The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform "Music for Airports"

[djminimoto]

That piece,all too short,sounds to me like 2/2.

[sheatheman]

Awesome.

It is very progressive that these musicians, many classically trained, are performing ambient music.

Brian Eno improvised in most of his compositions, so what the bang on a can people are doing is actually paying homage to that moment in time when brian eno created music for airports, because there will never be another moment like it.

[imissbinladin]

I disagree. Wasb "Music for Airports" improvised ? I don't think so. One of Eno's "tricks', as is calls it, is to make very contempleted music sound improvised. "Music for Airports" is an excellent example.

[sheatheman]

did you get that from that out of print documentary?

he did say that was a trick he used once or twice.

when i say improvise i dont mean he sat in front of his synth and doodled like an idiot, i just think he understood more where the music was going as he recorded it, rather than having each part notated exactly in what ever notation brian eno would have used