Brian Eno - Music For Airports Interview

[worldwildwest]

I'd call it Music for Elevators.

[newfuckingwave]

his description of "you're not going to die" music lmfao

[WilburRatbag]

The most spiritual atheist I know of...

[4Brownie4]

@WilburRatbag don't know what something has to do with another...

[phoenix3brian]

@WilburRatbag that's an oxymoron xD

[poorlyprince]

please tell me one for elevators is in the works

[corc7614]

It's funny because I can't imagine the nobheads who own these sort of facilities ever playing anything this good.

[mariothepookster]

the first time hearing music for airports i began weeping ... felt as though god was communicating with me.

[bloodline699]

brian eno is great

[erocker2020]

It would be so nice to hear this music in public places...I now want to open a grocery store just so I can make it happen in my store!

[breerex123]

now my life will be like a movie scene

[PIlotrcm]

Without Brian Eno, U2 would not be the mega group it is today, he is like the secret fifth member

[XFreeXYourXMindX]

musical genius :]

[fishybishbash]

I wonder if the record actually ever got played in cologne airport

[alrossmusic]

PLEASE:

does anybody know when this was released and by which broadcasting company

I want to add it to a bibliography for a college report

thank you :)

[amatorynumber]

that was actually very deep and beautiful.

[StayHL]

He is a genius!!!

[NEBUKEDNEZZA]

Every thing he says is true of 1982. . Now a days much more consideration is made to the experience had at airports all over the world, now except Tripoli Airport.. The owners of places like airports want you to have a good time on their property. . My local railway station plays especially brought in classical music 24/7. to enhance the place. . Some terrible places, like the dining room at Whole Foods Kensington High Street, London W8, have bad music but don't know it. Cheers. from, del-boy

[mrduffy1100]

Great talent.

[opertain]

lol it says he became ambient. HE INVENTED AMBIENT!! 

[Carthsgtr]

@opertain

20th Century composers had invented ambient music long before this man. Saying he "invented," "ambient" music is just fucking ridiculous.

[manbearwolflion]

@Carthsgtr I hope you realise that you are simply being extremely pedantic. He pioneered modern dat electronic ambient music. I dont think you understand the genre. Maybe listen to some of his work and see if it is even comparable to the 20th century composers you are talking about. Think about how angry your comment is.. over what?

[Carthsgtr]

@manbearwolflion

Over idiocy.

[Marcelpj]

oh yeah, schiphol footage :-)

[whatsinthatbox]

@Marcelpj

Ah schiphol airport, I've never seen so many gorgeous men in one place.

[MoonBoston]

Honestly, if I heard 1/1 all the time, I would feel very well about it.

[Lucifer986]

iv never heard eno at the airports :(

[fritzlacat]

Eno has always been a musical hero of mine...if not THE musical hero! Brilliant conceptionalist; inspirational producer/colloborator of other people's music (David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2, Devo, Laurie Anderson, Coldplay, Jane Siberry, Paul Simon, Robert Wyatt, James, Robert Fripp, John Cale, Ultravox); pioneer of glam rock, Frippertronics and, of course, ambient music; creator of many phenomenal solo albums; supporter of positive causes. He's pretty much the "creme de la creme" in my book.

[coffeeintheface]

2/2 is the most haunting and beautiful piece of music ever.

[ringowasbest]

@coffeeintheface how is it haunting?

[llanbo]

He's an outrageously, insufferably pretentious tosser, but he has made some fantastic music, and brings up some very good points. The silly bald whoopsie.

[fbhjr68]

Given all the stress and anxiety involved in air travel, his logic and music are impeccable.

[lukeashmoore]

Brian Eno is a bad man

[llanbo]

@lukeashmoore

No, he's a baLd man.

[boredstiffamerican]

@lukeashmoore

why?

[allesization]

This album sucked me into Brian Eno's world

[spectrum99122]

Ambient music should be the starting point, not the forgotten part!

[larsdars]

You´re so right , Brian .

[Bergthesgarten]

I....like him...

[degree7]

This is interesting, as I was in a coffee shop in JFK and they were playing 'Homeward Bound' by Simon and Gafunkel.

While it's a pop song, I thought it worked really well with the whole atmosphere of the shop and the fact that passengers were indeed "homeward bound".

[KaunisRoheIine]

Maybe the best ambient album I ever heard in my life.

[RicheyPwhufc]

If everyone was like mr ENO then the world would be an amazing place to live.

[tall32guy]

I owe it to myself to check into more of his stuff. I only know him as an ex-Roxy Music member, to the point I used to get him and Bryan Ferry mixed up because they have the same first name! LOL

[babyfluffee]

i like to fall asleep to music for airports... he's so smart!

[GoreTorn16]

Love this album, that and his kites album. :)

[leytonarms]

what's beautiful about airports apart from the people....he's a ponce

[stravinsky99]

@leytonarms Brian Eno is one of the most influential figures in popular culture in the last 40 years!! He championed Art-rock in the 70's; he collaborated with David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Robert Fripp and every major figure of that time in the '80's; he led the way for collaborations between experimental music, minimalist music and popular music; he is a leading figure in experimental Art; in sonic electro-acoustic innovation... oh yeah, and he's also the producer of U2!!!!

[wingl3ss]

Anyone have any idea what year this interview took place? I'd be very interested to know

[mloaks]

red stewardess' unis are the kind! 1:50

[FerranK68]

"Ambient 1" is perfect, "Ambient 2" simply magical. All works by Eno/Budd, Eno/Fripp, or Eno/Byrne (and others) are GREAT

[maeiraldi]

Imagine what the world would be like if more people were this forward minded.

