How Brian Eno Made Music for Airports
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
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0:00 Intro
1:42 The Background of Music for Airports
4:23 Generative Music
6:50 The Function of Ambient Music
8:25 End
References:
A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary by Brian Eno
reverbmachine.com/blog/decons...
#brianeno #ambientmusic #roxymusic #talkingheads #stevereich #ambient #midjourney #ai #dalle2 #gpt3 #stablediffusion #generativemusic
Related acts: Roxy Music, Devo, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Robert Fripp, u2, Terry Riley, Phil Spector, AI Music, Warp records, Another Green World, Here Come the Warm Jets, Steve Reich, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Radiohead, John Cage, AI music, midjourney, Discreet Music, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, Music for Films, Ambient 4: On Land, Harold Budd, Thursday Afternoon, Before and After Science
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Have you listened to this album at the airport yet?🤣🤣🤣
Almost every time I'm in an airport, I'm listening to it. Enjoyed your video.
One of my all time favourite albums. Absolutely holds up to repeated listening.
Music for Films and Apollo are also highly recommended.
@@mrlovegrove3327 I would add Thursday Afternoon, as well. All amazing.
This album has helped me deal with my anxieties so well. When I'm anxious or high-strung, or irritated at work, I listen to a few minutes of it and it brings me to my senses.
I can relate to that! Glad Eno been of help to you!!
I love Brian Eno. My favorite album is Another Green World. Keep the videos coming!
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I'll come running to tie your shoes...
My two favorite Brian Eno accomplishments:
1- the album My life in the bush of ghosts; a collaboration with David Byrne. They put music on different oral items like talk radio host, a call to prayer, an exorcism. It’s from the early 80s and it’s been a favorite of mine since then.
2- the second thing is not music, but a set of cards; oblique strategy. When you’re stuck in a creative process, you pick a card and do what it says, in order to help you have a different perspective on your project, and therefore get unstuck.
So glad you mentioned “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”; an outstanding album. If you can, try reading the book that inspired it, as that is also something to experience, and offers insight into the album as well.
I think this approach is used in the writing process also. I can see how it is very beneficial.
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@@StellasEncounter you’re absolutely right. I actually learn about in a masterclass by British author Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell) He’s a big Brian Eno fan.
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Fantastic analysis and presentation Stella. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for the kind words.
I promise I am trying to keep it up!
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Yessss, Eno-heads rejoice
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I don't know much about Brian Eno, so I learned a lot from this video. You brought up some interesting things that I need to think about (maybe while listening to 'Music for Airports' 😋). Thank you Stella!! ✈
I really am glad.
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@@StellasEncounter Sure thing, I always enjoy watching your videos. Hope you have a great weekend as well! 🤘
I like Music for Airports but I LOVE Atmospheres and Soundtracks
ha, completely valid, and understandable.
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Hi Stella. Thanks for covering such an important album. Love your enthusiasm and keep up the good work 😊
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Happy Lunar New year/Spring Festival if you celebrate, and/or have a great weekend if you don't!
@@StellasEncounter Aw that’s so lovely. I will. And all the very best to you too x 😊
So nice to see young people appreciating Eno's music. You have such a nice energy emanating from you. :-)
Very kind of you to say so. Thank you.
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Another interesting and hard to ignore video ! Thanks, Stella - Happy Lunar New Year.
I think it's chuc mung nam moi for you!
Best wishes for the Year of the Cat (not Rabbit).
@@StellasEncounter and best wishes for your Year of the Rabbit.
i'm a 70's bub so grew up on Eno..Just love him. And yes My life in the bush of ghosts was a fav of my mums.
Great video as usual, and good to see you cover Brian Eno. He’s been a favourite artist of mine for a very long time. Favourite album is a very difficult choice, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Plateaux of Mirror with Harold Budd, Before and After Science and On Land are all up there though. I guess my favourite at any time depends on my mood, that’s true for any genre of music I think.
I think that really is the only answer, our mood at the time dictates how we percieve and therefore experience.
