Posts tagged as Brian Eno
The Condition: The Eye That Never Blinks
I’m on the internet again. This is how I begin most days, any day, immediately upon waking pulling the machine against my body. I often sleep with the laptop on the bed beside me waiting, as well the last thing I touched before I stopped and tried to begin drifting off. The strobing eye of my MacBook Pro must be covered so as not to wink and wink its light against my face and keep me up. READ MORE
Get A Good Look At These Awesome Tigers, They're Almost Extinct
Great. The gorgeous, majestic Sumatran tiger is headed for extinction. The video above shows 12 of the remaining 400 of them, playing with leaves and investigating (and at one exciting point, apparently, biting and incapacitating!) a motion-activated video camera the World Wildlife Federation set up in the Bukit Tigapuluh wildlife reserve this past March and April. And this forest—which they obviously like, because it's rare to record so many of the things over such a short period of time—is scheduled to be cleared for paper pulp. (Paper?! No one even uses that stuff anymore!) READ MORE
The Way We Make Music Now
"Very few people take it seriously at all, because they're still convinced by the Microsoft slogan 'Go where your imagination takes you,' or whatever that bloody thing was. The idea that the computer is a completely neutral device that doesn't have a personality of its own and just liberates you to do anything you want—it's complete cock. You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music." READ MORE
Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno: New Albums
It's Bryan Ferry vs. Brian Eno in the battle of Roxy Music founders with new solo records out. I've listened to the new Ferry a couple of times, and it's... fine. It's exactly what you'd expect from a Bryan Ferry solo record. (I do love the way "You Can Dance" cribs its opening from Roxy's "True to Life.") Haven't heard the Eno yet but, really, could it possibly be bad?
The Words Get In David Byrne's Way
In a wide-ranging post that begins with the mention of a collaboration between David Byrne and St. Vincent, Byrne discusses the process of writing with other musicians (including, naturally, Brian Eno). The whole thing is worth your time, but this part jumped out at me. READ MORE
Death Of Uncool
Now that everything is available to all of us at any time, does that mean that the concept of "uncool" is over? Brian Eno thinks that it does, which may bode well for unjustly neglected masterpieces of adequacy such as Peter Wolf's 1987 release Come As You Are. There's hope for all of us!
