Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems

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Game designer Will Wright and musician Brian Eno discuss the generative systems used in their respective creative works. This clip features original music by Brian Eno.

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Will Wright and Brian Eno on "Playing with Time."

In a dazzling duet Will Wright and Brian Eno give an intense clinic on the joys and techniques of "generative" creation.

Back in the 1970s both speakers got hooked by cellular automata such as Conway's "Game of Life," where just a few simple rules could unleash profoundly unpredictable and infinitely varied dynamic patterns. Cellular automata were the secret ingredient of Wright's genre-busting computer game "SimCity" in 1989. Eno was additionally inspired by Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain," in which two identical 1.8 second tape loops beat against each other out of phase for a riveting 20 minutes. That idea led to Eno's "Music for Airports" (1978), and the genre he named "ambient music" was born.

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Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: December 4, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Author: ForaTv

Length: 00:10:39
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Video Comments:
aardschokker2 (September 12, 2008 at 10:25 pm)
What is that drawing program called?
Or what is the name Will is mentioning?
ockfener (July 21, 2008 at 8:22 am)
Will a bit lacking in the listening skills area?

Just seems that way a bit.
Moothyknight4534 (July 10, 2008 at 11:32 pm)
this is Mirek's Cellebration app for game of life
Ironwolf200 (June 23, 2008 at 7:03 am)
Wow, what is that program he's using? Looks like fun.
widewombat (April 9, 2008 at 3:10 pm)
It's just the Game of Life.. Isn't that really old? Like long before computers old.
R055HP (May 19, 2008 at 6:55 pm)
But, which Game of Life program was he using? It seems avery good version.
AppA (March 13, 2008 at 8:40 pm)
I should propably kill Brian Eno for the last words he said.
But... then again, he does point out that our brain sometimes tendss to illude usss.
Provocarate (April 8, 2008 at 10:58 pm)
I don't follow...?
AppA (April 9, 2008 at 2:05 am)
Sync = weeeeeee! (for me).

Video [-sync] Audio = Audio [+sync] Video (for most of us).
nerdofthenation (February 18, 2008 at 4:18 am)
Great! this is why I go on youtube.