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	Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK
		The music, rather than dominating Eno's consciousness, was more a part of the general ambience of the room; no more or less a part of the sounds that invaded Eno's perception than drops of rain on a window pane.
		The back cover of Discreet Music has a diagram that explains, in technical terms, how Eno was able to take two simple synthesizer themes and, by feeding them through two tape recorders, equalization and an echo unit, build a thirty-minute piece of graceful beauty.
		Discreet Music almost works best at low volumes, where it is only a part of the listener's complete aural experience.
	www.moredarkthanshark.org /eno_int_aaj-dec04.html (1421 words)

	Discreet Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Discreet Music (1975) is an album by the British ambient musician Brian Eno.
		This means music that is intended to blend into the ambient atmosphere of the room rather than directly focused upon.
		After struggling to put the record on the turntable and returning to bed, he realized that it was turned down toward the threshold of inaudibility and he lacked the strength to turn it up.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Discreet_Music (574 words)

	Generative music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Linguistic/Structual: music composed from analytic theories that are so explict as to be able to generate structurally coherent material (Loy and Abbott 1985; Cope 1991).
		This perspective has its roots in the generative grammars of language (Chomsky 1956) and music (Lerdahl and Jackendoff 1983), where 'generative' is similar to recursive.
		Many software programs are now available to create generative music, such as SSEYO's Koan Pro (1994-2005) (used by Brian Eno to create his hybrid album 'Generative Music 1'), Karlheinz Essl's Lexikon-Sonate (1992-2004) and MusiGenesis (2005), a program that evolves music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Generative_music (472 words)

	Brian Eno: Discreet Music / Ambient 1: Music for Airports / Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror [with Harold Budd] / ...
		Discreet Music / Ambient 1: Music for Airports / Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror [with Harold Budd] / Ambient 4: On Land
		In music, this figure took the form of his own voice, a cohesive melody, and other evidence of human intervention-- by eliminating these, he created a sense of space where there was once an object.
		The most direct outgrowth of Eno's epiphanal experience was the Discreet Music, released in the same year as his accident; indeed, he recommended that it be played over hospital speakers to create an environment soothing to patients (it has, in fact, become a popular piece for expecting mothers).
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/17480/Brian_Eno_Discreet_Music_Ambient_1_Music_for_Airports_A (2144 words)

	Retreating To A Useful Position (1).
		This experience (possibly enhanced by a lot of painkillers) caused him to begin thinking of music in a new way: as something that existed not in the foreground, or even the background, but blended with the environment in such a way that it both enhanced it and was indistinguishable from it.
		This makes Eno's Ambient Music all sound overtly intellectual which it both is and isn't-- at least as far as thinking about the music is concerned-- after all, you can analyze Eno's technique or you can just listen to a bunch of really nifty, mysterious sounds, or not.
		This gives his music a feeling of sonic colour, and in his more successful pieces he conveys a kind of synesthesia-- a sense of "listening" to a "canvas" rather than experiencing music with a beginning, middle and end, or a verse-chorus-verse structure.
	members.tripod.com /~briancotts/cottsweb/thirty/thirtyep51.html (3565 words)

	BRIAN ENO Discreet Music review
		It is here where Eno describes how he found a new way of hearing music, lying hurt on a bed without being able to turn the stereo's volume up.
		To make music technically with the least possible participation is hardly something to win audience's admiration.
		If the result sounded irritating, I would call it emperor's new clothes, but as this music can be both ignored and enjoyed in ameditative way, I rate it in the middle.
	www.progarchives.com /Review.asp?id=35945 (250 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Brian Eno
		The tone of the music is darker overall than on the first album; though Eno was already beginning to show a mistrust of pop forms, the songs here are filled with humor and joy and his continuing taste for experimentation.
		Discreet Music (as well as his two collaborations with Robert Fripp) was first devised while Eno was recovering from an auto accident, and it marks his experimental break from pop forms, using classical structures as the basis for tape loops and manipulations.
		Ambient music, which goes directly against Western tradition by not demanding explicit attention from the listener, was introduced on Music for Airports, a stark but hypnotic collection of sounds especially composed for airport sound systems to inure passengers to flying and death.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=brian_eno (1746 words)

	Discreet Music Liner Notes
		"Discreet Music" is a technological approach to the problem.
		It is a point of discipline to accept this passive role, and for once, to ignore the tendency to play the artist by dabbling and interfering.
		This presented what was for me a new way of hearing music - as part of the ambience of the environment just as the colour of the light and the sound of the rain were parts of that ambience.
	music.hyperreal.org /artists/brian_eno/discreet-txt.html (663 words)

