Brian Eno on the Long Now

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Tim O'Reilly
Nov. 03, 2003 06:06 PM
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I just received the following announcement from Stewart Brand, with encouragement to repost. (I should add that I am also a sponsor of the event.):

Musician/producer BRIAN ENO will be giving a rare free public lecture next week at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Herbst Pavillion. Coffee bar opens at 7pm, lecture at 8pm. Directions to Herbst Pavillion are here.
This is not a concert. Brian Eno will be speaking about "The Long Now." His talk will be the first of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, sponsored by Long Now Foundation). His talks are usually as amazing as his music.
The on-going lectures in this new series will be every second Friday at Fort Mason. Future speakers include Peter Schwartz, George Dyson, Laurie Anderson, Rusty Schweickart, Paul Hawken, Daniel Janzen, and Danny Hillis.
Admission to the lectures is free (a $10 donation is welcome but NOT required). The hall holds about 700 people. For unticketed lectures like this it's a good idea to come early for a good seat.

I've heard Brian talk about this subject before, and I believe that it's incredibly important. If you're in the Bay Area, head on up to Fort Mason this Friday.

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eno
2003-11-05 06:13:04 anonymous2 [Reply | View]

always was a polite little stealer, good at ripping off those he'd helped work up to be worth of ripping off. byrne/bowie/u2. dull dull dull.

The long "bollox" more like!
2003-11-04 12:24:59 anonymous2 [Reply | View]

Brian Eno has somehow created an amazing self-mythology, where normally intelligent people melt before his "erudition". Frankly, he talks a load of "bollox".

Many years ago, I paid a substantial amount of money to go to one of his infrequent "happenings" in London, but was sufficiently under-whelmed that I left after aboutv 20 minutes. As a teenage fan of his work with Roxy Music, his later solo albums, his collaboration with Robert Fripp (ex King Crimson) and production for U2, etc, I was really looking forward to the event.

However, his initial topic was banal beyond belief; that different scents are like different musical notes, and so one create a symphony of smell. Duh! Not only was that the day-to-day the language used by people in the perfume industry (hence "long" from original thinking), it was also more-or-less the fundamental premise of the book "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.

If i'd wanted a review of a book i'd read several years earlier I would have dug out an old copy of The Times Literary Supplement.

However, I suppose one should at least be grateful that he is not charging for the event. But I would warn any participants not to expect too much. After, all, something which has no cost more than often has no value!

Happy Dreams.

The long "bollox" more like!
2003-12-05 05:38:25 anonymous2 [Reply | View]

Six quid is a substantial amount of money?

Eno had been doing stuff with perfumes since the early 1980s, so it's unlikely that his views were taken wholesale from your "Perfume" book.

For the interested, there's a review of that lecture here:

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/ind92.html

The long "bollox" more like!
2003-11-07 07:27:00 anonymous2 [Reply | View]

>After, all, something which has no cost more than often has no value!

Well said! Of course, this would apply to linux too.

A symphony of smell
2003-11-04 16:21:52 anonymous2 [Reply | View]

Check the Eckhart Wunderich interview:
http://frigate.ce.mun.ca:8080/great/episodes/ge_s1_01.mp3

The long "bollox" more like!
2003-11-04 15:39:54 anonymous2 [Reply | View]

"After, all, something which has no cost more than often has no value!"

You mean like the web, Linux and all other open source projects? Stop puffing that crack pipe dude.

The long "bollox" more like!
2003-11-07 07:28:28 anonymous2 [Reply | View]

Maybe you should put down the pipe. The web IS NOT FREE unless you are stealing access. As for Open Sores...

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