RE: CLOCK - Eno Looooong time stretch

[David Kirkdorffer <DKirkdorffer@exapps.com>]

He's kicked the idea around for a while -- at least since 1996 where he
mentions it in his Diary.  One of the goals of the project is to create
something that has a very long arc of continuity. And in so doing creates a
unity across large time-scales.

It's an attempt to thwart the ever increasing pressures to experience
immediate and fleeting events.

This one would be something that generations of people could share the same
way.

David Kirkdorffer



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Carter [mailto:Jim.Carter@bristol.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 5:23 AM
To: list server loopers delight
Subject: Eno Looooong time stretch


Not loop related but ....

I Heard an interview with Brian Eno on Radio 4 (UK quality radio) 
this morning representing the Society for the Extended Present
(or something similar) who are deticated to increasing the
attention span. 
According to the interview he would like to build a clock which
ticks once a year and "bongs" once a century. 
Is this an example of preplanned silence? Will he sample it for
a composition? Is this just a means of building suspense?
Should I stop listening to interviews before I'm properly awake?


Jim Carter

e-mail jim.carter@bris.ac.uk