Eno's Ambient Music Is a Sense of Attraction

i wanted to talk about his ambient music. We've been thinking a lot about attention, both sometimes intermittently on the show and certainly as a culture. Eno was kind of early to that party,. i feel like the basic innovation of his idea of ant music is not even the kind of quasi sibernetic systems he created in order to generate it. But just the observation that attention can work at different focal distances.

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