Re: [microsound] eno: wired or tired?

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 10/27/01 8:27 AM, anechoic at kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

 -haven't read the article yet. I have a comment or two before I forget.

   As much as I like some of his tunes, I have never considered Eno much of
an authority figure. I have seen him as someone who executes what most
people are too lazy to do( looping two tape-recorders together, turning a
television on it's side, and so on).

  I have also had a couple of bad experiences(at parties) with individuals
wanting to destroy things( breaking up furniture,) in the name of 'Eno':
that really isn't fair on him, is it?
 
  One thing I learned from him (perhaps indirectly- from people who have
worked with- and criticized  him) is that everyone else in the studio can
say you suck, you're ugly, you can't play the keyboard : the engineers can
be yawning their heads off , all their friends can agree, and that piece can
be the highlight of ones career- people can go into raptures over it ,
lucrative etc. . the event, the appearance can be a thing of beauty.

  
> "I don't think
> (computer-reliant producers)
> are aware of what particularly
> stilted music they make. You
> can't do anything interesting
> with cutting-edge technology
> except not make it
> cutting-edge."
> - Brian Eno, the electronic and
> ambient music pioneer, on
> why today's computer-crafted
> tunes are lame.
> 
> http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,47670,00.html
>