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Good overview, Stella, and I love your energy and your hilarious asides. Brian Eno has long been one of my favourites. Music For Airports is my number one go to album when I need to de-stress and give my mind space to clear and think. I also love the dark richness of Ambient 4: On Land and the spacey, floating feeling of Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. The fragile minimalism that hides a deep complexity on The Pearl, which he did with Harold Budd, is also extraordinary. Eno has collaborated with another of my favourite artists, Jon Hassell. It would be interesting to hear your take on him in a video. Anyway, keep the good work; your videos are well informed and insightful!
I won't promise a date, but I agree a treatment of Hassell would be a an interesting project and I imagine well received if I can do justice to him and his body of work.
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Its very well appreciated.
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@@StellasEncounter I'm sure you could do justice to Jon Hassell's work, if your other videos are any indication. Thanks for considering my suggestion!
The year is 1993 . No digital sales of music, no downloading. Most people bought music in a store. I heard about this album, and went to get it. They said they didn’t have it in stock, but would order it ( on cassette!) and let me know when it got there. 8 WEEKS LATER, I got a call.. “Music for Airports is here”..😮 went and got it… totally worth the wait…
hahaha thanks for sharing the story, precious.
Thats all his music is good for! ;)
Love is the Drug
It's certainly one!
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When asked what is my favourite album, I always say Brian Eno's Music for Airports (I purchased it when I was eight years old). Years ago, there was an art installation at an airport, Chicago O'Hare. I don't know how many hours and how many days I spent there listening, and watching. The music, and the visuals, the art, has deep resonant effects, on those who can perceive them.The installation was by Brian Eno. The music was Music for Airports.
As I've said before, Music for Airports works quite well in a Metro station in Paris, as well.
I have all of Eno's albums. He is wonderful. Thank you, Stella! What have I done with my life! :)
hahahaha
I reassure myself with a phrase/advice from an old friend.
When the destination is the same, all routes are valid.
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@@StellasEncounter Happy Birthday, Stella! I hope any route you take today is more than valid; it is a smile.😺😊
@@RinnRuannan Thank you!!😄😄Happy Birthday to you as well :)
Nicely done. Brian Eno looks great in purple, I must say. Cool to mention Steve Reich, I remember playing “It’s Gonna Rain” and driving my room-mates crazy. Also, I was going to suggest Bang On A Can’s cover album of Music For Airports and I believe you showed them playing briefly. The AI aside was interesting, that faux-R.E.M. artwork DOES look like an old R.E.M. album. We’re trying to get ChatGPT to help us with our new release title! And thanks for inspiring me to listen to a ton of Eno’s ambient works because it had been awhile. Made me think of Stars of the Lid. And I have to say, the end of your videos have me cracking up.
Thanks for the positive feedback, it's well received.
I haven't gotten on to ChatGPT, it's still quite limited and over-subscribed at the minute. I'd like to use it to help with research and scripting because I am lazy!
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The day my father died (just over ten years ago) I made the whole journey from my workplace to the hospital where he was hospitalized with "1/1" in mind, while I kept repeating in my head "Dad, wait for me.. . ".
Arriving at the intensive care unit I found my mother in front of my father and after about 5 minutes the monitor gave the alarm; my father was gone forever.
Since then every time I listen to "Music for Airports" I relive that bad day like it's a movie.
That an intense experience, and I can understand the resonance.
I'm sorry it has that association for you.
Hi Stella 🌞 ! - I enjoyed all the creativity you put into the video. Love the R.E.M. record cover & Stella Artois 🍺 ( Stella is my favorite lager ) in London. The album Eno did with Harold Budd " The Pearl " is one of my favorites of the 80's .. so quiet & atmospheric. Harold also worked with The Cocteau Twins on the lovely The Moon & The Melodies. Eno is awesome 👌 doing Remain In Light By Day with Talking Heads & My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by night with David Byrne which is my second favorite of his albums. Have a wonderful evening 🌙
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It's interesting that you mention Midjourney here, because I think that some of the most interesting AI art ive seen has a similar philosophy to a lot of ambient music, especially the more hands off approach of letting chaos unfold in a way that winds up beautiful.
