A Sense of Doubt blog post #4033 - I Watched the Eno Movie!

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4033 - I Watched the Eno Movie!

I took time off work, bought a ticket to a screening of the Eno movie, and watched it Thursday 2/26 from 11 a.m. my time to 12:30 p.m.

https://www.chanceoperations.com/events

https://www.hustwit.com/eno

I should have taken notes.

I should have turned on an audio recorder.

I could buy another showing, but I also feel that recording it is a violation of trust (beyond the legal issues).

And I hope that some day they release a version or maybe multiple versions of the movie.

SOME DAY.

Here's my previous post about the movie.

Saturday, July 27, 2024

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3448 - Eno Documentary

I did buy another showing and then I took notes (no recording). 

The movie was different the second time. There was a DEVO segment and not a Roxy Music segment. Some of the clips appear to possibly be standard clips but they appeared in a different order.

Here's my notes, from memory from the first viewing:

"Art is the way we synchronize our feelings about things," Eno said.

What if art is just about feelings? Nothing more than that.

Isn't that enough?

Early in the version I watched, Eno posed the question - why do we like music?

He theorized that music came before language.

But why is one set of notes preferred to another, why one beat over another beat? Why do we like that? What is it about?

Concerts are about BELONGING. The sense of belonging is the strongest sense of all, Eno suggested. The desire to belong is stronger than the sexual impulse, the desire to get ahead and be on top of the heap. We all want to belong.

Concerts, BIG concerts, give us the experience of being part of something greater than ourselves, something bigger. We want that experience. We need it.

Eno spoke of his interest in evolutionary theory, of complexity arising from simplicity.

Eno often thinks of nature -- what would this thing be like in nature?

So many other things, but those are the big impressions I wanted to get down right now.

Also, Fela Kuti, which I featured in Music Monday.

Also, an oblique strategy that made me see something with my book:

Honor thy error as a hidden intention (see link and images below).

HERE'S my notes FROM THE SECOND VIEWING - TRANSCRIBED: 

Viewed 2602.27

Eno recommended John Cage's book Silence as pivotal in his development as an artist,

Following on the earlier comment (above) on art as synchronizing feelings, Eno explained that art has often been considered a way to express our thinking, to express philosophy, but does it have to be that grandiose?

The first song that Eno remembers as an embodiment of a female, a woman: 

Ketty Lester - Love Letters

Early song that influenced Eno both in its doo-wop style and what doo-wop does vocally but how he never wanted to have a job.

Silhouettes - "Get a Job"

It was also an introduction to black American music, which was not something happening in England at the time.

In discussing his early playing with androgyny, Eno said he didn't really feel like a man nor like a woman, and that he wore make up because he looked better with make up.

He added that he has always been interested in the space between things.

He told a story about the recording of his album Another Green World and specifically the song "Spirit Drifting."

He explained that he recorded "Spirit Drifting" with tears streaming down his face because he didn't feel like he knew what the fuck he was doing, but he had paid a lot of money for studio time, and he had to do something. He had to use the time and deliver an album.

The point of the story was that what may seem like shit in the creation of it will take on another life after it's done, and perception by others may not be that it's shit.

LEARN TO TRUST YOURSELF

He said, as the key lesson there.

In discussing music and why we love it, he also described concerts, large concerts of 10,000 - 20,000 people as an experience we need because we feel part of a BIGGER YOU. This is also where he discussed the drive to belong which I described in the first set of notes.

Eno claimed that SINGING IS THE KEY TO WORLD PEACE.

The more singing groups that exist, people would be happier.

In describing the OBLIQUE STRATEGIES, he said that the main impetus was to question one's habits as an artist. This questioning is necessary. Maybe the habits are good and valuable and maybe they are not. But the constant examination of these habits is part of the creation process.

There was a segment in the second viewing not in the first about his discovery of futurists like Stewart Brand, Peter Schwartz, and others.

"We depend on each other more and more these days and understand each other less and less."

Eno quotes:

"Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."

This comes from an author he names and I didn't catch it. Internet says Bill Gates but that's not who Eno named.

The ambition of art is that we want to understand how the world of feelings works.

I could recall more (DEVO was difficult to work with, or he played with tape recorders and synth in Roxy Music), but that's most of the big stuff that struck me and I wanted to remember.

See this movie if you get the chance.

I hope to see it again.

https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

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