Brian Eno is the recipient of the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in its music part this yr.
The influential experimental musician, composer, producer and visible artist – previously of Roxy Music – is being honoured for his “analysis into the standard, magnificence and diffusion of digital sound and for his conception of the acoustic area as a compositional instrument,” in keeping with a press launch seen by Pitchfork.
Eno will obtain the award at a ceremony on October 22 on the arts competition held within the Italian metropolis the place he may also participate in a dialog with music critic Tom Service.
“Brian Eno’s compositions have been conceived by way of a generative course of that evolves in a doubtlessly infinite time dimension, foreshadowing a lot of as we speak’s compositional developments linked to digital sound,” composer Lucia Ronchetti wrote in a press release included with the Biennale’s announcement.
Moreover, Eno would be the topic of a video artwork set up on the competition known as Nothing Can Ever Be The Identical. It’s set to premiere the identical day that Eno is awarded the Golden Lion.
In the meantime, a uncommon reside live performance that includes brothers Eno and his brother Roger premiered in cinemas throughout the UK earlier this month.
Stay At The Acropolis was filmed at Athens’ Odeon of Herodes Atticus amphitheatre in August 2021 as a part of the annual Epidaurus Competition.
The live performance included a backdrop of Brian’s photos projected onto the partitions of the amphitheatre, as Brian and Roger carried out music from their 2020 album ‘Mixing Colors’.
They have been joined by Roger’s daughter and Brian’s niece, Cecily Eno, on vocals, ukulele and mandolin. Leo Abrahams performed guitars and Peter Chilvers performed keyboards.
NME reviewed Eno’s newest solo album ‘FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE’ final yr. Learn the three-star overview right here.
