A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary
Eno kept a diary for 1995, then wrote appendices that outgrew it, covering generative music, Oblique Strategies, and the daily texture of actually working.
Eno’s diary for 1995, plus the appendices that grew longer than the diary itself, on generative music, Oblique Strategies, the failure of the CD-ROM, and the daily texture of a working life. Funny about ambition and unusually honest about boredom. The year covers work with Bowie and U2, but the memorable entries are domestic: school runs, admin, and the slow accumulation of ideas.
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Maria Popova
In 1995, shortly after a major retrospective of his work had been released, Brian Eno hit that point of pointlessness. In a stirring entry from A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary (public library), he writes
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