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Life of Brian
A brief guide to Brian Eno
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[Eno]
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On the Web | Quotes | Vital statistics
On the Web
Two useful sites compete for the ultimate Eno homepage. EnoWeb'96 boasts more hits and flashier design, but Eno home has its niche with the studious, low-bandwidth fan.
For frames-capable fanatics, Weekly World Eno continuously posts events, sitings ("I almost ran over Brian Eno"), and musings. Occasionally, the Professor himself reports ("I just ate a donut - a glazed jelly donut").
When Eno wants to knock his musicians off the beaten track, he hands them strange, abstract instructions on flashcards. Oblique Strategies offers 127 bits of Eno wisdom (such as "Be dirty" and "A line has two sides"), scripted to pop up randomly and shake you into creativity.
Nerve Net, named after the 1992 album, is a colorful links guide to all sites Eno. The best part is a comic strip of the artist playing with pebbles and cymbals on the beach.
Eno has a vision for the Web. To understand it, and to grasp what Eno means when he goes on about music that grows each time you press play, visit the Sseyo site. There are no graphics here, and you can't hear samples of Generative Music 1 (released in May) - but there is an order form.
There's not a lot of Eno music to be heard on the Web. To download sound bites of him pontificating in QuickTime Audio, however, visit a Dutch zine called Villa.
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[Big Nice Bald Guy]

On the Web | Quotes | Vital statistics
Quotes
He is, for some, the very essence of a postmodern intertextualist. Well, for those of us who know what that means, anyway.

- Evening Standard

I really think it is possible that our grandchildren will look at us in wonder and say: "You mean you used to listen to exactly the same thing over and over again?"

- Brian Eno

Eno's project is to provide the soundtrack, and perhaps even the logic, of 21st-century techno-capitalism; to be chief jingle-writer for the cybernetic society.

- The San Francisco Bay Guardian

ARE you beginning to see what Brian Eno is? He's actually pop culture's very own management guru: the Tom Peters of the digital sampler.... Eno is a global huckster of the most skillfull kind: using art-values to shroud his deeply commercial intent.

- The San Francisco Bay Guardian

I had this long conversation with Bono, who's a brilliant talker and very smart. And I said, "Look, if I work with you, I will want to change lots of things you do. Because I'm not interested in records as a document of a rock band playing on stage. I'm more interested in painting pictures. I want to create a landscape within which this music happens." And so Bono said, "Exactly, that's what we want too."

- Brian Eno (about how he started working with U2)

Only neo-vegetables enjoy using computers the way they are at the moment.... You're just sitting there, and it's quite boring. You've got this stupid little mouse that requires one hand, and your eyes. That's it.... No African would stand for a computer like that.

- Brian Eno

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

- Brian Eno, in A Year with Swollen Appendices

A Few Unthinkable Futures from Eno:
It turns out that nearly all the conspiracy theories you ever heard were actually true - that the world is being run by 150 malevolent men with nasty prejudices. Smoking is proven to be good exercise for the lungs.

- Brian Eno, in a post to The Well

Lucy please be still and hide your madness in a jar,
But do beware, it will follow you, it will follow you.

- Brian Eno, from "Some of Them Are Old" on Here Come the Warm Jets
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[Crucifix]
Image by Brian Eno

On the Web | Quotes | Vital statistics
Vital statistics
Born:
15 May 1948

Early collaborations:
Roxy Music (1972), For Your Pleasure (1973), Pyjamarama (1973)

First solo work:
Here Come the Warm Jets (1973)
Most recent works:
Generative Music 1 (1996), A Year with Swollen Appendices (Faber and Faber, 1996)
Sample collaborators:
Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, David Byrne, John Cale, Devo, Brian Ferry, Robert Fripp, Genesis, Luciano Pavarotti, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, U2
Titles and epithets:
Musician, producer, The Professor, strategist, futurist, The Domed One, the avante-garde Alan Clarke, postmodern intertextualist

Other interests:
Pornography
Dream job:
Minister for the future
Family life:
A wife and two daughters (Irial and Darla)

