William Blaze on “Bottom Up”
William Blaze in a post on Brian Eno’s ‘generative music’ and the concept of ‘bottom up’ versus ‘top down’:
The rhetoric of bottom up has little to do with the reality of action. What gets pitched as bottom up can often have its own top down, and maybe its necessary for it to function. What is really interesting is not the “bottom up”, but rather the relationships and interactions between the “bottom up”, the situations where control is let go, and the “top down”, those situations were control is retained and directed. This is the process of generations, of creation, of interaction and progression. Not top down, not bottom up, but both and neither together, working.