his music is very atmospheric and at the wheel and he's regarded as the godfather of ambient music and his new work, reflection, it is rather unpredictable. it is a generative music app which follows rules defined and refined by brian eno but which plays differently every time. 14% of these notes, random, will be pitched down by three semitones. the second is al% go an octave down, 12 semitones. can i just say... scientist. i would go further, quantum scientist. probabilities. brian eno has spent weeks, months, tweaking these rules and probabilities which when combined cause these sounds to bounce, transform or not play at all. these are different types of scripters. actually, these rules can be applied

to any type of music. something more pacey, their effects become immediately obvious. we will make that a tedious loop. a lot of music is based just on things like that and it goes on for ever. now i will put in some scripters. first a way of reducing the number of beats. it is only playing 80%. already it is a pretty crappy drummer. actually, this is way more interesting than the original drumbeat. we'll introduce some rolls. traditional music, you have a piece which locks down

but you are not locking it down. you are taking these and locking that down, the process. i don't mind so much if the piece changes every time. it is a good way of explaining it. i am trying to make a version of me in the software, my taste, if you like. i'm interested in the edge of my taste envelope, and randomness is a way to find out. have you thought of whether you can copyright the music that comes out? that is a good point. if you sell the app, do they own the music? because they have constructed it. all the bits are mine but the final construction is theirs.

and what did you conclude? it is not easy to make a case for saying it is my music because it sort of is in a modern sense of what composing means. we spent about an hour with eno, and in the next few days you can see more inside brian's brain on online. lookout for the link on twitter from click. this week, samsung launched its latest mobile phone. just a few minutes to go until the launch start, and there is an incredible level of secrecy here, but there is a lot at stake for samsung. after the note 7 debacle, we're waiting to see why we're waiting to see what the 58 has in store. well, two phones were born. 58 and 58 plus. not even the plus is that large, because of the screens on both

of them curve over the edges. a lot of hype about these. it does not feel like a big deal personally, but it means you get a screen which is bigger on a smaller size. so, a few of the features we have been told about today. a fingerprint scanner. iris and facial recognition, meaning you should not need a password but still achieve all the security you want. an invisible home button. as you press it, you can feel some sensation. one thing we have had a lot of talk about is the launch of this. the launch of bixby. when fully functioning, the system aims to make interacting easier. interacting with apps, controlling other devices and using artificial intelligence to land your habits and suggests

to learn your habits and suggests what you might be looking for next. naturally, i want to test this new personal assistant, but there is a substantial problem. bixby is currently only available in korean. it will be released in american english in may. after that, other languages will follow. it may well be great, but i can't tell you about it. in the meantime, the image recognition function is in action. you photograph a night, and it aims to find it for you online, with varying success. so, the hairbrush in shot. it thinks my hairbrush is a fork. the phone will be released this month from $650. the company believe they will see explosive sales, but let's hope not exploding phones! now to cyborgs, and when hollywood

imagines them they look way too futuristic to be anywhere close to becoming reality. they did not save your life, they stole it. but are they? dan simmons has a special appointment with a professor at the university of tokyo injapan. i have come to see a professor who is apparently going to turn me into some sort of cyborg. it is one of the first times a camera crew has been allowed in to see the process happen and it will take place through this door here.

this research team have come up with the world's thinnest organic circuits, lighter than a feather, they could be worn like a second skin. either monitoring the body or as an e—skin display. we can introduce the electronic functions on the surface of the skin without causing any discomfort from wearing. 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. its thickness is just two to three microns. the magic is controlled by polymer semiconductors and transparent electrodes with organic semiconductors and diodes firing up the display. and they are surprisingly resilient.

they can scrunch them and on rubber even stretch them. it still works and that is something i have come to put to the test. the professor has used his e—skin to measure heart rate and oxygen levels in the blood. could we use these out and about, is it robust enough to go running with it? please move your hand. something like that. i see. it doesn't cause any mechanicalfailure. it is flexible. would you expect us to change this every two or three days? yes, that's another possibility. if we can manufacture everything very cheap, so after you go to the shower and then delaminate your skin and put on the fresh one. i expected that to break by now.

and it's still very much alive. this is just a single digit display today, but what could this be in the future? the second step will be much more digits and then going to the high—definition display. so we could have maybe 1,000 pixels? yes, that's technologically possible. on our hand, so we could, what, talk to people on our hand? yes. this could be a picture of my mum, for example? she would appear on my hand? yes, that would be possible in the future, maybe four to five years. but lifetime will be the biggest issues. this is the start of the rise of the cyborgs. we have plenty more of this kind

of stuff every week and there's more coming from brian eno soon. thanks for watching and see you soon. good evening. it has not been too

bad weekend for most of us. the first weekend of april has been mostly sunshine and not much in the wa ke mostly sunshine and not much in the wake of april showers. in fact, a beautiful afternoon in kent. in general in the south east today we saw highs of 17 degrees. there was a little bit of nuisance cloud in the said east. those clear skies tonight will allow temperatures to fall away as they do so at this time of the year. the breeze is picking up in the north—west as we go through the night. for most of us patchy mist and fog falling and temperatures falling away. perhaps in rural spots we could see temperatures close to freezing, so light frosts in a few spots. it will be a chilly, but a sunny start for most of us. a decent day. the exception is these weather

fronts starting to their hand in the west. for the isles of scilly and for cornwall we may see some rain in the afternoon, brushing the fringes of western wales. but central and eastern areas will see some warmth away from the coast and we could see some temperatures in the mid—to high teens. the cloud sits across the irish sea towards the isle of man and into northern ireland and parts of scotland. eastern scotland should keep some brightness through most of the day. but only 10—13 . a blanket of crowd and showery outbreaks of rain gradually drift eastwards and on tuesday morning it will not be quite as cold, but it will be cloudy with outbreaks of rain into the south—east corner. not amounting to very much, not enough to whet the gardens. showery rain clearing away from the south east and behind it is

brightening up, but just from the south east and behind it is brightening up, butjust a bit fresher. as we move into wednesday high pressure builds from the west and the winds change direction, coming more from a north—westerly. there will be more settled weather, but temperatures will be a bit down on where they have been. this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm: a state of emergency has been declared in colombia after more than 250 people are killed in mudslides — many more are missing. six arrests are made by police investigating an alleged hate crime attack on a 17—year—old kurdish—iranian asylu m seeker in south london. this was a cowardly and despicable attack. this is a young man who's come to this country to seek sanctuary and it appears that he's been set upon. the writer, broadcaster and civil liberties campaigner darcus howe has died at the age of 7a.