Zwei Fundstücke: 1. Brian Eno im Gespräch mit The Guardian (23.01.2017)
So what is Brian Eno working on at the moment, I ask. “I’m interested in the idea of generative music as a sort of model for how society or politics could work. I’m working out the ideas I’m interested in, about how you make a working society rather than a dysfunctional one like the one we live in at the moment – by trying to make music in a new way. I’m trying to see what kinds of models and and structures make the music I want to hear, and then I’m finding it’s not a bad idea to try to think about making societies in that way.”
Could he be more specific? “Yes. If you think of the classical picture of how things were organised in an orchestra – where you have the composer, conductor, leader of the orchestra, section principals, section sub principals, rank and file – the flow of information is always downwards. The guy at the bottom doesn’t get to talk to that guy at the top. Almost none of us now would think that hierarchic model of social organisation, the pyramid, is a good way to arrange things.”
In other words, he says, society should be built on the more egalitarian model of a folk or rock band, who just get together and do their thing, rather than a classical orchestra. “Can’t you see,” he says with the passion of a visionary, “if you transpose that argument into social terms, it’s the argument between the top down and bottom up? It is possible to have a society that doesn’t have pre-existing rules and structures. And you can use the social structures of bands, theatre groups, dance groups, all the things we now call culture. You can say: ‘Well, it works here. Why shouldn’t it work elsewhere?’”
2. Brian Eno – Ten of the Best
Am 25.01.2017 erschien im The Guardian ein Artikel über Brian Eno, Titel: Brian Eno – Ten Of The Best. Die 10 ausgewählten Stücke sind nun nicht als Hitparade wahrzunehmen, sie sind einfach nur chronologisch geordnet, aber immerhin, die Musikabteilung des Guardian ist der Meinung, das wären die 10 herausragenden Platten oder Musikstücke von Brian Eno (bzw. unter seiner Mitwirkung entstanden).
- Roxy Music: Ladytron (Roxy Music 1972) (Eno had been asked by Bryan Ferry to make some sounds that called to mind the moon landings)
- Brian Eno: Needles In The Camel´s Eye (Here Come the Warm Jets 1973)
- The Big Ship (Another Green World 1975)
- Harmonia & Eno ´76 Welcome (1976)
- David Bowie/Eno: Warszawa (Bowie/Eno: Low 1976)
- Julie with … (Before and After Science 1977)
- An Ending (Ascent) (Apollo1983) (Eines meiner Lieblingsstücke von Brian Eno)
- Thursday Afternoon (1985) (In sound, this 60-minute composition is very much the child of Ambient 1: Music for Airports’ 1/1, a track based on a looped figure played on the piano by Robert Wyatt)
- Eno & Hyde: Cells and Bells (2014)
- Fickle Sun (iii) I´m set free (The Ship 2016) (Was für ein Meisterwerk!)