Here Come the Warm Pets
Can’t really top rocketsandraygun’s tagline.
Music for Films (1976)
The Album Covers of Brian Eno, by Geeta Dayal
“Geeta Dayal, author of the new book about the making of Another Green World, offers ten of her favorite Eno album covers of all time.”
In modern recording one of the biggest problems is that you’re in a world of endless possibilities. So I try to close down possibilities early on. I limit choices. I confine people to a small area of manoeuvre. There’s a reason that guitar players invariably produce more interesting music than synthesizer players: you can go through the options on a guitar in about a minute, after that you have to start making aesthetic and stylistic decisions. This computer can contain a thousand synths, each with a thousand sounds. I try to provide constraints for people.
Brian Eno (via austinkleon) (via rocketsandrayguns)
Timelapse - Los Angeles Wildfire, by Dan Blank. Set to Brian Eno’s “The Big Ship”, off the album Another Green World.
Air
A new iPhone app by Sandra O’Neill and Bloom co-creator Peter Chilvers. Similar to Bloom, this uses generative music principles and vocal/piano samples. Eno says: “Air is like ‘Music for Airports’ made endless — which is how I always wanted it to be.”
How Brian Eno Helped Travelers Check Their Emotional Baggage
A light and short 2007 piece from the Washington Post on Brian Eno’s Music for Airports.
David Byrne and Brian Eno, date unknown.
Singing: The Key To A Long Life
Brian Eno’s contribution to NPR’s “This I Believe” series.
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness and a better sense of humor. A recent long-term study conducted in Scandinavia sought to discover which activities related to a healthy and happy later life. Three stood out: camping, dancing and singing.
Via enoweb: “Eno in Mad City”, a 1981 comic strip by Alex Blair and Bruce Carleton. Click to view the whole thing (though be warned; it’s a giant honking image, about 800x1600 pixels).
