2017/05/28 03:38:25
Magic Russ
Apparently Brian Eno shared a few patches he made for the DX-7 in an issue of Keyboard magazine in the 80s.  
http://cdm.link/2017/05/get-original-dx7-patches-made-brian-eno-1987/
 
http://encyclotronic.com/patches/yamaha/fm-patches/brian-eno-yamaha-dx7-patches-r12/
 
2017/05/28 20:06:25
Jeff Evans
Once you get these patches you will be able to compose great ambient soundscapes just like Eno himself.
 
Don't hold your breath.  These 4 sounds are not killer by any means.  Very Eno like I guess.  Compared to the 20 or 30 thousand other DX7 patches I have they are just what they are.  These would only form a tiny part of one of his ambient textures.  It is easier to become a member and download the Sysex file which FM7/8 can directly import.
 
 
2017/05/31 03:19:37
Magic Russ
I posted the link before I had a chance to check them out.  Like you said they sound just like anyone else's DX7 patches.
2017/05/31 09:02:48
Jeff Evans
Thanks for the link. Appreciated. There might be some other good sounds on those links. The ENO patches have this very pure like quality which ENO seems to like. But as I said they would only form a very small part of the overall sound compared to the rest of the textures he tends to build behind.
 
ENO has just released a new CD called 'Reflections' which is still very ambient but nice. He has also released the same CD as an IOS app as well where the tracks will never repeat themselves.  He is obviously randomly combining things which sounds interesting to me.  Also came across this little ENO gem too which is the soundtrack to an installation. Titled Dormienti
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qEu0kuoKEQ&t=1513s
 
 
2017/05/31 17:57:14
tlw
The IOS version of Reflections seems to do more than play tracks in a random order - it's very much like his Neroli CD with it's single long track only it somehow makes an integrated musical work out of shifting which sounds get played when and what gets played next to what while still making musical sense. It probably helps that, like Neroli, there's only one or two sounds at a time and the transients tend to be spaced out a bit with long reverbs filling the space in between.

Peter Chilvers gets the credit for "architecture" and Eno for the music/sounds.

It's a very well done, well produced and interesting work. The ambience does tend towards being a bit unsettling and spooky at times though.
2017/05/31 18:15:27
Jeff Evans
Yes you are right and I was unclear in what I meant. By tracks never reporting themselves I mean the overall ambient sound never repeating. The elements of the music randomly combined which is the sort of thing Eno also likes to do.
 
In one installation he had many speakers placed around the venue, each one only contributing one certain element of the ambient soundscape affect and depending on where you were standing you got very different mixes of each element so the music would have changed as you walked around. I pinched the idea and did a very similar thing in an installation. And to worked amazingly well. 
 
I suppose if he has got some dark elements in the music there is going to be a time when they are all are being played together and not much of anything else.  So then the music might appear spooky.  This new synth from NI 'Thrill' is pretty cool in this mode. See the other organic pad thread in here.
2017/05/31 19:20:51
bapu
And here I thought we were supposed to contribute DX-7 patches in order to free Mr. Eno (from what I'm still not sure of.... his own self-importance?).
 
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