Lee Barry Composition Diary

2/5/2005 The Eno album I’ve always liked is On Land , but I also like his pop material, e.g. Before and After Science. Like Cage, he melded the philosophical and conceptual with music. What I used later on was the idea of “avoiding” music, but ultimately I became a “born again” musician. I suppose I just like playing. But the way I write and record was heavily influenced by Eno. This is what Eno would have said about Cage.  Interesting: Black MIDI is a way to use something for it wasn’t originally intended for special effects. The main purpose is to introduce extreme ideas as brute force to heave oneself out of ruts. (Go to an extreme and retreat to a more useful position). It’s also another form of slippage—using the punched hole as the printer dot.          2/5/2011 Prediction: By 2016, the Internet of Things will have grown exponentially and will pervade social media. Text messaging will become automatic and will obviate the need to type into a mobile d...