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Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App
Brian Eno, or as he is known to many in my office, "God," has released his second iPhone App. A followup to Bloom, this one is called Trope and supposedly creates darker music. You create music by drawing shapes on the iPhone's screen.
While I'm not here to debate the existence of god or any such being. There are many that do, and I'm surprised at how low your standards are for calling one "God" compared to what others may do. For example, their "God" created the universe, heavens, man, life etc etc etc. You have chosen to use this term to a composer of Ambient music. This reminds me of the Bill Cosby quote,
Man invents. God creates. Man invented the AUTOMOBILE. Called it AMAZING! God made a tree said it was good. Man invented the REFRIGERATOR. Called it INCREDIBLE. God made a rabbit and called it good. The wheels fell off the car. The refrigerator lost its cool. Tree's still up and rabbit's still runnin'.
... but I saw his lecture last night on art and creativity "An evening with Brian Eno" and Long Beach State, and it was GREAT!
He tied art in with evolution and Copernicus, but mostly screwdrivers and haircuts.
A very well thought out, organized talk. I highly recommend it if you get the chance.
I also saw his digital kalaidscope "77 million paintings"
At the end he mentioned trope, but said it was more about the visual than his previous app.
I second this. I do like Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, but his last (non-ambient)album and those awful Coldplay and U2 albums he helped produce really just make me want to listen to old 801 stuff.... As a matter of fact, I am going to put on TKN from 801 Live right now...
"But this one goes to 11!"
I'd rather not be responsible for causing you to read that Roach Motel of a book. Just that you reminded me of the incantatory line from AS, "Who is John Galt?"
Please, read the Illuminatus! Trilogy instead, or Iain M Banks, or Charles Stross' Singularity Sky, or Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal, anything that has a sense of joy in it instead of an ex-totalitarian's exaltation of order. Maybe I'm just doing the universe's work, and my offhand remark is meant somehow to change your life despite my beliefs, and you should read AS; if so, so be it. But as far as I'm concerned the best reason to read it is inoculation and self-defense, just like the Bible, the Book of Mormon, or Lord of the Rings.
What about Karlheinz Stockhausen? Or would he be a god-father?