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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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