Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing

Brian Eno
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Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. ✨ Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music. Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.
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