1982: BRIAN ENO does NOT like ELECTRONIC SOUNDS! | Riverside | Music | BBC Archive

"I generally don't like electronic sounds that much, which you might find surprising..."

Producer and performer Brian Eno talks to the BBC about synthesizers.

"I find natural sound, or sound produced from non-electronic sources, to be so rich and so interesting. And yet, the interesting thing about electronic sound is that it's very easy to manipulate."

"The synthesizer seems, to me, to present you with a position where you could turn natural sound into electronic sound and use some of the freedoms that the synthesizer then allowed you."

"Instead of just using the synthesizer, I use the whole studio as an appendage to the instrument in that way."

"The illusion with the big synthesizers is that somewhere among all those wires is the thing that's gonna save the day for you - and it's never true."

Brian Eno interview with Mike Andrews.

Clips taken from Riverside: The Synthesizer, People and Performance.

Originally broadcast 1 November, 1982.

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