I often work by avoidance.
BRIAN ENOAmbient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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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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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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