brian eno talks about youtube and television

In June 2009 Brian Eno curated the Luminous Festival in Sydney, Australia. Eno selected various acts to perform as part of the festival, one of which was Lee 'Scratch' Perry. Australia dub/ reggae act Sine were selected to be the support to Lee Perry after Eno saw a video of them performing on youtube. To listen to sine's music and buy MP3s or CDs check www.myspace.com/sinedub

Category:

Music

Tags:

• brian
• eno
• lee
• scratch
• perry
• luminous
• festival
• sydney
• australia
• sine
• dub
• reggae
• britney
• spears

[dullsvillain]

Love that guy

[dudestube]

Yes, TV is indeed dead in it's tracks, at a standstill. Programming is redundant...and repetitive in a way not unlike the radio. Your chances of finding something of interest, by chance through the TV, are astronomically small. It happens in all channels of media. The internet TV is the direction we are heading in....good or bad.

[dayvenkirq]

" ... you've got to rethink your own world."

[iggyfan66]

I love his answer to the future of television! I can't agree with him more tv is a vast waste land of shit.

[therealsweep]

@funkb0x They used to pester me as well. I think in the end they finally worked out that I really don't have a TV and don't want one. Not having an aerial on the house may have helped. But I also had some discussions with the guy who was the LibDem shadow media minister at the time, and he helped. Whether the LibDems are still helpful now Clegg's got hold of them is another question. But stick to your guns and don't let these peope intimidate you or demand to search your house or any of that.

[therealsweep]

Nice one, Brian, about TV. I'm glad someone's saying this.

[Oldbmwr100rs]

He's partially right, major broadcast television is dead, overrun with non programming and far too much advertizing. Another thing wrong with it is the same with radio, the complete lack of good engineering. On radio it's bad segues,dead air, overlapping songs and adverts,there's not even interest in trying to do a good job. With TV its that no effort is put into making anything entertaining or even to try to make a decent presentation. There's no respect for the audience,and people notice.

[daveyfarrell]

@dullsvillain 

[CiaranPaulRoche]

Televison murdered itself...... Yet, billions till suckle at the tit. True individual capitalism (not corporatism) was my nieve utopian vision of the Internet back when I started building commercial websites in the early 90's. I believed if everyone was connected the cream will naturally rise to the top and then your eyes, you the audience will be the true commodity of the future. You are, afterall, just someone to sell to.

[funkb0x]

TV is dead but the people still have to pay a TV license for a useless service, even if you only have a radio. All I have is a computer monitor & the internet, yet they threaten me with £1,000 fines if I don't pay. The BBC has far more legal backing than I do. Why am I still legally obliged to pay the bill? And how do I get off this swindling roundabout? The BBC directors pay themselves ridiculous bonuses & give us nothing we can't find on the internet. Paying an ISP every month should cover me.

[801liveable]

BRYAN FERRY, says ENO is the funniest person he ever met..