Sound & Vision
FIFTY YEARS AGO, A YOUNG AND UNKNOWN Brian Eno, fresh out of the Winchester School of Art, scored his first movie: a six-and-a-half-minute experimental short by artist Malcolm Le Grice called Berlin Horse. It had no story and was constructed entirely of two short pieces of film. Which was perfect for Eno.
“It’s essentially two loops that are running out of sync with each other and projected on the top of one another,” he says. “This is what I was doing in music at the time. [The score] was exactly like the film, where it was one loop superimposed on another, two loops not of commensurable length so they don’t fit together in the same way. They keep generating different clusters.” The