	The Sleeve Notes for Quiet001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The term ambient captures the idea that this is music that blends into the background becoming part of the ambience of the room subtly influencing the environment it is played in.
		The system used on the original ambient piece ’Discreet Music’ is inspired by the Steve Reich piece ‘It’s Gonna Rain’, which uses two tape loops.
		Music created in this manner has no real beginning or end, theoretically the listener could enter at any point, and in theory the music would go on creating itself forever.
	www.baxter906.freeserve.co.uk /Writings/sleeve_notes_for_quiet001.htm (445 words)

	Brian Eno: Ambient Forefather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		When Roxy Music keyboardist Brian Eno and King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp first put together two Revox tape recorders in 1973, making it possible to build layer-upon-layer of sound, the result was a kind of music the likes of which had never been heard before.
		The music, rather than dominating Eno's consciousness, was more a part of the general ambience of the room; no more or less a part of the sounds that invaded Eno's perception than drops of rain on a window pane.
		Music that, through its combinations of found sounds processed and placed in well-considered places in the stereo image - this is a recording that is best listened to in headphones - evokes strong imagery of places real and imagined.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=15608 (1401 words)

	Brian Eno and the Ambient Series - Article - Stylus Magazine
		Discreet Music (released a month after Green World on Obscure) was an altogether different beast, though it did share its predecessor’s somnambulant tones.
		Musically, the record was equally arid—overlong, brutally repetitive, much of it sounding like the cutting-room floor scraps from a rejected Paul Bley ECM release.
		Running musical interpretations of half-memories and associations through echo effects, synthesizers and 70-second reverbs, Eno was turning the Bush of Ghosts controversy regarding the propriety of sound on its head, in essence, committing his memory of childhood to tape.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=1250 (5537 words)

	ZA@PLAY - MUSIC: Wild Life March 12 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		I arrived a little late with my LP copies of 1975's Discreet Music and his 1980 collaboration with David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, close at hand, hoping for an autograph at least, a word at most.
		With the music collected on the aforementioned Discreet Music, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and, says, 1990's Nerve Net, Mr Eno set off something of a quiet revolution (never mind what wearing all those frocks in his Roxy Music days did for sexual liberation).
		Discreet Music is quite literally the seed of the quiet revolution, and it's where the term "ambient" music entered our lexicon.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/music/column/980312-wild.html (533 words)

	Brian Eno: Discreet Music - PopMatters Music Review
		And if the title track was the element most responsible for such plaudits, it sadly came at the expense of the rest of the album, "Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel," the warmth to the lovely chill of the album's first half.
		Giving snatches of "Canon" to string players and monkeying with the tempi and alignment of the parts, Eno makes music just as calm and beautiful as "Discreet Music", but with none of the electronic wizardry that so many of his disciples would hide behind when they were out of ideas.
		With Discreet Music, Eno broke ground in the background, and good for him that he did, but nearly 30 years on, it's hard not to wish that he had given us some more time standing front and center.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/e/enobrian-discreetmusic.shtml (697 words)

	AMBIENT 1/MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS
		Music for Airports marks the beginning of Brian Eno’s Ambient series of recordings, though Discreet Music is his first true full-length ambient recording (and No Pussyfooting his first all-instrumental album if you want to get technical).
		Music for Airports isn’t, representing a sort of halfway point between Discreet Music and the subsequent Plateaux of Mirror.
		Music for Airports is interesting in its approach to sounds as wave-based entities.
	www.connollyco.com /discography/brian_eno/airports.html (369 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Discreet Music: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		DISCREET MUSIC is Brian Eno's first break with pop music infavour of a quieter, more meditative form, and it came about by accident.
		There are other, parallel sides to Brian's musical work, and 'Discreet Music' is the first example of a particular strand of experimentation.
		While I haven't had that experience, I can say that this music, which I first bought as a teenager in the 70s, has travelled the world with me and even now is never far from a stereo of some kind.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000026GJD (740 words)

	DISCREET MUSIC
		Eno’s idea was to create music that could be played in the background, at such low levels that it might escape casual attention.
		The album cover features a simple diagram that shows how Discreet Music was created: a synthesizer with digital recall is run through an equalizer (which Eno would fiddle with), an echo unit, and then through a tape recorder that played back the delayed output alongside the current output.
		In the traditional sense, Discreet Music really isn’t music, and this is where Eno’s peculiar genius pays off: blurring the distinction between sound and music while drawing listeners into a unique and compelling musical environment.
	www.connollyco.com /discography/brian_eno/discreet.html (259 words)

	Discreet Music by Brian Eno CD
		DISCREET MUSIC is Brian Eno's first break with pop music in favor of a quieter, more meditative form, and it came about by accident.
		When Eno was confined to bed after an auto accident, a visitor brought him an album of classical music, which he mistakenly put on the stereo at a very low volume.
		The several lengthy pieces on DISCREET MUSIC are named after quotes from the liner notes of a recording of Pachebel's Canon in D, which also provides the structure of the pieces themselves.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6776662/a/Discreet+Music.htm (342 words)

