Listening to the lack of sustenance the lack of control and the total surrender is an amazing experience. The above quotes all truly reflect Brian’s philosophy and his work.Īs a listener Brian’s music tends to leave as profound of an impression as his philosophies and his teachings do. Perfection is characterless-ness…Simple systems can produce complex results…You don’t need complexity to produce complexity” (Roedelius, 2012). It’s a beautiful and uncomplicated ambient piece of music that is as thought inspiring as it is simple. The track is just five different sighs recorded at different pitches and cut and looped so that they never repeat (Tamm, 1995). Removing layers instead of adding them he peels sound away to reveal its essence.Ī perfect example of this is track 2 on Music for Airports, “2/1”. Brian creates music like a painter creating abstract art. Seemingly having an over average grasp of the human brain and how it processes information. Regardless of his perspectives he managed to pioneer a whole genre of music where he found the solace providing escape to the daily entrapments of the mind.įrom his early synthesizer experiments with the group Roxy Music, to his recent venture into the hybrid art of light and music “77 Million Paintings”, Brian Eno has found the science behind composition. They are ways to surrender” (Dunhill, 2013). To him “Sex, drugs, art and religion are ways of losing yourself. This may be in part related to his education in the arts or perhaps because of his unique perspective of what music and art are. “Music comes alive to me when it becomes a place” (Roedelius, 2012). It seems that for Brian creating music is about creating spaces. Cowboys go out and find new territories farmers cultivate what has already been found (Dunhill, 2013). He likens musicians to fall into one of two different groups. Brian Eno is “the father of rock, the creator of ambient music and the sonic facilitator for best selling albums by the likes of David Bowie, U2 and Coldplay” (Mathieson, 2011).
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The influence that Brian Eno has had on music is far-reaching and deep, and still in full effect. one involving memory.”īrian Eno is far from mentally handicapped. By definition an “Idiot Savant” is “a person who is considered to be mentally handicapped but displays brilliance in a specific area, esp. At first I raised a doubting eyebrow to the statement but the more I studied Brian Eno and his methods the more accurate that statement became. But believe it or not that is a direct quote from Brian Eno himself (Tamm, 1995).