EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 70, Issue 11 This issue's topics: Artists Eno update? (was: new reader question) Eno Update (6 messages) Enya's sounds (was: RE: midi protocol) Enya's music (was Enya's sounds) (2 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . Please send articles to emusic-l@american.edu. Administrative mail should be directed to the editor at the address above. You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 08:27:09 CST From: "Harry F.P. Haecker" Subject: Eno update? (was: new reader question) Mike Metlay responds to new reader, thus: >>robert moog is god >No, Robert Moog is a very funny, witty, hard-driven genius with a penchant >for thinking of the right tweat the right time. Brian Eno, now....;) I'm glad to hear you say that, Mike, since my main influence was Eno, some 19 years ago (witness [good luck], my _Ode to Eno_ piece, off the "Psuedo Placebo and the Vertical Holds" tape (ca. 1981)). God? Nah. Maybe a demi-god, or a hemi-desemi-quaver-god My question to everyone interested is whether Eno has done any recording since _The Shutov Assembly_ or _Neroli_ (good only for *very* ambient sex, IMHO), or where there may be an installation close to New Orleans. I know he's been more into multimedia installations since the late 80's, but always in places like London, Paris, New York or Dayton, Ohio :) Harry Haecker (haeckerh@nwrc.gov) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 11:56:25 CST From: "Michael D. Whitten" Subject: Re: Eno Update Metlay then Haecker go: >>>robert moog is god >>No, Robert Moog is a very funny, witty, hard-driven genius with a penchant >>for thinking of the right tweat the right time. Brian Eno, now....;) >My question to everyone interested is whether Eno has done any recording >since _The Shutov Assembly_ or _Neroli_ (good only for *very* ambient sex, >IMHO), or where there may be an installation close to New Orleans. I know >he's been more into multimedia installations since the late 80's, but >always in places like London, Paris, New York or Dayton, Ohio :) > >Harry Haecker (haeckerh@nwrc.gov) Hard to keep up with Eno; many of his projects are outside making records. He spoke here about 3 years ago and was heavily involved with Cale's orchestral efforts in then-Soviet Union. The talk was about the Soviet Union and Eno talked much about producing at least a couple bands from Moscow and now-St. Petersburg. His then-current media installation was a large one in Tokyo. He is also involved in the amusement park project in Spain with Peter Gabriel and Laurie Anderson. He also talked about releasing his entire solo catalog in boxed CD. Anyone heard whether that ever happened? Michael ---------------------------------------------------------- Michael Whitten | m-whit2@vm1.spcs.umn.edu | mw@lenti.med.umn.edu | "Sentience is over-rated." ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 14:10:45 CST From: "Harry F.P. Haecker" Subject: Eno Update Michael Artfully Adds: >Hard to keep up with Eno; many of his projects are outside making records. Genius that He is! >He spoke here about 3 years ago and was heavily involved with Cale's >orchestral efforts in then-Soviet Union. Was that before or after _Wrong Way Up_ (Eno/Cale)? >The talk was about the Soviet Union and Eno talked much about producing >at least a couple bands from Moscow and now-St. Petersburg. That should be an interesting collaboration! I have a feeling, however, that it wouldn't be e-music, but more analogous to the _Edikafano_ (African horn band) >His then-current media installation was a large one in Tokyo. He is >also involved in the amusement park project in Spain with Peter Gabriel >and Laurie Anderson. Anyone here happen to catch these? >He also talked about releasing his entire solo catalog in boxed CD. >Anyone heard whether that ever happened? Yeah, I was going to mention that in my first posting, but since I already own >90% of the stuff in the box sets, I'd just be buying remixes and a couple of misc. things I don't have for $80 or so. I generally don't like those "best of" boxes anyway: I feel like I'm missing something when they leave the less popular pieces out. Thanks for the input, Michael. Harry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 17:34:39 -0500 From: Douglas Calnek Subject: Re: Eno Update I recently purchased James' new album entitled "Wah-Wah". Eno is producer and also plays on it. It is an excellent collection of improv pieces that were recorded simultaneous to the recording of James' "Laid" album. Check this out, it has some very fine moments. