Extracts from Music for White Cube, London 1997

by Ted Mills A limited edition document of the soundtrack to one of Brian Eno's installations at the White Cube Gallery, London, this CD features a further exploration of time-stretching software used by other computer composers such as Carl Stone and Barry Truax. Here, Eno sang one long note into a tape recorder as he stood outside in the city of London. This note, including all the ambient street sounds behind him, became stretched and manipulated into one- to 24-minute tracks, with noticeable (and recognizable) differences: thunderstorms, chimes (Big Ben?), taxis, and general city ambience, get slowed down to sonic taffy. At turns it's pleasant and menacing. In the installation, Eno had four of these CDs playing randomly in various gallery locations. One may be enough for the home, if you can find one. The print run was only 500.