beerwolf Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 https://bleep.com/release/77609-brian-eno-reflection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 January 1st. Mmm. Good start to the new year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 Yeah Brian rang me up on the Batphone while I was chilling in the hammock in the Batcave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 obviously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 Okay Brian didn't ring me up, but the Bathammock, the Batphone and Batcave? It's real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Reflection follows in the lineage of Brian Eno's long-running collection of 'Ambient' recordings that started with his 1973 collaboration with Robert Fripp, (No Pussyfooting) and 1975's Discreet Music. Consisting entirely of one long form composition, Reflection mirrors perfectly Brian Eno's idea that 'Ambient' music is a term "to distinguish it from pieces of music that have fixed duration and rhythmically connected, locked together elements". yesyesyesyesyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 lol @ cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 ooh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 hope Eno is on point and on target Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lada Laika Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 lol @ cover Gonna look even better blown up on the vinyl jacket! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 It's a terrible cover. Given Eno's art aesthetic and general good taste i.e Another Green World, Before And After Science, you'd think he would put more effort into that. Some of his covers overs the years are downright awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 Definitly a HQ digital release for me, I'm not so precious as I used to be about physical versions. I'll slowly crawl out of my pit on New Years day and just zip it down the wire. Once the banana, berrocca, mineral water and milk thistle has worked its magic it'll be Ambient Eno Time........and I'll be happily snoozing fast asleep again within 10 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purlieu Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 If he's happy to go back and re-cover old ground, I'd really love him to return to the ambient miniatures format of the instrumental stuff on Another Green World and Before & After Science, Apollo, and the Music for Films series. Short, evocative pieces made with a mixture of synths and live instrumentation. Always my favourite stuff of his. Will be checking this on release, of course. Sometimes his longform ambient is totally on point (Music for Airports, Lux), sometimes it misses the mark for me (Neroli). But it's always worth a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 According to this site, there will be an iOS app that plays an 'endless' version of Reflection. Mmm. There's a lot of ways to define 'endless'. http://www.factmag.com/2016/12/15/brian-eno-reflection-generative-music-app-endless/ Here too. http://pitchfork.com/news/70448-brian-eno-details-generative-editions-of-new-album-reflection/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 According to this site, there will be an iOS app that plays an 'endless' version of Reflection. Mmm. There's a lot of ways to define 'endless'. http://www.factmag.com/2016/12/15/brian-eno-reflection-generative-music-app-endless/ Here too. http://pitchfork.com/news/70448-brian-eno-details-generative-editions-of-new-album-reflection/ I read somewhere that he somehow managed to put his "conciousness" as an algorithm into the album so that it is ever-evolving. The idea is that in that way, Brian Eno will live forever... sounds kinda bs, but very cool idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 I will be very surprised if he has truly created a generative app that plays endlessly - with every moment unique and never repeated again. He does tend to hype these things and often him talking about an idea is infinitely more exciting than what he actually releases. I remember all the hype around 77 Million Paintings - in reality it was just a screensaver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 didn't autechre say they have basically achieved that already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 so that really is the cover? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Eno’s follow-up to his 2016 album The Ship further expands his pioneering catalog of ambient releases, including his full length LUX in 2012. Composed of just one 54-minute title track, the generative edition of Reflection was developed by Eno and his long-time collaborator Peter Chilvers. Here’s more from Eno on the generative Reflection versions being made available on Apple TV and iOS: Reflection is the most recent of my Ambient experiments and represents the most sophisticated of them so far. My original intention with Ambient music was to make endless music, music that would be there as long as you wanted it to be. I wanted also that this music would unfold differently all the time – “like sitting by a river”: it’s always the same river, but it’s always changing. But recordings – whether vinyl, cassette or CD – are limited in length, and replay identically each time you listen to them. So in the past I was limited to making the systems which make the music, but then recording 30 minutes or an hour and releasing that. Reflection in its album form – on vinyl or CD – is like this. But the app by which Reflection is produced is not restricted: it creates an endless and endlessly changing version of the piece of music. The creation of a piece of music like this falls into three stages: the first is the selection of sonic materials and a musical mode – a constellation of musical relationships. These are then patterned and explored by a system of algorithms which vary and permutate the initial elements I feed into them, resulting in a constantly morphing stream (or river) of music. The third stage is listening. Once I have the system up and running I spend a long time – many days and weeks in fact – seeing what it does and fine-tuning the materials and sets of rules that run the algorithms. It’s a lot like gardening: you plant the seeds and then you keep tending to them until you get a garden you like. The app-based edition comes alongside more conventional vinyl LP, CD, digital download and streaming offerings. “Moving the composition into software allowed an extra opportunity,” said Chilvers. “The rules themselves could change with the time of day. The harmony is brighter in the morning, transitioning gradually over the afternoon to reach the original key by evening. As the early hours draw in, newly introduced conditions thin the notes out and slow everything down.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Mmm. Where's that copy of Quaristice gone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 The iOS app will be (deep breath), £29.99 ($39.99). Sweet Jesus, I thought it would be under a tenner at most. https://warp.net/news/brian-eno-reflection-premium-generative-editions-released-on-1-january/ This is way, way more expensive than the acclaimed Bloom and his other apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 for the cover he should've done like that time person of the year with the cheap mirror Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 sounds interesting but that's way too expensive imo.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 sounds interesting but that's way too expensive imo.. yeah, he won't get many people buying it blind at that price. I think the most expensive app he's ever had in the Apple store was about £8. For something that supposedly plays infinitely, it's taking the piss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Issuu Magazine, December 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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