This honestly just may be one of the tightest, greatest and most sublime interviews i've ever heard. beyond grateful to have discovered this today. two masters in conversation and the chemistry is uncanny. brilliant
I remember that episode of 'Desert Island Discs' and I do remember Eno requesting a 'giant man-eating spider', This was a great interview, too short but great!
Came here by accident, But what an important, entertaining, and I have to say now historical interview from 2004. politics, the internet, optimism on currency, and new political ideas. Loved the bit about taking passing car reg numbers to the library to view books by reg number ( note those who live in a digital silo) and music learning to hear different. lots packed into this interview..
Two people I would never previously have put together, yet perfectly balanced against each. Great interview, you can sense the respect each has for the other.
This was a class interview, really inspiring. Will definitely be trying the oblique library car reg strategy! Another good tactic is to read the introductions of whatever's in the non-fiction new book section to get insights into random fields of enquiry you might not otherwise have thought about. Plus the books are usually nice and pristine which I quite like.
Why couldn't they just have kept going for 3 hours? These 2 venerable gents are both such uniquely interesting artists that more would always be better......I wish Alan or Brian would start doing podcasts with their peers. 🤞
Maybe I was drifting off into sleep but the canned laughter put me in a world where Velma was interviewing Eno in a Scooby Doo episode. Bizarre but brilliant just as I've loved for many years.
There is already a lyric generator out there, as a free VSTi by Xoxos. I found it and lost it. It could generate the most surreal nonsense with ease from its inbuilt thesaurus. The lyrical equivalent of those generative software instruments that Xoxos specialised in. Eno would love it.
great interview. One thing that stuck out, since it was most awful; was Brian's "vision" for the future of civilisation? 19:20 is where it sorta starts, and by quoting Noam Chom you're already off to a poor start, but Brian speaks so enthusiastically about dividing oneself up all over the globe for every aspect of life, to your chosing of course, curteousy of the wonderful world wide web....I wonder if he still holds this view. In my opinion, our loss of physical community and being grounded to your actual surroundings, is one of the biggest issues we face as a species and only seems to be getting worse and more blurred from our view.
Yes, he did. His whole approach to music, using the studio as an instrument has been widely adopted, especially in the world of sound design. He brought his ideas to some of the biggest artists in the world, including David Bowie. His love of "world music," which began inauspiciously on the album Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy. Taken up by Talking Heads, Paul Simon, and many others. Anyone with a looping pedal. Sampling, which he made popular, using tapes of "found sounds." Even in his earliest days as a sound man with Roxy Music he was manipulating what was coming from the speakers, feeding the instruments through a VCS3 synthesiser and tape recorders to create long delays. Of course he was not the first to do these things, but he was the one to bring them into the mainstream of popular music. You would have to go back to the fringe avant garde where these ideas derived from. The Fluxus Group of the mid 1960s, Cornelius Cardew, and musician Terry Riley, who first used the long delay line. "A Rainbow In Curved Air."
it is all ambient. your prejudice for convention is amusing as eno seemed to frustrate the concept of genre normal. as for your "just wallpaper" statement wall paper is a complex pretense covering cracks, structure and workmanship. the repeating pattens on the surface have there own story. the depth to recognize the complexity of layers allows potential that you may still live to appreciate the rest of mr enos work.
