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You have to find out how you can fuck up new technologies.

item — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:52:19 -0800

Tackling everything from Abba to the Velvet Underground, Brian Eno reveals his insights into popular music in this 81 minute talk at a music academy sponsored by a popular sugar-and-caffeine-infused drink. "During a fascinating conversation at the Red Bull Music Academy, Brian Eno discusses the East Coast premiere of his audio-visual installation, 77 Million Paintings, and discusses everything from why people are afraid of Abba to what made the Velvet Underground 'niche'."

Jazz that nobody asked for, an animated short film

filthy light thief — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:06:36 -0800

Sometimes you want to be somber, or serious, or just enjoy some peace and quiet. And in some of those instances, you get jazz that nobody asked for. Jazz that just won't die. The jazz in question is Quaker City Jazz, by Jan Savitt (born Jacob Savetnick) and his Top Hatters Orchestra. More information about the story behind the short at the jazz movie.com, including the credit for the title to a genre of Brian Eno's own conception, as noted in On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times Of Brian Eno.

Obscure Records at Ubuweb

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:51:50 -0800

Obscure Records was a U.K. record label which existed from 1975 to 1978. It was created and run by Brian Eno, who also produced the albums (credited as executive producer in one instance). Ten albums were issued in the series. All ten are available for your listening pleasure at Ubuweb.

This post is just in time for the annual spaghetti harvest.

zarq — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:28:43 -0800

In the late 1970s the UK's Anglia Television ran a respected weekly documentary series: Science Report. But when the show was cancelled in 1977, the producers decided to channel Orson Welles in their final episode. The result was Alternative 3. Over the course of the hour, the audience would learn that a Science Report investigation into the UK "brain drain" had uncovered shocking revelations: man-made pollution had resulted in catastrophic climate change, the Earth would soon be rendered uninhabitable, and a secret American / Soviet joint plan was in place to establish colonies on the Moon and Mars. The show ended with footage of a US/Soviet Mars landing from May 22, 1962. After Alternative 3 aired, thousands of panicked viewers phoned the production company and demanded to know how long they had left to change planets. Background * WFMU * Museum of Hoaxes * Mental Floss * Wikipedia Conspiracy Theorists Who Claim It's All True * ZetaTalk * Above Top Secret * Thule.org * Bibliotecapleyades Alternate Video Link * Google Video The Book "Alternative 3" was written and published by Leslie Watkins. Free download in multiple formats from archive.org.

My Life in the Bush Of Ghosts - Pre-release Version

xod — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:48:40 -0800

[This] "is a pre release version of david byrnes first solo album, which was given me by david, when i stayed at his place in alfabet city, in 1981 [...] anyway, the final release differed a lot from this tape, because he used quotes from the quoran in this version, which he had to replace later. i dont know if this version was ever released in any way, shape or form." My Life in the Bush Of Ghosts, David Byrne and Brian Eno

"...I want to make a kind of music that had the Long Now and the Big Here..."

Neilopolis — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:24:40 -0800

Imaginary Landscapes (1989): a visually hypnotic and impressionistic portrait of musician Brian Eno, directed by Duncan Ward and Gabriella Cardazzo. (40 mins.)

Technology is the name we give to things that don’t work yet

Sebmojo — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:20:23 -0800

Brian Eno on technology and music.

"Another Green World" - Brian Eno BBC documentary

item — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:56:34 -0800

Earlier this year, the BBC's Arena produced and aired an excellent documentary on Brian Eno entitled "Another Green World" containing "a series of conversations on science, art, systems analysis, producing and cybernetics". Watch it here 2 3 and/or download it here.

A Brief History of Mathematics

Kattullus — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:17:18 -0800

A Brief History of Mathematics is a BBC series of ten fifteen-minute podcasts by Professor Marcus du Sautoy about the history of mathematics from Newton and Leibniz to Nicolas Bourbaki, the pseudonym of a group of French 20th Century mathematicians. Among those covered by Professor du Sautoy are Euler, Fourier and Poincaré. The podcasts also include short interviews with people such as Brian Eno and Roger Penrose.