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 17:02:03 PST From: Casey Dunn Subject: Eno Update the new Laurie Anderson is heavily Enosified. I recommend. It is not as dense as her last effort, and is a step back from "commercial". casey ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 11:37:45 +0100 From: Guy Van Belle Subject: Re: Eno Update > He is also involved in the amusement park project > in Spain with Peter Gabriel and Laurie Anderson. He also talked about > releasing his entire solo catalog in boxed CD. Anyone heard whether that > ever happened? Oh yes by accident I came across it. He has a cd-rom (Mac-format) out just now. I am not really into Eno adolatry. I suppose he is the perfect example of the Post-Modernist who is intelligent enough to suck up powerful ideas that are not quite working and make them work. I like some of his music and installations. Recently he was interviewed by the Dutch television broadcast VPRO about his more theoretical views on digital media and communications. He is giving lectures in UK and US about it. Strange that the ENO webpage starts with an old photo and just covers his older musical work, while the man is so versatile and always digging up new projects. Somebody got his e-mail @@@? Seems natural to me to ask him these things himself this way ... GuyZ (Young Farmers Claim Future) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 08:27:19 CST From: "Harry F.P. Haecker" Subject: Re[2]: Eno Update >I recently purchased James' new album entitled "Wah-Wah". Eno is producer >and also plays on it. It is an excellent collection of improv pieces that >were recorded simultaneous to the recording of James' "Laid" album. >Check this out, it has some very fine moments. Who is "James"? Rick James? :) I would've replied directly, but my server doesn't tell me who originally sent the message. HFPH (haeckerh@nwrc.gov) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 14:16:46 PST From: Chris Sherwood Subject: Enya's sounds (was: RE: midi protocol) |From: "Leo T. Nutley" | [...] |bla bla bla. | |577 subscribers * us$3.50/pint = $2,019.50. They'd love us at the old 'Pig |and Whistle'. As long as it weren't in Nashville, where our favorite topic of conversation would tag us as 'damned scientists' instead of musicians ;^). ObEMUSIC: I'm interested in the instruments that Enya has used on her more recent releases. I think only the first of (three?) releases actually lists the instruments and I'll bet the list has grown (though it's obvious she's still using the emulator ;^). I'm quite impressed with the sounds she's managed to get from the analogs though, and I'm even more impressed with her sense of minimalism (rather than going totally techoserck) and ability to blend acoustic instruments in so well (which can tend to sound quite out of place with other e-music musicians). Chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 19:07:57 PST From: Chris Sherwood Subject: Re: Enya's music (was Enya's sounds) |From: David Rodger | |Chris Sherwood wrote about Enya's music being minimalist. IMO, that's about |right. Very pretty, but minimal musical content! I was hoping we could keep such subjective and gratuitous comments to ourselves, but I guess not (527 listeners are certainly going to have differing tastes). And to think that this was not just a comment among an otherwise useful post -- the comment was the only reason for the post. Hmmm. I'll rephrase the comment: I appreciate the methodology that Enya uses to express herself (whether you like it or not) with her synthesis tracks; it's all to easy to lose ones sight of musical expression (whether it is some- one elses cup of tea or not) with a bunch of synth layers, trying to come up with the most unique pad or pan flute sound or rippin' lead or something. |P.S. Don't mind me. You can listen to whatever you want! David, you remind me of the machanical machines I *used* to argue with when they insisted that the only real music was that which attained a certain high technical level in structure (or sometimes lack of). They also insisted on reminding you of it when they could. I appreciate these deeper musical forms myself (fusion, prog rock, jazz etc.), but I've noted that the music these older nemises would come up with were ultimately cold and without soul; music that has soul, even if it lacks to oh so complex forms of musical structure will win in my book everytime (and of course you can have both), but don't mind me -- you can listen to whatever you want. Do we really want to get into there, like they do on usenet? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 13:18:33 +1000 From: David Rodger Subject: Enya's music (was Enya's sounds) Hi folks, Chris Sherwood wrote about Enya's music being minimalist. IMO, that's about right. Very pretty, but minimal musical content! Regards, David musdr@lure.latrobe.edu.au P.S. Don't mind me. You can listen to whatever you want! ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************