{"id":16242,"date":"2014-07-01T02:35:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T02:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/eno-is-widely-known-for-coining-the-term-ambient\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T02:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T02:35:23","slug":"eno-is-widely-known-for-coining-the-term-ambient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/eno-is-widely-known-for-coining-the-term-ambient\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Eno is widely known for coining the term \u201cambient music,\u201d and he produced a clutch of critically revered albums in the nineteen-seventies and eighties\u2014by the Talking Heads, David Bowie, and U2, among others\u2014but if I had to choose his greatest contribution to popular music it would be the idea that musicians do their best work when they have no idea what they\u2019re doing. As he told Keyboard, in 1981, \u201cAny constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on\u2014including your own incompetence.\u201d The genius of Eno is in removing the idea of genius. His work is rooted in the power of collaboration within systems: instructions, rules, and self-imposed limits. His methods are a rebuke to the assumption that a project can be powered by one person\u2019s intent, or that intent is even worth worrying about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/musical\/2014\/07\/07\/140707crmu_music_frerejones\">Sasha Frere-Jones: Brian Eno\u2019s Quiet Influence\u00a0: The New Yorker<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/notational.tumblr.com\/\">notational<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eno is widely known for coining the term \u201cambient music,\u201d and he produced a clutch of critically revered albums in the nineteen-seventies and eighties\u2014by the Talking Heads, David Bowie, and U2, among others\u2014but if I had to choose his greatest contribution to popular music it would be the idea that musicians do their best work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4dY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}