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In a prepared statement, Eno describes Reflector as a "generative" work because the sounds "make themselves."
"My job as a composer is to set in place a group of sounds and phrases, and then some rules which decide what happens to them," Eno says. "I then set the whole system playing and see what it does, adjusting the sounds and the phrases and the rules until I get something I'm happy with. Because those rules are probabilistic (often taking the form 'perform operation x, y percent of the time') the piece unfolds differently every time it is activated. What you have here is a recording of one of those unfoldings."
Eno's description of this generative method for making music echoes how he originally described his first ambient album, Discreet Music, released in 1975. He later followed with similar records, including Ambient 1: Music For Airports and More Music For Films. Eno's most recent album, The Ship, included vocals and came out in April of this year.
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Satri Pencak is an independent art curator with an M.A. in Art History. She writes about the visual arts for her website, 
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