January 07003
Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
By Brian Eno

This record has grown out of the Long Now Foundation's project - the Clock of the Long Now. This is an idea to create a working clock which will mark time for ten thousand years - not really because we need more clocks in the world, but because we need more encouragement to start contemplating the possibility of a distant human future. The Clock of the Long Now is an icon to long-term thinking.

When we started thinking about The Clock, we naturally wondered what kind of sound it could make to announce the passage of time. I had nurtured an interest in bells for many years, and this seemed like a good alibi for taking it a bit deeper.

I began reading about bells, discovering the physics of their sounds, and became interested in thinking about what other sorts of bells might exist. My speculations quickly took me out of the bounds of current physical and material possibilities, but I considered some licence allowable since the project was conceived in a time scale of thousands of years, and I might therefore imagine bells with quite different physical properties from those we now know. And as I started trying to make bell sounds with my synthesizers, I got diverted by some of the more attractive failures.

-- Brian Eno

All profits from the sale of this record will be donated to the Long Now Foundation. The first prototype of the Clock is working and on permanent display at the Science Museum in London. This CD has fifteen tracks and a total playing time of 75 mins 43 seconds.

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Press Coverage

Article Name	Author	Publication	Date
Record Review	Stephen Fruitman	Sonomu.net	July 02004
Brian Eno January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now (Opal)	Jeff Stratton	New Times Broward-Palm Beach (Florida)	December 18, 02003
Playlist	Jon Pareles	The New York Times	August 24, 02003
For Whom The Bells Toll	David Bank	The Wall Street Journal	August 14, 02003
Tick Tock, Tick Tock	Michael Bracewell	Sunday Independent UK	July 27, 02003
Billboard Bits: Twain, Who, Eno, Bad Moon Music	Troy Carpenter	Billboard.com	June 6, 02003
Brian Eno sort un album pour "penser à long terme"	Alexandre Piquard	Transfert.net	June 5, 02003

 

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