Eno - Reflection

**beerwolf** · November 15, 2016

https://bleep.com/release/77609-brian-eno-reflection

fumi · November 15, 2016

January 1st. Mmm. Good start to the new year.

**beerwolf** · November 15, 2016

Yeah Brian rang me up on the Batphone while I was chilling in the hammock in the Batcave

Redruth · November 15, 2016

obviously

**beerwolf** · November 15, 2016

Okay Brian didn't ring me up, but the Bathammock, the Batphone and Batcave? It's real.

Edited November 15, 2016 by beerwolf

**joshuatxuk** · November 16, 2016

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Reflection follows in the lineage of Brian Eno's long-running collection of 'Ambient' recordings that started with his 1973 collaboration with Robert Fripp, (No Pussyfooting) and 1975's Discreet Music.

Consisting entirely of one long form composition, Reflection mirrors perfectly Brian Eno's idea that 'Ambient' music is a term "to distinguish it from pieces of music that have fixed duration and rhythmically connected, locked together elements".

yesyesyesyesyes

KovalainenFanBoy · November 16, 2016

lol @ cover

usagi · November 22, 2016

ooh

**beerwolf** · November 22, 2016

hope Eno is on point and on target

Edited November 22, 2016 by beerwolf

**Lada Laika** · November 22, 2016

On 11/16/2016 at 8:59 PM, span said:
lol @ cover

Gonna look even better blown up on the vinyl jacket!

fumi · November 22, 2016

It's a terrible cover. Given Eno's art aesthetic and general good taste i.e Another Green World, Before And After Science, you'd think he would put more effort into that. Some of his covers overs the years are downright awful.

**beerwolf** · November 22, 2016

Definitly a HQ digital release for me, I'm not so precious as I used to be about physical versions. I'll slowly crawl out of my pit on New Years day and just zip it down the wire. Once the banana, berrocca, mineral water and milk thistle has worked its magic it'll be Ambient Eno Time........and I'll be happily snoozing fast asleep again within 10 minutes

Edited November 22, 2016 by beerwolf

purlieu · November 23, 2016

If he's happy to go back and re-cover old ground, I'd really love him to return to the ambient miniatures format of the instrumental stuff on Another Green World and Before & After Science, Apollo, and the Music for Films series. Short, evocative pieces made with a mixture of synths and live instrumentation. Always my favourite stuff of his.

Will be checking this on release, of course. Sometimes his longform ambient is totally on point (Music for Airports, Lux), sometimes it misses the mark for me (Neroli). But it's always worth a go.

fumi · December 17, 2016

According to this site, there will be an iOS app that plays an 'endless' version of Reflection.

Mmm. There's a lot of ways to define 'endless'.

http://www.factmag.com/2016/12/15/brian-eno-reflection-generative-music-app-endless/

Here too.

http://pitchfork.com/news/70448-brian-eno-details-generative-editions-of-new-album-reflection/

Edited December 17, 2016 by fumi

YangYing · December 17, 2016

On 12/17/2016 at 3:09 PM, fumi said:

According to this site, there will be an iOS app that plays an 'endless' version of Reflection.

Mmm. There's a lot of ways to define 'endless'.

http://www.factmag.com/2016/12/15/brian-eno-reflection-generative-music-app-endless/

Here too.

http://pitchfork.com/news/70448-brian-eno-details-generative-editions-of-new-album-reflection/

I read somewhere that he somehow managed to put his "conciousness" as an algorithm into the album so that it is ever-evolving. The idea is that in that way, Brian Eno will live forever...

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fumi · December 17, 2016

I will be very surprised if he has truly created a generative app that plays endlessly - with every moment unique and never repeated again. He does tend to hype these things and often him talking about an idea is infinitely more exciting than what he actually releases.

I remember all the hype around 77 Million Paintings - in reality it was just a screensaver.

Salvatorin · December 17, 2016

didn't autechre say they have basically achieved that already?

Ragnar · December 17, 2016

so that really is the cover? lol

fumi · December 18, 2016

Eno’s follow-up to his 2016 album The Ship further expands his pioneering catalog of ambient releases, including his full length LUX in 2012. Composed of just one 54-minute title track, the generative edition of Reflection was developed by Eno and his long-time collaborator Peter Chilvers. Here’s more from Eno on the generative Reflection versions being made available on Apple TV and iOS:

Reflection is the most recent of my Ambient experiments and represents the most sophisticated of them so far. My original intention with Ambient music was to make endless music, music that would be there as long as you wanted it to be. I wanted also that this music would unfold differently all the time – “like sitting by a river”: it’s always the same river, but it’s always changing. But recordings – whether vinyl, cassette or CD – are limited in length, and replay identically each time you listen to them. So in the past I was limited to making the systems which make the music, but then recording 30 minutes or an hour and releasing that. Reflection in its album form – on vinyl or CD – is like this. But the app by which Reflection is produced is not restricted: it creates an endless and endlessly changing version of the piece of music.

The creation of a piece of music like this falls into three stages: the first is the selection of sonic materials and a musical mode – a constellation of musical relationships. These are then patterned and explored by a system of algorithms which vary and permutate the initial elements I feed into them, resulting in a constantly morphing stream (or river) of music. The third stage is listening. Once I have the system up and running I spend a long time – many days and weeks in fact – seeing what it does and fine-tuning the materials and sets of rules that run the algorithms. It’s a lot like gardening: you plant the seeds and then you keep tending to them until you get a garden you like.

The app-based edition comes alongside more conventional vinyl LP, CD, digital download and streaming offerings. “Moving the composition into software allowed an extra opportunity,” said Chilvers. “The rules themselves could change with the time of day. The harmony is brighter in the morning, transitioning gradually over the afternoon to reach the original key by evening. As the early hours draw in, newly introduced conditions thin the notes out and slow everything down.”

fumi · December 20, 2016

Mmm. Where's that copy of Quaristice gone?

fumi · December 21, 2016

The iOS app will be (deep breath), £29.99 ($39.99).

Sweet Jesus, I thought it would be under a tenner at most.

https://warp.net/news/brian-eno-reflection-premium-generative-editions-released-on-1-january/

This is way, way more expensive than the acclaimed Bloom and his other apps.

Edited December 21, 2016 by fumi

Ragnar · December 22, 2016

for the cover he should've done like that time person of the year with the cheap mirror

YangYing · December 22, 2016

sounds interesting but that's way too expensive imo..

fumi · December 22, 2016

On 12/22/2016 at 5:16 PM, MIXL2 said:
sounds interesting but that's way too expensive imo..

yeah, he won't get many people buying it blind at that price. I think the most expensive app he's ever had in the Apple store was about £8. For something that supposedly plays infinitely, it's taking the piss.

fumi · December 22, 2016

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