Brian Eno . Generative Music 1
Im Jahr 1996 komponierte Brian Eno PC-Tunes mit Hilfe der SSEYO Koan Soundkarte. Sein Werk wurde danach exklusiv auf Floppy Disk veröffentlicht. Hören konnte man das Ganze dann nur wenn man auch eine SSEYO im eigenen Rechner hatte.
22.02.25
Mit anderen Soundkarten konnte man das alles nur verfälscht hören, was natürlich ein nices Kaufargument war. Heute sagen wir einfach „Chapeau Capitalism“ und genießen diesen rebuild aus dem Jahr 2024 smooth in diesem Clip.
In the interest of musical and technological preservation, I embarked on recovering Brian Eno’s „lost album“, ‚Generative Music 1‘, an extremely rare floppy-disk-only album that he released in 1996. ‚GM1′ is not like any other music album, especially for the time. Each ’song‘ is only a file that contains rules, variables, and instructions that it sends to a computer’s sound card. The sound card (a SoundBlaster AWE32 or SB32, or a TDK Music card) contains what is called a wavetable synthesis chip which, put simply, is a library of sound samples that can be played back or manipulated. The GM1 album calls upon this wavetable to generate a new version of each song every time you play it. As you hear different sessions that I’m posting, you will notice that certain choices Eno made were ‚fixed‘ while others were ‚fluid‘. GM1 is very dynamic, much like classical music. Expect very loud and quiet parts in each arrangement.
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