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Re: [microsound] Brain Can Generate Unexplained Noise In Ears
>>Brian Eno's thoughts about furniture music
>
> "Furniture music"(musique d'ameublement) was Erik Satie's notion, circa
> 1920:
>
> "We want to establish a music designed to satisfy 'useful' needs. Art
> has no part in such needs. Furniture music creates a vibration; is has
> no other goal; it fills the same role as light and heat - as
> comfort in every form...Furniture music for law offices, banks, etc.
> No marriage ceremony complete without furniture music...Do not enter a
> house which does not have furniture music."
Oh... I thought some of Eno's thoughts concerning his Discrete Music album
and Ambient series was called furniture music by him. I'm probably mixing
up what has been said because I don't know a great deal about this
(obviously).
::martin friberg
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