"It started as a group of random sounds, fun electronic ..."

"You can go now I found a way to duplicate me," jokes Brian Eno at the very beginning of our conversation in his studio in West London.

holders, however. Eno is neither superfluous nor packaging in daily work. But when working with his collaborator Peter Chilvers has launched an application called Scape which allows any iPad owner to create "generative" music with some of his own composition and good tools.

was launched in early September, which is described in the App Store application "music makes you think for yourself" and "a new type of disc that gives users access to deep its musical elements. "

The creative side involves the creation of scenes - 'Scapes "- the choice of backgrounds and colors, shapes and then dragging them in various combinations. The result is a background music that is not under their direct control, but it is read from the scene that you created.

followed a previous application made by Eno and Chilvers, Bloom called, which was released for iPhone in the early days of the App Store: October 2008. However, Scape roots go a long way further than that.

"I became interested in the idea of ??music could, in a sense, in the 1960s, in fact, when I heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I started playing with tape recorders, "Eno said.

"I had two tape on the floor and a piece of tape connecting the two of them, which actually had a very long echo and sounds could be built over the other. "

Eno said that was interesting was how almost "lost control of the music," which became a theme desired.

"I thought it was very interesting to do as a composer was to build some sort of system or process that you have made of the composition. Then I had to feed entries in it, and would do so again set up and do something beyond what was expected, "he said.

"I worked on things like this for a while: Music for Airports and Discreet Music are examples, but they were represented recordings of these processes in action What I wanted was to be able to sell with process. someone not only my departure from it. "

Owning the process

Fast forward a few decades and is the subject of Scape, and associating Chilvers Eno - who had worked on similar ideas and compose music band generative Creatures series of computer games in mid-1990 and the end.

"He took me into a collision course with Brian," he said. "We tried to solve the same problem for different reasons."

Bloom as an existing application before the App Store, after Eno and Chilvers am excited about the possibility that the touchscreen smartphones after the launch of Apple's iPhone in the first half of 2007.

"Suddenly, you had the possibility of people are able to take ownership of the process rather than the results of the process," says Brian Eno, who adds that the couple worked as flower a demonstration of Flash in a Wacom tablet with a computer, hoping that Apple might offer a way for them to wear on the iPhone.

"It was a seed of hope for the future -" One day, an application store in the world and if you do, we have something they can sell .. . "Says Brian Eno

"If you look in retrospect, seems very logical that happened, given our two funds, and how all kinds of conspiring to get to this point."

After Bloom, wine Scape, which is probably explained by Brian Eno and Chilvers own demo video '

The couple explained that most of the sounds and Scape funds started in compositions full of Eno, before being cut by the application.

"Often, things started here, music, and were then removed in their genes. It is a form of recombinant genes to make new creatures, "he said. "It began as the music does not start as a group of random sounds, electronic fun. They all used to work in the company of others."

Scape also highlights which is supposed to be a listening experience, and not just throw sounds in the background.

indicated how they can continue to run in the background while using other applications - "people could use it to read" - as well as the ability to listen and Eno Chilvers simple landscapes ", and 10 arranged in an album.

"One reason I wanted to put some of our own work on what you need to show people that this is really listening rather than playing all the time," says Brian Eno.

"As soon as you get another sound, you spend a little time with her is like making an entire album added, the gradual drip function," said Chilvers. "We are very curious to see how people react to it. They get the most out of it if you are patient. Might take a month to unlock everything. "

Some of the sounds are new, but others are older. Two bass over 10 years ago, and more than 20 years as Eno - another sign of his desire to give people some tools used for composition has its own music
"There are certain sounds that I found that works well in almost any context," he said. "Their role is not so much musical space: define the edges of territory of the music ... These are pictorial elements that create the foreground and background, and make space in the middle where the trigger, and this is the space. then can put things in. "

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