Instruments sound interesting not because of their sound but because of the relationship a player has with them.
Yes! This quote was taken from the context of using synths. If you listen to Eno's synthesizer work, stretching back decades, he has a way of using synths so they sound timeless. This is amazing. Listen to any music with a synth 10 or 20 years ago, and you can immediately pin point the time period because it sounds dated. Rapidly evolving technology dates quickly. When you listen to Eno, you don't hear the synth, you simply hear Eno.
All the signs were in the air all around with ambient music in the mid 1970s, and other people were doing a similar thing. I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what it needed. A name. A name. Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it. By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important.
Names are important because it is my belief that names are tied closely to consciousness. A name is a symbol that allows something to exist in your mind when it isn't in front of you. The origin of consciousness in humans can be traced to when we started remembering the dead.
Zappa was important to me because I realised I didn't have to make music like he did.
I lol'd.
I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip.
I know this is difficult for people to understand as the record industry has been around for their entire life, but it is over. It was fun while it lasted but its very existence was an aberration in the grand scheme of things. All this nonsensical flailing around comes from people who refuse to admit this fact. The other thing that makes this difficult to accept is we really don't know for sure what will replace it.
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.
