Brian Eno: The Innovator
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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Making Music that is Like a River
The speaker was in a carefully designed airport and noticed that the music being played did not fit the environment. This sparked the idea of creating a different kind of music specifically for certain spaces. The speaker thought about the characteristics this music should have, such as being interruptible and not dominating the vocal register. This led to the creation of the first ambient record, which had a functional role rather than being dance or radio music.
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