Brian Eno: The Dick Flash Interview (SLYT)

bunglin jones — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:45:31 -0800

You love playing with what somebody else is playing as much as you like playing with yourself. Dick Flash from Pork Magazine interviews Brian Eno about music, copyright and the collaborative process. (SLYT) Previous Eno

Make Music Anywhere

Stark — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:51:45 -0800

Pocket music apps are letting composers and artists create music anywhere - and they're developing fast. Simple keyboard apps with great sounds were created early on, like Virtuoso or Musical. The interfaces on many smartphones lead to more unusual composition tools like TonePad, a grid of notes that continually loop and give rise to unexpected melodies, and Bloom / Air, two generative music apps by Brian Eno. The availability of microphones resulted in new instruments being created, the most notable being Ocarina - a flute-like device, as well as toys like RjDj (previously) that resamples ambient sound to give a unique soundtrack. Nanostudio is pushing the boundaries further by creating a full Digital Audio Workstation. It crams an astonishing level of functionality into a small package, providing creators with a four-track synthesizer, drum machines, sequencer, mixer and sampler. While this may not yet have the flexibility and power of desktop applications like Reason or Fruity Loops, it can act as a musical notepad allowing creators to note a melody or sequence on the go, then build it up with beats and bass. Similar tools like SynthStation, iElectribe and bleep!BOX make the future of portable music creation pretty exciting.

``Diabolus in musica''

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:50:04 -0800

Who's the man behind the sounds you hear, every time you startup and use your Mac? Jim Reekes (via)

"I thought it would be interesting to write music for public spaces..." - Brian Eno

Unicorn on the cob — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:08:31 -0800

Music For Real Airports is a multimedia art project collaboration between interactive artists Human and musicians The Black Dog. With the project set to launch April 24, 2010 at the Sensoria festival of music and film, the project recalls Brian Eno's 1978 work, Ambient 1: Music for Airports. Eno, who is often credited with coining the term "ambient music," discusses his original inspiration in the Koln airport: to provide music which didn't interfere with human communication, but could endure for long periods of time in public spaces and easily interrupted without causing suffering for the listener. This Music for Airports LP, long considered to be the first long-playing ambient record, has provided the soundtrack for many film meditations: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on. Recordings of The Black Dog's Music For Real Airports will be available on some combination of vinyl and CD shortly after its debut at the Millenium Galleries, with a tour of gallery spaces and live performances to be announced shortly. Brian Eno: Previously. Previously. Previously.

Ambient

Artw — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:14:35 -0800

On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno

The sonic experiences of Low Light Mixes

colinmarshall — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:53:20 -0800

Dave of Low Light Mixes spins together all manner of textural musical goodness into solid, themed sonic experiences. Component parts include but are not limited to ambient, jazz, "jazz", noise, field recordings and one hell of a lot of Brian Eno.

Acute Mystery

yiftach — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:52:10 -0800

Fact: In 1975, musician, producer, and all-around interesting guy Brian Eno (previously, pre-previously) co-created (with Peter Schmidt) the Oblique Strategies cards.
Fact: In August 2008, Oblique_Chirps appeared via Twitter, providing Oblique Strategies-like aphorisms hourly. (via)
Fact: Brian Eno has his own Twitter feed, featuring similarly cryptic updates (as well as differently cryptic updates and the odd political aside), dating back to Oct. 2008.
Fact: Some of the entries are seemingly identical (down to the odd space inserted in the word "straight").
Mystery: Is Eno aware of/involved with the Chirps feed?

Ambient

Artw — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:29:02 -0800

Brian Eno brings generative music to the iPhone.