Bravo, Stella!!
You are so joyfully enthusiastic, knowlegable and diverse in your (Music) Encounter series. Hot Stuff, Baby!!
Starting out with Brian Ferry's Roxy Music was HUGE, especially popular in UK, a bit in US with 'Love Is The Drug'.
Eno's Electro-Punk sounding 'Baby's On Fire', played on KTRU Rice University underground radio station in Houston back in about 1976, was def his breakout session. Playing with Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera on guitar and crew, Eno contributed as a writer, and his personalized 'Mood Setting' style really came to the forefront, 'Somber Reptiles' being Subminimally Superb. Excellent (yet not 'Pop" ular in US) instrumental collaborations continued with Latin Beat oriented and Venezuala based Manzanera to Rock Latin America. Fair, David Byrne & Eno RULE.
A Real Pioneer, Brian Eno eventually morphed into the Outer Stratosphere of The Inner Ear Ohm with his trademark Ambient Excellence! 🎧🔊
I am a fan of Roxy Music, and I am awre that they were successful in the UK, and I think rightly so!
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Windows 95 on an original Mac. Love it. LOL
Hey Stella, nice video! Regarding your comments toward the end about enjoying transitory/liminal locations encountered during travel, I would highly recommend checking out some music by the modern ambient artist Celer.
He weaves together highly emotional drone music and field recordings taken during travel in a way I find quite profound - his catalog is absolutely massive but I recommend checking out the albums Xièxie and Tempelhof first since they best represent that kind of sound :)
Hell yes
I agree!
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Brian Eno is one of the most brilliant persons in the music world. Read his stuff or watch him talking on CZcams; he is a true genius.
His “Thursday Afternoon” works well as a sound texture when I am working.
Hi Eric
I agree, Eno's work really does serve brilliantl in the role of "audio wallpaper".
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You Did your homework. Another Green World continues to be my favorite.
Thank you, I do try not to half-ass it. I think it would be unfair to the artists, and to the kind people who watch the channel.
AGW is great, I agree.
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Friend of mine is a HUGE Brian Eno fan. This was a nice treat to learn more. And now you’ve got me curious about AI image creators lol.
I'm glad you enjoyed it and yeah, midjourney is great fun.
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Thank you, Stellar Stella - Brian is indeed a fascinating figure - multi-talented. He also recharged Bowie's career in Berlin, with Iggy Pop.
BTW - I also have had fun with midjourney, stable diffusion, chatgpt3 creating art, montages, stories, etc - crazy. I was CTO of an AI startup in Montreal a few years ago and I remember a journalist asking me what I thought would jumpstart AI to critical mass adoption, and I replied, "GANS - Generative Networks, but we'd need massive datasets - it happened faster than I had predicted... :)
The pace of change really is astonshing, you predicted well.
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I Honestly Don't Remember Hearing Music At My Airport, In Orlando Maybe But Yet Again I've Only Flown Twice. Still Interesting Video Though 🙂
I am surprised that any airport doesn't have some bg music, especially not a major one such as Orlando (I think) is.
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Likewise 😊
neat video! Music for Airports and My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts are both in my desert island, top ten, what's in my bag lists. I know it's a bit morbid to say but the first track of Music for Airports is what I want played at my funeral. His most recent album for ever and ever no more is also excellent, best thing he's done in quite a long time. Plus his daughter sings on it which is awesome.
and lol, missing pink head band.
:D
Music to be played at a funeral is a very difficult category, so I think its incredibly high praise.
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@@StellasEncounter thanks, I will, and same to your funky bad self!
“Music For Airports” was a huge influence in my musical upbringing. I’ve been playing ambient/experimental guitar since the mid-1990’s. Check out the Austin, Texas band Stars of the Lid if you dig ambient-experimental music but done with guitars and LOTS of effects pedals!
