On the ever-elastic nature of music, sudden ruptures in the space-time continuum, and why losing things can be liberating.
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Taken from Stylus magazine, Sept. 27, 2004, this article explores in depth Brian Eno’s Ambient recordins from the late-70s, early-80s. Interesting article although I disagree strongly with hi…
Brian Eno, New York, July 29, 1974
Creative Commons image via Wikimedia Commons Artist and music producer Brian Eno wrote one of my very favorite books: A Year with Swollen Appendices, which takes the form of his personal diary of the year 1995 with essayistic chapters (the 'swollen appendices') on topics like 'edge culture,' generative music, new ways of singing, pretension, CD-ROMs (a relevant topic back then), and payment structures for recording artists (a relevant topic again today).
Appropriating its title from Nicolas Roeg’s mid-‘70s masterpiece starring David Bowie, Brian Eno: The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1971-1977, directed by Ed Haynes, also unmistakably asserts that the high points of Eno’s career fell within the stated years. So that includes the first two Roxy Music albums, Eno’s first five solo albums (Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World, Discreet Music, and Before and After Science), his early work with Robert Fripp, and a few other projects. If that weren’t enough, it also includes his “Oblique Strategies” project with Peter Schmidt. There’s little question that this body of work represents a very, very high bar, and it’s certainly an interesting strategy to focus on exclusively the very best section of Eno’s career, leaving out most notably his production work on David Bowie’s “Berlin Trilogy” as well as multiple albums for Talking Heads and U2, DEVO’s first album, and many others. As rock critic George Starostin has written, “If there is anybody in this world who could really penetrate into the very nature of SOUND itself and analyze it with the...
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Brian Eno's original set of handwritten oblique strategies cards designed to break creative impasses made us wonder about making our own...
Aaron Gonsher explores the ups and downs of Brian Eno's work through the lens of four recent reissues that dropped December 2.
“Brian Eno, 2015”
My next working trip abroad happens at the end of March, when I fly to Norway to give a lecture on my work (March 31st) at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts . I'll also spend a day doing studio visits with the students there, something I've only done once before (at SVA in New York two years…
Johnny Thunders 1978 From interviews with William Burroughs and Richard Hell, to in-depth revelations and photographs of the people who helped shape popular culture and music, a new book from photographer Marcia Resnick, Punks, Poets and Provocateurs: New York City BAD BOYS * 1977 - 1982 transports you back to a time when there were no rules. A time before many of Resnick’s subjects too quickly burned out like the bright lights they were. For example, here’s an evocative excerpt (and an image) of David Byrne from Punks, Poets and Provocateurs in which Byrne “predicts the future” back in 1977. It was taken from an interview Byrne did with Traveler’s Digest in which he made a total of 46 predictions about the future. The following ten turned out to be rather unfortunately, spot-on. David Byrne, late 70s, early 80s In the future, half of us will be “mentally ill” In the future, water will be expensive In the future, everyone’s house will be like a little fortress In the future, there will be mini-wars going on everywhere In the future, people will constantly be having plastic surgery altering their features many times during their lifetime In the future there will...
Brian Eno with Carol McNicoll (then-future designer of some of his Roxy Music costumes), London circa 1968
One of music's most innovative thinkers gives RS a rare tour of his studio and creative process
