If you're traveling to Sydney between May and June--or you already live there--you're in for a glittering treat. On May 28th, musician Brian Eno, will unveil his "77 Million Paintings," a light show projected onto the iconic Sydney Opera House. The piece began with hundreds collages, which Eno crafted by hand; those will then be infinitely remixed with software, and projected onto the building. The light show goes along with an entire slate of events and music, which Eno himself curated, and will coincide with Vivid Sydney, a series light installations created by three other groups, that will run through June 14. Here's Eno talking about the project:
Eno has done versions of 77 Million Paintings before, in Venice, London, and San Francisco.
But Sydney will be the project's biggest venue by far, and the first time it's part of an expended-run, full-on, Eno-curated cultural extravaganza. You can find the performance schedule here. Another recent foray into "generative art" by the father of ambient music: The brilliant Bloom app for iPhone, which lets you peck out a scored light painting yourself.
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July 27, 2009 at 12:48pm by aliya david
Brian Eno, avant-garde music producer and inventor of ambient music, has illuminated the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Projections of continuously changing colors and patterns onto Jørn Utzon’s masterpieces have transformed the iconic modernist facade into a meditation on light, sound and the environment.
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July 30, 2009 at 8:29am by aliya david
This is the time for imagining and the way we learn to imagine, one of the ways we learn to imagine, is through the experience of art."
The human ability to imagine made people "capable of surviving," he added.
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August 6, 2009 at 10:08am by aliya david
The festival of "music, lights and ideas" will be held in Sydney in May and June.
There'll be four major events, including a music festival at the Opera House curated by the musician Brian Eno known for his work with Roxy Music, David Bowie and U2.
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August 27, 2009 at 3:26pm by homme rock
You can have good ambient music and bad ambient music, and Eno certainly epitomizes the former. I have a feeling that Classical composers were intending to evoke certain emotional/intellectual reactions in people, which is exactly what Eno does. Hey, isn't that art?
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August 30, 2009 at 3:07pm by dental elegance
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), commonly known as simply Brian Eno (pronounced /ˈiːnoʊ/), is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.
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