But toward the middle intrusive, dreading brass barges in-for Eno, an unusually aggressive, forboding move. Softly disconnected speaking voices chatter in the background, suggesting the confusion of a morning wake-up sequence, and “(i)” ends with the uncertainty of diminished chords. Technology sounds like it’s encroaching toward its terminus as rough sonar beeps and shuttering cameras slip themselves into the musical stream without much warning. “Fickle Sun (i)” slowly unravels into the amplitude of global information and possibly infinite space itself. The title track drifts along on an expansive sea that feels more open as it goes along, growing with realization and the inevitability of largeness. Its codes are basically the same, but the effective images are large, global. Listeners connected the sparse music and quietude to themselves. Eno’s empathetic ambient works have felt small and intimate. Part of that opposition has to do with how Eno expands his reach on The Ship. Moments of uncertainty-brief rhythmic ruffles, detuned orchestras, distant and illegible voices-coax into the ambience and almost oppose it. Anchored with two tracks that clock in at over eighteen minutes each, The Ship establishes a broad, patient pulse with whole tones, then slips in mood detail and remote information at different waves and levels throughout the expanse of the tracks. The same directed volatility informed Eno’s strategy for The Ship, which somewhat surprisingly is the first time Eno’s combined his vocals with ambient music. Then, he lets a computer arrange the pieces and randomize the parameters for the artwork to exist within.” This technique guaranteed a different effect for each patron in the experience.
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Eno developed special software to display images as randomly overlapping, constantly moving patterns of colour and light. For one such work, 77 Million Paintings at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary in 2011, the press release explained that Eno’s music and visuals were “‘generative’ – a technique where the artist has no control over the final outcome. The Ship is an outgrowth of Eno’s recent “immersive installations” at museums and galleries across the world. Lesser hands would let technology take too much of the work over, whereas Eno always treated the listener like an unmentioned but very present character in the story. For that reason Eno’s work has been both extremely influential and uncopiable. It’s almost as if one of the last half-century’s most authoritative philosophers about music technology was almost reticent to use it.
This shouldn’t be a great revelation as works like Music for Airports were intended to both accompany and absorb public environments. Brian Eno’s ambient music, and the more restrained of his solo rock albums like Another Green World, always felt like it stemmed from an obscurely empathetic perspective.
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