On 19 Aug 97, Random Junk wrote:
quoted 3 lines one of my all time favorite ambient CDs is "thursday afternoon" by> one of my all time favorite ambient CDs is "thursday afternoon" by
> brian eno, which was made by setting up a few tape loops and
> letting them run for 60 minutes.
Interesting you should raise this : about a month ago I played my
husband (who owns a recording studio and has *all* the toys) "Base
and Apex" off Brian Eno's _After the Heat_ ... one of *my* all time
faves. After literally 2 minutes he asked me to switch it off,
because it 'bored him senseless' and he damned it as not being music
and stated "If you give me five minutes with a sequencer, I can do
that too".
But the point is : HE DIDN'T (otherwise he'd be Eno...).
quoted 2 lines the fact that he didn't "do anything" for 60 minutes does not> the fact that he didn't "do anything" for 60 minutes does not
> reduce or negate the quality of the product.
Well - this is precisely the point to be argued. For me the mood
induced by the loops and layers was sufficiently pleasing, without
analysing their every origin. But maybe that's the difference
between someone who works with the machines and somebody who just
enjoys the end result.
By the same token, he cannot watch a movie and relax : he's
constantly deconstructing the dolby stereo mix, the various SFX etc.
I
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"Incomplete without surface noise"
- Autechre