Inside Brian's Brain Click - Short Edition

A wizard who likes decibels, who has won Grammies,

The former member of the band, Roxy Music, has added his unique

production sound to the biggest acts in the world -

groups like U2 and Coldplay, and some chap called David.

And it is his love of random, so-called generative art,

Eno, whose sonar music is very atmospheric and ethereal,

is regarded as 'The Godfather' of ambient music and his new work,

Reflection, is also rather unpredictable.

It is a generative music app which follows rules defined

and refined by Eno but which plays differently every time you listen.

So 14% of these notes, a random 14%, are going to be pitched down

The second is 41% of them are going to go an octave down

I would go further, quantum scientist.

Brian Eno has spent weeks, even months, tweaking these rules

and probabilities which, they're all when combined,

cause these sounds to randomly echo, bounce, transpose or not

So these are all different types of scripters.

And then there's a whole lot of other stuff.

A lot of music is based just on things like that and it goes

Now I will putting in some scripters.

First thing I'm going to put in is a way of reducing

Now, let's have it hit some outdrums, occasionally.

Already it is a pretty crappy drummer, I have to say.

Well, no, I have to say, actually, this is way more interesting,

with the greatest of respect, than the original drumbeat,

Traditional music, you have a piece which you lock down but you are not

You are locking down a kind of process.

It's almost like you're taking this, or part of it, and you're locking

that down, this is how I might want the piece to be but I don't mind

I am trying to make a version of me in the software,

I'm always interested in what is at the edge of my taste

envelope, if you like, and randomness is a way

Have you ever thought about whether you can copyright

If you sell the app to somebody, do they own the music that comes

Because they have constructed it, in a way.

All the bits are mine but the final construction is that theirs so.

I do not think it is very easy to make a case for saying

it is my music, because it sort of is in a modern sense

We spent about an hour with Brian Eno and in the next few

days, you can see more inside Brian Eno's brain online.

This week, Samsung launched its latest mobile phones.

Just a few minutes to go until the launch starts

and there is an incredible level of secrecy here but I guess

there is a lot at stake for Samsung after the Note 7 debacle,

we're just waiting to see what the S8 has in store for us.

Soon the hype turned to cold hard facts, Out of this Samsung Unboxed

So here we have it - the S8 and the S8 plus.

Not even the Plus seems to be that large -

that's because the screens on both of them curve over the edges.

There's been a lot of hype about this.

Personally, I'm not really sure it feels like that big a deal,

but it does mean you get a screen which is bigger

A few of the features that we've been told about today -

Iris and facial recognition as well, meaning you should not need

a password but should still be able to achieve

There's also what they call an invisible "home" button.

As you press it, you can feel some sensation.

One thing we have heard a lot of talk about is the launch of Bixby.

When fully functioning, the system aims to make interacting

Interacting with 10 Samsung apps, controlling other Samsung devices -

yes, there is a theme here - and using artificial intelligence

to learn your habits and suggest what you might be looking for next.

Naturally, I want to test this new personal assistant,

but there is one substantial problem - Bixby is currently only

It is not until May that it is going to be released in American English,

and then after that some other languages are going to follow.

It may well be great, but I cannot tell you about it.

In the meantime, the image recognition function is in action.

You photograph an item and it aims to find it for you online...

The phone will be released this month from $650.

The company believe they will see explosive sales, but let's hope

Now, to cyborgs and when Hollywood imagines them they look way too

futuristic to be anywhere close to becoming a reality.

They did not save your life, they stole it.

Dan Simons has a very special appointment with Professor Someya

I have come to see a professor who is apparently going to turn me

into some sort of cyborg, so it's very unusual.

It's one of the first times a camera crew has been allowed

in to see the process happen, and it will all take place

This research team have come up with the world's thinnest organic

circuits, lighter than a feather, they could be worn like

Either monitoring the body or as an e-skin display.

We can introduce the electronic functions directly

on the surface of the skin without causing any discomfort.

This is human and machine coming together?

The display they are putting on to me has taken three days

to manufacture, so the research team are being very careful.

It is just two to three microns in thickness.

The magic is controlled by polymer semiconductors and transparent

electrodes with organic semiconductors and diodes firing

They can scrunch them and, on rubber, even stretch of them.

The circuits still work, and that is something I have come

Professor Someya has used this e-skin to measure heart rate

Is it robust enough to go running with, for example?

It doesn't cause any mechanical failure.

Would you expect us to change this every two or three days?

So if we can manufacture everything very cheap,

so after you go to the shower and then delaminate your skin,

This is just a single digit display today,

So, the second step will be much multiple digits and then

going to the high-definition display.

Yes, 1,000 pixels, that's technologically possible.

So on our hand, so we could, what, talk to people?

This could be a picture of my mum, for example?

I could say, "Hi, Mum", and my Mum would appear on my hand?

Yes, that would be possible in the future, maybe four

But lifetime will be the biggest issues.

This is the start of the rise of the cyborgs.

That fit for the short version of Click this week. The full version is

available online. There is much more from Brian Eno coming soon as well,

we will tweet you when it is ready -- that's it for the short version.