Tag Archives: Brian Eno

Autopoietic Music, 1 0

One of the chief attrac­tions of autopoi­etic works, aside from their strictly musi­cal qual­i­ties of course, is that they con­sti­tute a type of per­pet­ual music. Eno’s 1996 Gen­er­a­tive Music 1 included 12 recorded tracks and a copy of the soft­ware used to make them, thus allow­ing users to cre­ate their own, the­o­ret­i­cally end­less, autopoi­etic compositions.

In a roomful of shouting people 0

Peter Schmidt’s water­color still-lifes and land­scapes embody what I find most inter­est­ing about his work: its indif­fer­ence to the mon­u­men­tal and the superla­tive, and its focus on the quiet, the “insignif­i­cant,” the intimate.

Peter Schmidt gallery 2

This gallery con­tains a selec­tion of water color paint­ings by Peter Schmidt.