Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Will_Wright...

Game designer Will Wright and musician Brian Eno discuss the generative systems used in their respective creative works. This clip features original music by Brian Eno.

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Will Wright and Brian Eno on "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 Foundation

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[normloman]

great video. Two geniuses. Very educational. The internet needs more stuff like this.

[noopa]

I hope this runs on my dream cast

[orincat92]

this would be a great screen saver

[Beatboxbob]

If you put something on a CD people will tend to think it's music...

Finally, Someone admits this

(This coming from an experimental music enthusiast)

[Kyli Rouge]

Life Genesis, by the way, is a version of the Game of Life with two sets of colors. Look it up on Wikipedia ;D

[00000gerat]

yes yes yes. no one believes me that entertainment pack 1 contained one of the greatest introductions to early theories in entropy and communication. shannon, von neumann, maxwell. yes yes yes yes.

[scwt89]

5:40 if i pause it and add one cell *adds 3 cells*

[LEERILEY33]

Why would if iv typed in Brian eno would want to watch to a shitty katieb advertisement!

[SdaCosta22]

what happens when we can use generative systems on living agents

[Xaymot]

Basically, existence is the result of a generative system however our current state of survival is the result of a robust generative genetic system. Our identity is the result of our ability to adapt to the chaotic input of external systems.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

2 awesome people :)

[Kataki Uchiha]

I want that fricken program and I will pay for it!