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elderford
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Re: eno
Jan 22, 2003, 12:26
one of my favourite reviews of an ambient eno album said something along the lines of "like listening to a fridge".

...to agree with moey and chip in at the same time, "Music For Airports" also by eno takes as its theme the idea of composing music to be interrupted, logically enough by information announcements at airports. Bang on a Can recently performed (and re-recorded) the pieces in a way which i thought missed the point a bit, but it does show the duality of music in that:

1. Eno wrote four pieces of background music designed to be interrupted without breaking the flow of the pieces.

2. bang on a can covered it and presented it as a performance piece designed to be listened to intently.

...so there you have one thing made to be heard in a particular way by the original composer which someone else has turned on its head to claim it should be heard in another way.

ps. Robert Wyatt plays piano and co/composes on Eno's one.
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