Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results
Brian EnoMy lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
Brian EnoYou shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
Brian EnoW]hat makes a work of art โgoodโ for you is not something that is already โinsideโ it, but something that happens inside you.
Brian EnoWhatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
Brian EnoI think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of 'what else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
Brian EnoWhen our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.
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