Eno knows
by Paul Miller
Talking of Brian Eno... here's the transcript of a lecture he gave in November last year for the Long Now Foundation.
"What I found I was preferring to listen to was music where that pyramid was squashed down, where no particular instrument was featured as the lead instrument and instead you had a network of interactions between lots of different sounds. In my own work this manifested in an emphasis on making what would have been called the background more interesting"
He then goes on to explain how everything - from German airports through New York loft apartments to English church bells - relates to ideas about the Long Now. There's also an interesting remark about Demos co-founder Geoff Mulgan and what politicians need to do to put long term thinking into practice.