4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the |
0:03.8 | podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC. |
0:08.6 | It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world. |
0:15.0 | What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism |
0:20.0 | and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines. |
0:23.7 | And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject |
0:28.3 | you might not even have thought you were interested in. |
0:30.2 | Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment, |
0:36.1 | you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds. |
0:40.8 | My guest this week is a composer, |
0:43.0 | producer, artist and musical collaborator. |
0:46.0 | A founder member of Roxy Music, |
0:48.0 | he's worked with David Bowie, David Byrne, Coldplay and You 2. He produced this. |
0:55.0 | See the stone set in your eyes. |
0:59.0 | See the thorn twist in your side. And this. |
1:04.0 | And this. |
1:05.0 | I ride on a perfect free way. And he's been enormously influential as a composer of ambient and electronic music. |
1:18.0 | That's a genre of instrumental music without traditional song structure or rhythm that uses sound to evoke and |
1:25.6 | invoke a mood, a feeling, an emotion. Brian Eno |
1:37.0 | wouldn't claim he invented ambient music, but I would. |
1:40.0 | He turned it into a distinct art form. |
1:42.0 | It's all around us these days. |
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