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Re: To all the xperimentalist musicians: Eno-Wright event in SanFrancisco

One of the amazing talks I've ever seen was Eno discussing the Long Now 
foundation, I think it was in 2003. At that time he was introducing his 
"Bell Studies" album, which concerned the clock of the Long Now.

http://www.longnow.org/

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
> I think there are a lot of people may be interested in this
>  
> Host: The Long Now Foundation
> Location: San Francisco, CA
> Date: Jun 26 2006
>
> Program Description: Playing with Time
>
> In a dazzling duet Will Wright and Brian Eno give an intense clinic on 
> the joys and techniques of "generative" creation.
>
> Back in the 1970s both speakers got hooked by cellular automata such 
> as Conway's "Game of Life," where just a few simple rules could 
> unleash profoundly unpredictable and infinitely varied dynamic 
> patterns. Cellular automata were the secret ingredient of Wright's 
> genre-busting computer game "SimCity" in 1989. Eno was additionally 
> inspired by Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain," in which two identical 
> 1.8 second tape loops beat against each other out of phase for a 
> riveting 20 minutes. That idea led to Eno's "Music for Airports" 
> (1978), and the genre he named "ambient music" was born.
>
> The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock 
> and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long 
> term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide 
> counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote 
> "slower/better" thinking. We hope to creatively foster responsibility 
> in the framework of the next 10,000 years - The Long Now Foundaton
>  
> fabio
> http://xoomer.alice.it/eterogeneo/
> www.myspace.com/eterogeneo