	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Discreet Music
		DISCREET MUSIC is Brian Eno's first break with pop music in favour of a quieter, more meditative form, and it came about by accident.
		When Eno was confined to bed after an auto accident, a visitor brought him an album of classical music, which he mistakenly put on the stereo at a very low volume.
		The several lengthy pieces on DISCREET MUSIC are named after quotes from the liner notes of a recording of Pachebel's Canon in D, which also provides the structure of the pieces themselves.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/album.jsp?albumId=41985 (149 words)

	Ambient 1: Music for Airports (Music; General) on 43 Folders Store (ASIN: B000003S2K) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Eno's theory of the "discreet music" he called ambient was far from the modern chill-out room: the idea was that it should function at very low volumes, unobtrusively coloring the atmosphere of a room.
		Listening to music, along with brushing my teeth or bathing or eating, is one of the few things in my life which I do with such consistency that it has almost become an unconscious behavior.
		Yet, there are times when I listen to music that I can't quite grasp what I'm listening to; or the music feels heavy and whines in my ears; or the music just doesn't move me in any particular way.
	store.43folders.com /music-301668-B000003S2K-Ambient_1_Music_for_Airports (1025 words)

	Alternative Rock - Discreet Music [Astralwerks] - Brian Eno free mp3 full albums download (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Broken into two halves, the extended "Discreet Music" and "Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel", the music is delicate, balanced, beautiful, and stirring.
		"Discreet Music" consists, per Eno's description in the liner notes, of "two simple and mutually compatible melodic lines of different duration stored on a digital recall system" that are occasionally altered "by means of a graphic equalizer".
		As far as Ambient 1, Music for Airports...well, this is a prime candidate for the greatest CD of all time.
	www.playtunes.net /album/3138.html (479 words)

	VirginMusic.ca: Brian Eno: "Discreet Music "
		In his liner notes to this album, Eno first defines what 'music as ambience' means.
		Much of the music from these four albums is often used as background music in television or radio today.
		The music is not 'remastered' but instead has been re-transferred by Simon Heyworth from the original analogue masters as they are not technically re-EQ'd but transferred to the digital domain using the best technology.
	www.virginmusic.ca /artist_page_disco.asp?section=disco&upc_id=724386649423&artist_id=454 (160 words)

	Eno, Brian - Discreet music - Groove Unlimited
		In an interview around the time this album was released, Eno said that he wanted to make music which was very delicate and gentle...
		Discreet Music achieves this wonderfully, and is a very effective extension of the album he did with Robert Fripp the same year called Evening Star (which contained "Wind On Wind", a short excerpt of Discreet Music).
		Consisting of the 30 minute-plus title track, and 3 rather interesting variations on The Canon In D Major By Johann Pachelbel, most of album is very soothing and calming (the only exception would be the last of the Pachelbel Variations, "Brutal Ardour", which is rather melancholy and restless).
	www.groove.nl /cd/1/15672.html (262 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Brian Eno: biography, discography, reviews, links
		The result was similar to the novelty numbers and the "bubblegum" music of the early 1960s, but it had the charisma of sheer post-modernist genius.
		Music For Airports (1978) presented the result: "ambient music", a music made of static drones and languid notes, a music that hardly changes at all, that hardly betrays any feeling at all, music that is meant "not" to be listened to, the avantgarde equivalent of supermarket muzak.
		He pioneered electronic music for the audience of rock music, but somehow was never fully in command of what happened later (particularly, the digital revolution).
	www.scaruffi.com /vol3/eno.html (5988 words)

	Amazon.com: Discreet Music: Music: Brian Eno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		"Discreet Music," therefore, is a landmark recording, and shows Eno's inherant understanding of the reality he stumbled upon that day in the hospital when the volume was just low enough to be audible but little else.
		"Discreet Music" is a masterpiece of texture and ambience, while his interpretations of "Canon in D" showcase his willing to experiment some in classical music (as was Harold Budd, at the time.
		With "Discreet Music", Eno, using a minimal amount of input (two separate but compatible melody lines), some tape recorders and a delayed echo system, created one of the loveliest, most relaxing ambient pieces ever produced.
	www.amazon.com /Discreet-Music-Brian-Eno/dp/B000003S2Q (1537 words)

	Movies.com: Marketplace
		Broken into two halves, the extended "Discreet Music" and "Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel", the music is delicate, balanced, beautiful, and stirring.
		"Discreet Music" consists, per Eno's description in the liner notes, of "two simple and mutually compatible melodic lines of different duration stored on a digital recall system" that are occasionally altered "by means of a graphic equalizer".
		The "Three Variations on the Canon in D Major" is more consistent with the stylisation of 'Classical' music, with it less akin to 'Ambient' music, and more in keeping with the compositional elegance and arrangement of piano led orchestration.
	movies.go.com /marketplace/details?asin=B0002PZVGQ&allreviews=true (877 words)

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