Good interview with Brian Eno in today’s Observer by Paul Morley. He talks about how he combines an interest in abstract experimental art with his work on results driven pop with mainstream acts like Coldplay and U2. These apparent contradictions never bother him too much. In the same spirit, he reveals that he is in a local gospel choir despite being an atheist.
In talking about his invention of Ambient Music, I like what he says about giving genre labels to music:
“All the signs were in the air all around with ambient music in the mid 1970s, and other people were doing a similar thing. I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what it needed. A name. A name. Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it. By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important.”
