Interviews

Brian Eno And David Bowie in a live interview about Art Sale for War Child.

Not a great interview (or interviewer), but still interesting.

Brian Eno discusses his seminal ambient work, Music For Airports.

Vicmod continues its excellent series of interviews with synth gear designers with a talk with Harvestman’s Scott Yaeger. 

In the interview, Yaeger discusses the ideas behind his line of synth modules:

Those sounds are what I first heard when being introduced to electronically generated sounds at a young age. Atari 5200 and a Casio SK-1 with one of the batteries put in backwards… combined with my brother’s Synsonics drums this formed a great timbral influence. It was certainly more influential than the sounds that the polysynth mob were making those days.

I think a lot about power electronics and death industrial when considering system-level modular configurations, and to some degree individual module designs. It pleases me to hear them used in that context more than a lot of other things. I’m coming up on a decade as an enthusiastic listener and occasional composer and performer in related styles, and this appeal does find its way into my collection of instrument design ideas.

I don’t put much effort into anything unless there’s a good amount of defiance involved, so I guess there’s a parallel between noise actions and the design of my modules. That’s not saying much, though. In these days of ideological cowardice, self-confidence is itself a socially transgressive act.

Check out the full interview here.

Brian Eno discusses his favorite movie, Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 film, Barry Lyndon.

This video captures an interview with Brian Eno from the 80’s. 

Eno touches on a variety of topics, some of which are dated, but many which are still relevant.