Brian Eno: How to Make A Drum Loop Interesting And Human - BBC Click

BBC Click's Spencer Kelly finds out how to make constantly changing drum loops and funk, using probabilities and complicated maths, from music legend Brian Eno.

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[anrque]

Brian has a future selling DAW software at Guitar Center.

[BobrLovr]

Your dad showing his friend how to use facebook

[ElectricFarmerCh]

Eno's simply giving the BBC the juice they want. I'm sure he's aware of many artists doing this but it wouldn't make the BBC look good if he said "Oh yeah, people have been doing this for years but never on the BBC because you're always a bit behind with cultural and artistic developments"

[CultureDTCTV]

"We're always one step behind him, he's Brian Eno !" ~MGMT

[MrDaoJones]

This interviewer is like an amazed child.

[TokyoUnderworld]

That interviewer looks way too excited, I bet he went straight home and downloaded the FL studio demo 😂

[TheGroovySideOftheTube]

Brian Eno - Creator of the "Oblique strategies" card deck.. (look it up if you don't know about it), producer of the Windows 95 Microsoft Sounds... produced Bowie, DEVO, Talking Heads best albums, co-producer credit on U2s The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby and All That You Can't Leave Behind, also Coldplay.. his ambient works and solo albums are fantastic, AND he's a gentleman too.

[Autogenification]

Well I guess Brian Eno wasn't aware of the world of algoraves or live coded music at the time of this interview - it's a scene of programming artists who manipulate loops and sounds with live coding, with some really amazing results! It's been around since, well Eno himself really brought about the first wave of it in the 70s with his style of electronic generative music! And of course not to forget about all the IDM artists (Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre etc.) who also have used these techniques in their productions.

It's odd seeing this demonstration and realising that he's unaware of the amazing spaces in electronic music that he's helped shape

[ohdippity]

2:19 Hunter S Thompson is alive and films Eno for a living.

[pipeandslippersman]

trans: 'just fiddle with it a bit'. actually - that might be eno's entire career in 6 words!

[simonfarrell]

ENO is a genius.. Introduced me to ambient music as a teenager, absolute legend... but this is nothing special to be honest

[greenatom]

The way to really use something like this is to use it to generate lots of possibilities, listen, choose those which sound good, and further refine and modify so that it communicates your feelings, as a human, to other humans.

[mikelee]

I was doing this with Cubase in 2003 with drums and midi instruments. (Probably was possible 6 or 7 years prior) Ableton has all of these features available with the stock effects. So is anyone else doing this? yes. Ever 14 year old kid around the world!

[matthewdotson]

This is an interesting writing prompt. Obviously Eno would continue messing around and collect the great bits and then remix those into a more refined song.

Reminds me of David Bowie's "Verbasizer" which is a word/sentence randomizer that David Bowie used to come up with interesting word combos.

It's a creative jumping off point.

[StuartRochabrunt]

Nothing surprising or really new here. This is so common that's even boring to show, but of course, it's Brian Eno, not the unknown bedroom-musicians-producers all over the world.

[positronikiss]

Mr Brian Eno.

Dreamcatcher, splendid aural painter, superb sonic psychologist. Such a wonderful musician.

[harryvincent]

Thought this was master chef for a second from the thumbnail..

[stevewills]

The James Bond of writing music that is timeless. Everyone should be listening!!!

[thedrumunkey]

"Is anyone else doing this?""Not that I know"

Apparently Mr Eno is unaware of the internets... Forums, YouTube, etc. he should really get out more.

[jayaybe]

Awesome clip, but why is the camera work so obtrusively bad?