"Eno has a claim, as much as anyone does, to have invented the genre of ambient music. So there's no narrative quality to the music. It just sort of starts, stays pretty much in one place and then ends. He certainly coined the term, built out the philosophy, sort of has eaten a lot of the music we now listen to. But also, he's just done so many other things."
"A lot of sound we just take for granted. A lot of the way sound is now made. Eno helped bring that into existence. A lot of his work on creating generative systems that make music can be seen as a forerunner to much of today's AI systems. And Eno is more than just a sonic technician or tinkerer. He's this wonderful thinker and philosopher of art and just being a human being."
Brian Eno claims to have invented ambient music and coined the term, describing the genre as lacking narrative, beginning, remaining in one place, and ending. He developed the philosophy and techniques that shaped much contemporary sound and music production. He produced seminal albums for U2, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson and Coldplay, and composed the Windows 95 startup sound. His experiments with generative musical systems anticipated many aspects of modern AI. He identifies as a thinker and philosopher of art and human experience and resists framing art as an existential challenge. He released What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory and a new album, Liminal, with Beatie Wolfe.
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