Référence: http://www.hotwired.com:80/popfeatures/96/23/eno.guide.html

Life of Brian A brief guide to Brian Eno -
Photo © Fotex Shooting Star	On the Web \| Quotes \| Vital statistics On the Web Two useful sites compete for the ultimate Eno homepage. EnoWeb'96 boasts more hits and flashier design, but Eno home has its niche with the studious, low-bandwidth fan. For frames-capable fanatics, Weekly World Eno continuously posts events, sitings ("I almost ran over Brian Eno"), and musings. Occasionally, the Professor himself reports ("I just ate a donut - a glazed jelly donut"). When Eno wants to knock his musicians off the beaten track, he hands them strange, abstract instructions on flashcards. Oblique Strategies offers 127 bits of Eno wisdom (such as "Be dirty" and "A line has two sides"), scripted to pop up randomly and shake you into creativity. Nerve Net, named after the 1992 album, is a colorful links guide to all sites Eno. The best part is a comic strip of the artist playing with pebbles and cymbals on the beach. Eno has a vision for the Web. To understand it, and to grasp what Eno means when he goes on about music that grows each time you press play, visit the Sseyo site. There are no graphics here, and you can't hear samples of Generative Music 1 (released in May) - but there is an order form. There's not a lot of Eno music to be heard on the Web. To download sound bites of him pontificating in QuickTime Audio, however, visit a Dutch zine called Villa. -
	On the Web \| Quotes \| Vital statistics Quotes He is, for some, the very essence of a postmodern intertextualist. Well, for those of us who know what that means, anyway. - Evening Standard I really think it is possible that our grandchildren will look at us in wonder and say: "You mean you used to listen to exactly the same thing over and over again?" - Brian Eno Eno's project is to provide the soundtrack, and perhaps even the logic, of 21st-century techno-capitalism; to be chief jingle-writer for the cybernetic society. - The San Francisco Bay Guardian ARE you beginning to see what Brian Eno is? He's actually pop culture's very own management guru: the Tom Peters of the digital sampler.... Eno is a global huckster of the most skillfull kind: using art-values to shroud his deeply commercial intent. - The San Francisco Bay Guardian I had this long conversation with Bono, who's a brilliant talker and very smart. And I said, "Look, if I work with you, I will want to change lots of things you do. Because I'm not interested in records as a document of a rock band playing on stage. I'm more interested in painting pictures. I want to create a landscape within which this music happens." And so Bono said, "Exactly, that's what we want too." - Brian Eno (about how he started working with U2) Only neo-vegetables enjoy using computers the way they are at the moment.... You're just sitting there, and it's quite boring. You've got this stupid little mouse that requires one hand, and your eyes. That's it.... No African would stand for a computer like that. - Brian Eno Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations. - Brian Eno, in A Year with Swollen Appendices A Few Unthinkable Futures from Eno: It turns out that nearly all the conspiracy theories you ever heard were actually true - that the world is being run by 150 malevolent men with nasty prejudices. Smoking is proven to be good exercise for the lungs. - Brian Eno, in a post to The Well Lucy please be still and hide your madness in a jar, But do beware, it will follow you, it will follow you. - Brian Eno, from "Some of Them Are Old" on Here Come the Warm Jets -
Image by Brian Eno	On the Web \| Quotes \| Vital statistics Vital statistics Born: 15 May 1948 Early collaborations: Roxy Music (1972), For Your Pleasure (1973), Pyjamarama (1973) First solo work: Here Come the Warm Jets (1973) Most recent works: Generative Music 1 (1996), A Year with Swollen Appendices (Faber and Faber, 1996) Sample collaborators: Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, David Byrne, John Cale, Devo, Brian Ferry, Robert Fripp, Genesis, Luciano Pavarotti, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, U2 Titles and epithets: Musician, producer, The Professor, strategist, futurist, The Domed One, the avante-garde Alan Clarke, postmodern intertextualist Other interests: Pornography Dream job: Minister for the future Family life: A wife and two daughters (Irial and Darla)