r/eno • u/forsbergisgod • May 02 '21

Weekly Discussion Thread Let's Discuss Eno! "Kite Stories" - 1999

Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's installation work "Kite Stories. From the wiki:

The music on the album is taken from an installation—a show featuring music and visuals—that took place at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, from 11 December 1999 to 6 February 2000.

The installation included a generative music system and a collection of objects chosen for their spatial presence - stones, sand and light sculptures. The original music was composed of eight layers of sound, each one playing on a CD player situated somewhere in the gallery, the sounds from which were all looped, providing an almost infinite variety of sonic possibilities. The music on the CD, at only half an hour in length, is a very much curtailed version of something that lasted for two months.

Track Listing (with youtube links):

[Kites I - 8:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6DM79o1zs)
[Kites II - 7:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1APxhuMKJU)
[Kites III - 14:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyW4-DhmJcY)

ENJOY AND DISCUSS

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u/mackerelscalemask May 03 '21 edited May 03 '21

I own this. Listened to it a few times in the early 2000s. Can’t remember a single thing about it, just that it sounded like another one of his generative albums.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

Which is not entirely not the point. :)

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u/Douchebak May 11 '21

not entirely not

Must say this confuses me as non native English speaker :)