I'll have a listen as soon as I am able.
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Your bit about an AI writing music for specific situations reminded me of that beautiful scene on the movie 'Her' when Samantha (the AI) writes a song for the day she spent on the beach with Theodore. The real song was by Arcade Fire, but it's interesting to think that we are very close to the day (if not living it already) when an AI could actually write such a beautiful song like that
You say interesting, I say a bit unsettling.
@radurte &
@chronic_johnson_a.r.a.b
Very very much so, that movie captured and presented a number of (I think) very difficult questions.
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It wasn't until a few years ago after introducing the neighbor across the street to Roxy Music's Avalon that I realized how vast Brian Eno's influence over the music I listen to actually was (even though he had left the group by then). Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980) might be my favorite Eno produced album, but David Bowie "Heroes" (1977) ranks high as well (although he's not the producer on it). Also, The Unforgettable Fire (1984) -- I saw U2 play San Francisco on that tour. Awesome show.
I"m glad you got to enjoy one of their shows.
I am a fan of TH and Bowie, I'd like to do a treatment on both at some point.
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that AI drawing looks very cool! ❤🛫
I was genuinely stunned!
Its reslly an outstanding tool.
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I like his work with Bowie during the Berlin era and on the Outside album, but never been a big fan of his other music. He's a great producer and has a lot of wacky, cool ideas.
I agree, he's entirely brilliant.
I feel we are genuinely fortunate to have experenced his work in his lifetime.
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when i'm tripping a see a steady stream of jumbo jets screeching off into the sky ..endless jumbo jets ..how does Brian do the hidden imagery in the music ..it makes me cry with laughter ....delicate music to steady your nerves ...lol ..what a concept.
That's not an experience I can compare notes on, but it does sound interesting.
Crying with laughter is a great experience, I'm glad you get that from his music.
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Do a history on kankyo ongaku
I love you.
me too!
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Okay, Stella, so I finally figured it out: whenever there's a word ending in "ple" your pronunciation comes out like "Poh." So we get things like "Pee-poh" and "sim-poh" and "multi-poh." There. So we solved that one. 😌
I'm really glad you have that settled. I am flattered to be a drinking game.
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I thought this video would be about how Brian Eno made Music For Airports 🤷🏻♂️
lol
it kinda is, isn't it?
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Very hard to choose. His first solo lps, his work with David Bowie and albums with Harold Budd. The whole Ambient series. I would've loved to have heard a third Japan album where they didn't change musical direction and were produced by Eno, as he wanted at the time. It could have been awful, but still.
Alternative histories and so on are difficult, but entertaining to dwell on.
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JUmper shirt too warm; I knew you were hot. sorry ;) haha I like the Apollo:Atmosphere and Soundtracks. Well see you at the cooling station !
They are great.
Also, hahaha.
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Stella's accent sounds like a Hong Kong-Cockney mashup. lol But I bought Music for Airports when it first came out, and I just think it's so boring. But I love ALL his other ambient music works. Go figure.
hahahahahaha
I've been told British-esque, but, not cockney. I don't know to be flattered or not.
Is Hong Kongkney a viable portmanteau?
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@@StellasEncounter Hong Kongkney! A viable portmanteau indeed. 🤣 You should be neither flattered nor insulted; it is what it is. :-) But in your next video, I want to hear you say, "Hong Kongkney a viable portmanteau." 🤣 I'm subscribing!
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CZcams doesn't have Mainland China as an option for location.
I think I'll change it to HK and that's closer to where I am.
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@@StellasEncounter Happy New Year! Didn't expect the reply. Guess you are in Guangdong then. Love your channel and your narrative style. Hope to see more of your videos this year.
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Uh...that starter picture is....beyond excuse, in my taste. Just no! Sorry.
lol, I did think that it would rub some people the worng way. Uncanny Valley etc etc. I put the still of Eno into one of the AI tools because it seemed apropriate for the topic.
I hope that makes sense, even if it jars a little.
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