[sonofagunder]

I love him.

[Tengent]

The first time I listened to 2/2, I thought of my mom finding me dead listening to it. It was a painful thought but the music was still beautiful.

[movementsofhumanbody]

brian eno...has fullfilled and dropped my life.

[ArroganceClause]

i totally get that feeling of death as the message in the music

bravoo

[pronatorgator]

I agree with you, ArroganceClause, even though nobody else here seems to. Eno makes it quite clear in this video that the reality of death IS a part of what this music's about.

[sherbunlulz]

*dance*

[natefisher76]

i love all of them specially 2/2 beautiful..

[infamycomms]

I heard this album got a lot of flak from airport travellers for doing the exact opposite of what it was intended to do. I have actually listened to the entire 'Music For Airports' album at Christchurch Airport (New Zealand) and I think it works just fine

[quosmo1]

really interesting ideas

[AlexxTheChill]

1/1

[infamycomms]

:D :D

[evelyneverettgreen]

music for films is wonderful too. particuarly at 3- either 3 in the morning or three in the afternoon.

[evelyneverettgreen]

i like cologne airport too, but stanstead is quite lovely too. can you recommend some nice ones?

[kaioxygen]

You think Stanstead is lovely??????????

[evelyneverettgreen]

Compared to Gatwick and Heathrow!

[kaioxygen]

Mmm, that still hardly makes it lovely but each to their own.

[evelyneverettgreen]

Indeed. Also, I'm not very well travelled. Any recommendations (for airports I mean)?

[kaioxygen]

They're all pretty shocking to tell you the truth, I don't suppose you could use the term lovely for any of them. Maybe if you're looking for impressive try Incheon airport.

[stefanscally]

hahaha thats hellarious, discussing where you should fly to on the basis that the airports nice, awsome!

[ExLuedenscheider]

@evelyneverettgreen I really like Düsseldorf. Almost like a cathedral

[BorisViande]

yes t'a réson mais ça fait chier quamême

[whales]

2/2 is my fave

[Ogaitnas900]

Perfect music for just sitting around looking at people come and go

[SaintRussell1914]

I know it might sound weird, but Music for Airports is probably one of my 5 desert island albums.

[GemandJoe]

This guy is a genius, I love him!

[BimLanders]

The world will never learn Eno's lessons on environment based music. Every public space I visit is filled with Top 40 radio songs from the 60's to present, often hearing the exact same songs during visits to different cities, and it's all the same. None of that music captures the nature of the environment, and is simply a distraction.

[ExLuedenscheider]

@BimLanders Perhaps they play rubbishy music on purpose, so people don't hang around for too long. If they really did play Eno's music at airports, people like me would stay there the whole day, and get in everyone's way...

[akrotirifry9]

@ExLuedenscheider haha! exactly!!!

[telomeraseMusic]

my kind of compose sounds follow from 1989 this great composer : thank you Brian . I listen the first time the 4 tracks of "music for airport" in my room in Catania in a religious silence .... great commotion.

[mmafighter302]

love his music :) everything i've heard from him is absolutely beautiful...his album Ambient 4: On Land is amazing as well :D

[BlenDude]

Where is this clip from? It's very interesting

[anwar85]

brilliant!!

[ArialXK]

the master

[isolatedoddball]

''Distractive'' is more like it.

[isolatedoddball]

When I saw this interview clip for the first time in August 2006, for some bizarre reason, I laughed out loud when he said ''if you die, it doesn't really matter''. I have to say that I've never paid attention to music at airports. It's not quite as intrusive as music at malls, after all.

[Anorakus]

But it's true. If/when you die, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter.

[isolatedoddball]

Sure it is, and I find that comforting.

[wizzard1956]

simply brilliant , . . . the texture of the flow , brian eno is touched by gods own hand, . . . I parralel it to chopin and wagner

[daddysquirrel]

what are you smoking?

[68060]

legend.

[BGSH]

true music genius. These days, this album keeps reminding me that music which is pure art, a result of true creation, isn't gone from our world yet.

[thentherewas]

what a legend.

[shredonbass]

the neck of the woods i live in has a large but far less busier airport than this, so the amazingly beutiful album seems even more relevant here

[sheatheman]

i want to claim some of these thoughts for myself, I have had these thoughts before watching this clip, but I just have to let it be.

Brian Eno is the one who said it first.

30 years later and I haven't heard "Drift" in an airport.

[titaflynn]

the brains behind the show.

[alexitin]

nice

[lotrrox04]

May I be honest? I LOVE that purple shirt! Oh, and, by the way, I love "Airports"! Haunting, soothing, environmental, quiet...

[tensago]

i wish i was brian eno, instead im stuck with being bono, and no one likes me, not even larry mullen :-(

[zenmachinefilms]

Brilliant.

[aemaury]

he's too good

[Azure260]

I have always had such a deep respect for this man.

[azurenscens]

@Azure260 well damn. get on your knees and "respect" me.

[Carthsgtr]

@Azure260

Until I actually listened to some of his music and interviews I always thought he was a douchebag.

[vicko77]

perfect,yes, that is true....

[moobie1010]

"You are not going to die. You are not going to die." (happy jig)

[HaloSvevo]

A true genius.

[me92me92]

undeniably

[me92me92]

undeniably

[tie32101]

A true artist. The best artist.