Most game music is based on loops effectively.
BRIAN ENOI had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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