Standing In The Long Now is the theme of the 2009 Greenbelt festival.
I've just read on the website of fellow radio bod Barrie Stephenson that the quote is taken from Brian Eno. It means taking a longer view as opposed to the "now” culture in which we live.
Read more on the 'long now' philosophy at the Long Now Foundation - or experience it when you're in the car queue to get into the event.
Brian is, to the unitiated, is a musician, kind-of-a-music-philosopher, and the father of modern ambient music. He is a hugely important cultural figure if you've ever listened to U2, watched David Lynch or, at one point, started up a computer.
So after me openly criticising Greenbelt for their lack of electronic music (and writing to them without much success), and am now in thrall and brimming with sparkling anticipation.
Incidentally, I once summed up Brian Eno's production career in a hugely influential and genre-bending diagram. It was so good, no-one has drawn a diagram since. I called it a Bri Chart.
1 comment:
interesting. eno was a painter who ended up painted with sounds.
i will be at greenbelt this year again, standing in the long now with everyone.
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