Brian Eno: A Sandbox In Alphaville

GalaxieFiveHundred — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:43:47 -0800

Lester Bangs on Brian Eno Expanding on an article he'd written for Musician magazine, Lester Bangs decided to expand and expound on the curious subject that is art-rock legend Brian Eno. Including not just an overview of Eno's life and recording career, Bangs did extensive interviews with Eno also, accompanying him to shows and recording sessions. This work was meant to be a chapter in a book mirroring AB Spellman's Four Lives In the Bebop Business, focusing on other artists such as Marianne Faithful, Danny Fields and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. The tentative title for the book was Beyond the Law: Four Rock 'n' Roll Extremists. Sadly, the book itself was never completed though the chapter on Eno was finished around 1979/1980. Never published until now (though pieces of it appeared in a Musician article he did in '79), this through examination of Eno's work during the '70's is a (dare I say) lost treasure that shouldn't be buried or lost.

Eno-a-go-go

GrammarMoses — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:41:04 -0800

Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings video installation has been shown in Venice, Milan and (last week) San Francisco, but you can have the experience right in your own living room with his new(ish) DVD or on Second Life. “The painting is generated from handmade slides that are randomly combined by the computer…. The selection of elements and their duration in the piece are arbitrarily chosen, forming a virtually infinite number of variations… Millions of Brian Eno originals will be created and then disappear only to be replaced by millions more.” (Eno's generative programming has been previously mentioned in this space.)

Very Slowly

roll truck roll — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:00:09 -0800

"To play this motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities." Erik Satie's Vexations (previously) was more-or-less disregarded as an unperformable thought experiment, until John Cage staged an eighteen-hour performance in 1963. The event cemented Satie's importance in avant-garde music and his influence on a generation of artists. In 2006, several musicians and artists performed their own renditions.

Who's Gonna Love You When Your Looks Are Gone?

eustacescrubb — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:43:49 -0800

Brian Eno is the godfather of electronica, the inventor of ambient music, and producer of the best work by bands like the Talking Heads and U2. Tchad Blake has helmed the mixing board for Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Soul Coughing and the Bad Plus, to name just a few. Paul Simon is one of the most recognized names in pop music both for his work with Art Garfunkel and for his fusion of American pop music with African and South American music. Surprise is the the album they collaborated on, the new Paul Simon record featuring Eno's signature sonic landscapes all over it, and the entire lovely thing, complete with liner notes, is available to listen to on Simon's website.

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts released with CC license.

dobbs — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:36:01 -0800

Brian Eno and David Byrne released My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in 1981. It's a great album--and now it's available with a Creative Commons License. "This is the first time complete and total access to original tracks with remix and sampling possibilities have been officially offered on line."

Here Comes The Warm Gist

yakcat01 — Wed, 11 May 2005 08:38:28 -0800

Brian Eno has a new vocal album coming out soon on Ryodisk. He's also been busy agitating for the Liberal Democrats in the recent UK elections, planning an upcoming collaboration with Paul Simon, and chatting amiably with a comic warlock.

The Portsmouth Sinfonia to return?

scaryduck — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 04:50:48 -0800

The Portsmouth Sinfonia to return? In 1974, Gavin Bryars rounded up a group of novices and enthusiastic amateurs, called them the Portsmouth Sinfonia and let them loose in a recording studio. The result: some of the most disturbing classical music ever committed to tape. Intrigued by the concept, the legendary Brian Eno signed up and played clarinet for the orchestra, adding a certain star cachet to the cacophony. On the back of sympathetic TV coverage, there followed a now-legendary concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. Thirty years later, there are plans to release Portsmouth Sinfonia's output on compact disc by way of celebration. A brazen attempt for quck laughs and publicity, a serious exploration of entropy in the musical medium, or simply an early entry in the torture tape experiment?

The passage of time is flicking dimly up on the screen

Blue Stone — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:35:04 -0800

An entertaining talk on long term thinking, by Brian Eno.