Martin Glaubitz wrote:
quoted 8 lines Brian Eno's Music for Airports has a pictogram-ish graphic identified on the> Brian Eno's Music for Airports has a pictogram-ish graphic identified on the
> liner art for each of the 4 tracks...
>
> It looks like they're supposed to be some sort of universal symbolic
> transcription or score of each song, like something NASA would shoot up in
> the deep space probe for extraterrestrial life or something. Or maybe a
> computer printout of the pattern entered into a sequencer for each song. But
> this was 1978; had a computer sequencer been created yet at that time?
It looks to me like he was inspired by the sort of scores "academic" types like
Ligeti and Stockhausen used to write for their electronic pieces.
Andrei
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