1982: BRIAN ENO does NOT like ELECTRONIC SOUNDS! | Riverside | Music | BBC Archive
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- "I generally don't like electronic sounds that much, which you might find surprising..."
Producer and performer Brian Eno talks to the BBC about synthesizers.
"I find natural sound, or sound produced from non-electronic sources, to be so rich and so interesting. And yet, the interesting thing about electronic sound is that it's very easy to manipulate."
"The synthesizer seems, to me, to present you with a position where you could turn natural sound into electronic sound and use some of the freedoms that the synthesizer then allowed you."
"Instead of just using the synthesizer, I use the whole studio as an appendage to the instrument in that way."
"The illusion with the big synthesizers is that somewhere among all those wires is the thing that's gonna save the day for you - and it's never true."
Brian Eno interview with Mike Andrews.
Clips taken from Riverside: The Synthesizer, People and Performance.
Originally broadcast 1 November, 1982.
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3:13 well done cameraman for spotting the on coming march of geese!
In my answer to the "If you could have six people round for dinner, who would you choose?" question, Brian Eno would definitely be one of them.
My six dinner guests would be...
Donald Trump
Clement Atlee
Fred Dibnah
Tony Hart
Jaclyn Smith
Giorgio Moroder
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and Sarah Palin
@@sexobscura I don't think Sarah Palin would be a great dinner guest tbh...a bedroom guest? Yes please.
I’d go along with that
I can’t see Eno and trump getting on well somehow 😂
Not just the 1 star in this clip, but 4 ; the 3 honourable guests at 3:17
😄👍💀
@3:15 is certainly a highlight of the interview. But seriously, I'm glad to be able to hear BE's opinion about a question I wonder about.
I totally agree with Brian Eno.
He has certainly his two important points to take both seriously in consideration.
(1) : imagine a synthesizer with just only one sound that you can articulate in the same way as you are playing a violin, so your entire focus is absorbed by just that one virtual instrument.
Brian Eno mentionned this kind of argument somewhere by supposing synthesizers with only twenty sounds.
I would go further. Just makes synthesizers with only one sound that doesn’t exist in nature or which cannot be produced in a pure acoustic instrument way. But make that synthesizer with plenty of articulation possibilities (as it was an acoustic instrument). The real challenge will become to play this completely new instrument as a virtuoze. That’s the challenge AND the spirit!
(2) The second point is the individualisation of the synthesizer. And as a synth builder you can fintune it based on one specific individual person with her/his own manner(ism)s, his/her own way to move, walk and “artikulate” him/herself. As an synthesizer instrument builder this would be possible. Progress needs to be made on that specific domain.
I see a future with 100ths of new orchestral magnificent one sound-synth-instruments that will enriched the orchestral podium in that way.
In the fullfillment of this two important points there is huge work to do which involves also an entire new needed focus for synthesizer (brand) makers.
Who of them will bring on the marked an high individualised synth with only one synth-sound AND also presented in a totally new package/presentation form as a highly remarkable and completely new instrument design on it’s own with acoustic instrument look alike articulation possibilities?
That will revolutionize the synthesizer market and will bring it to a new level. This will become the new wave.
Nowadays every possible sound can be produces by a magnitude of combinations of all kinds of soundsynthesis methods/techniques (additive, subtractive, fm, wavetable, grain, physical modelling and so much more). That’s not the problem anymore.
Nowadays making polyphonic aftertouch for more than just one synthesizer (Yamaha CS-80) seems to become the actual new challenge for synthesizer builders.
I would suggest : go much further than this!
The real challenge is to play with one single sound synth with a totally new instrument-design that is totally individualised and what you can play in a high virtuoze way by only be focused on that one sound and it’s gamma of limited but every moment very well choosen articulations.
That’s the real future of the synthesizer world.
LESS IS MORE.
Yes, I agree totally with Brian Eno.
I love Enos and Gabriels approach to machines like the Fairlight... very rarely used the stock sounds. They must've spent months of their lives striving for something organic.
Interesting ! When we talked about "second role of producer is to use studio as instrument"
It's exactly what "musique concrete" and later, "dubmasters" as KTubby Or E Thompson, had bring to music
A wise man even back then. Been listening to the odd snippet of advice he gives and it's quite profound.
On a warm evening, find a place with a dark sky, setup a deck chair, watch a meteor shower or stargaze and listen to Thursday Afternoon for an hour. Or do the same and listen to Discreet Music. If you don't like the outside, lay on your bed in the dark with headphones and chill to the above. The best chill ambient for your mental health.
Or "Shutov Assembly" in my case.
A clever, talented man and i think Another Green World is a classic and beautiful album
'An ending' is beautiful!
Old Eno noodling about on his EMS VCS3, hope Behringer releases the full-sized clone sometime in the next few years, Dreamt of owning one since I was a kid.
I'm hoping too, but it seems as they've been having some serious issues with it.
3:17 His thoughts on synth gear that was responsive to the human touch and physical momentum have been realized at least partially in touch-sensitive sampler and drum machine pads. I would love to see this idea explored further.
3:16 Geese in the background; we're ready to be recorded now mr hu-man.
They're there for some audio ducking
Nice archival Eno snippet!
I think Eno used his talents in a warm way not overtly making a synthy tech thing like Yaz etc it was used holistically and served the song/ performance.
Many rock and metal fans hate, loathe and despise any electronic sounds to the point of obsession and claim it is all just "techno crap". They could love a whole entire album to death after buying it, but if the last track on the album had a single 5 second long electronic sound right at the end, they would then bin it!
Great glasses
When I first saw the thumbnail I thought it was Price Willliam
"more physical synthesizers"... His wish is finally being realized with MPE going mainstream.
great house 😊
I believe one or more recording studios were based in country houses? Could be that, perhaps. Nice for Eno if that was/is his own house!
@@fburton8 i think both ?
Obligatory BBC Micro generated titles at the top left.
Still true today
I love Eno to bits, but he’s talking absolute nonsense here.
but he loves negativland's money!
"small craft in a sea of milk" very small brian
Worst Eno interview ever 😂 He basically said nothing of any substance 😂
Throughout his entire career it's been blatantly obvious that Brian Eno has been extremely disgusted by electronic sounds ruining the purity of the acoustic sound of our world