As such, here is a link to a 7-minute sliver of Eno’s multimedia masterpiece on YouTube. Juhlaviikoille Eno tuo installaatioteoksensa 77 Million Paintings (2006), josta on ehtinyt jo syntyä klassikko: teos muuttuu alati 18 päivän aikana, kun se on esillä. Words fail to adequately convey what it was like. This is one of those things that needs to be experienced. After that, I was primed and ready to indulge myself into the rest of the festival. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. I spent a fair amount of time basking in the sights and sounds that can only be described as consciousness-altering. Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings at California State University Long Beach Art Museum- September 12 through December 13, 2009. I decided to check out the art installation, to get myself in the proper mental-state-of-being for three days of mind-expanding music. Theres an audio feature, but I tend to disable it and listen to whatever songs Im in the mood for at the time, lately Enos entire catalog on shuffle. It also makes for a very nice screen saver, particularly on a widescreen LCD monitor.
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“The title is derived from the possible number of combinations of video and music which can be generated by the software, effectively ensuring that the same image/soundscape is never played twice.” (Source: Wikipedia)Īnyway, MoogFest was a weekend-long electronic music festival, and this year I was doing the full festival (more on that soon). 77 Million Paintings is visual Zen, an ever-changing slow motion collage of vibrant abstract images produced by Brian Eno.
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The concept of the art installation is a combination of visual images and ambient music generated through software to create a continually morphing experience. He has been described as one of popular music’s most influential and innovative figures.” (Source: Wikipedia) A self-described “non-musician”, Eno has helped introduce unique conceptual approaches and recording techniques to contemporary music. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Eno, he “is an English musician, record producer, visual artist, and theorist best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and contributions to rock, pop and electronica. This ticket was for admission to an art installation by Brian Eno which was part of MoogFest in Asheville, NC.