quite different from ambient music generally, but I still think it is a kind of ambient music. It's a bath of sound. I've seen heavy metal music being recorded, so I can tell you this.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

What really matters is the exact texture of sound, the exact type of distortion, the exact type of compression. I think that's very much what ambient music was built on, the notion that there was this new way of composing.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

What really matters is the exact texture of sound, the exact type of distortion, the exact type of compression. I think that's very much what ambient music was built on, the notion that there was this new way of composing.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

What really matters is the exact texture of sound, the exact type of distortion, the exact type of compression. I think that's very much what ambient music was built on, the notion that there was this new way of composing.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

There's a nice German one. It's probably my favorite and something I think I feel quite often, which is called Turchlusspanik, which means door-shutting panic. So it's that feeling you've got that you're trying to get something done and the door is closing and you're not going to get there quite in time to ever do it. It's a terrible feeling. Brutal.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

There's a nice German one. It's probably my favorite and something I think I feel quite often, which is called Turchlusspanik, which means door-shutting panic. So it's that feeling you've got that you're trying to get something done and the door is closing and you're not going to get there quite in time to ever do it. It's a terrible feeling. Brutal.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

There's a nice German one. It's probably my favorite and something I think I feel quite often, which is called Turchlusspanik, which means door-shutting panic. So it's that feeling you've got that you're trying to get something done and the door is closing and you're not going to get there quite in time to ever do it. It's a terrible feeling. Brutal.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

Yes. The feelings that I think are very, very easy to locate in sound are sort of melancholy and the sparkle of new life. I often hear those things in sound. I have never yet, I don't think, heard anything that captured the feeling of boredom. And I'm disappointed in that because there's a great line in the Tibetan... leader Chögyam Trungpa's book where he said we should

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

Yes. The feelings that I think are very, very easy to locate in sound are sort of melancholy and the sparkle of new life. I often hear those things in sound. I have never yet, I don't think, heard anything that captured the feeling of boredom. And I'm disappointed in that because there's a great line in the Tibetan... leader Chögyam Trungpa's book where he said we should

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

Yes. The feelings that I think are very, very easy to locate in sound are sort of melancholy and the sparkle of new life. I often hear those things in sound. I have never yet, I don't think, heard anything that captured the feeling of boredom. And I'm disappointed in that because there's a great line in the Tibetan... leader Chögyam Trungpa's book where he said we should

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

rush forward into boredom and disappointment. And I've tried to do that, but I don't think I've succeeded yet. I like this idea that those might be places where you can learn something unique. I mean, I do think boredom is very important. If you keep throwing, getting boredom out of the way by distracting yourself with Wordle or

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

rush forward into boredom and disappointment. And I've tried to do that, but I don't think I've succeeded yet. I like this idea that those might be places where you can learn something unique. I mean, I do think boredom is very important. If you keep throwing, getting boredom out of the way by distracting yourself with Wordle or

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

rush forward into boredom and disappointment. And I've tried to do that, but I don't think I've succeeded yet. I like this idea that those might be places where you can learn something unique. I mean, I do think boredom is very important. If you keep throwing, getting boredom out of the way by distracting yourself with Wordle or

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

whatever else you distract yourself with, you lose the possibility of your threshold of interest falling so low that you can notice a tiny thing.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

whatever else you distract yourself with, you lose the possibility of your threshold of interest falling so low that you can notice a tiny thing.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

whatever else you distract yourself with, you lose the possibility of your threshold of interest falling so low that you can notice a tiny thing.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

I try to do things because I want to do them, not because they're just a little tiny bit better than sitting looking at the wall. I really try to now just sit and look at the wall. If you don't provide input...

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

I try to do things because I want to do them, not because they're just a little tiny bit better than sitting looking at the wall. I really try to now just sit and look at the wall. If you don't provide input...

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

I try to do things because I want to do them, not because they're just a little tiny bit better than sitting looking at the wall. I really try to now just sit and look at the wall. If you don't provide input...