Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirt…

Brian Eno
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish. ✨ Interview with Michael Calore, www.wired.com. July 2, 2007.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish. ✨ Interview with Michael Calore, www.wired.com. July 2, 2007.

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