I'm assuming that most of you know who Brian Eno is. If not- he wrote some good music, he wrote some pretentious music, he did amazing things as a producer, probably the most impressive of which was inventing the Talking Heads' sound.
Anyway.
He's had some interesting compositional practices in the past, and I am always interested in hearing what he is up to.
Apparently, this week, that is presenting an installation in which he basically makes a screen saver. With audio. There's a bit of a tease over at apple.com where they pretend to maybe discuss the interesting bits of what exactly he did, but- as is usually the case- the people who report on algorithmic composition aren't really interested in algorithms (looks like maybe it was some primitive genetic algorithm? or possibly random...). There were some frightening bits (they used DIRECTOR?!), and, sadly, I came away with the impression that they hadnt actually done anything other than make a nifty screensaver, then cash in on Eno's reputation as an electronic magician.
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Does seem like a glorified screensaver. I hope its something more... but.. yea random algorithmically generated 'art' sure seems like 'screensaver with my name attached to it'
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