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Generating and Organizing Variety in The Arts: Brian Eno
Generating and Organizing Variety in The Arts: Brian Eno
control over the whole structure and its behaviour. This ranking, as does military
reflects varying degrees of responsibility; conversely, it reflects varying
degrees of constraint on behavior. Ranking has another effect: like perspective in
painting, it creates "focus" and "point of view." A listener is given the impression
that there are a foreground and a background to the music and cannot fail to notice
that most of the "high-responsibility" events take place in the foreground, to which
the background is an ambience or counterpoint.' This is to say that the number of