This book is bound in several chapters or essays, each divided by photographs of Eno's sketches, photo stills from his video and gallery installations and various other photographs. Scoates is a director of the CLUBS' University Art Museum, curator and writer, with an extensive background in arts and whose interests encompass works that blend technology, design, interactivity and experimental sound. Visual Music is a substantial attempt to give a view on the entire body of work in the world of visual art that has spanned more than 40 years. Eno's artistic education, background and interests beyond music were never neglected by his biographers or journalists throughout the years, but those activities outside of music were overshadowed by the successes of his musical endeavors during different times either by producing mega popular stars or by the success of his own music. But those books gave more emphasis, normally, on his life and work within the domain of music.
And as a result this has inspired and fed his work as he combined all of these elements into different processes that would spark new meanings and stories.Įno's life and works so far have been dissected and analyzed in several books, such as the Eric Tamm's Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound, a musicological study of his output, or David Sheppard's comprehensive On Some Faraway Beach. More important is that Eno has found a way to connect and combine all these seemingly disparate and somewhat detached areas as ingredients in a collage. A towering figure and an eccentric artist, he has shown interest in various areas: design, painting, video installations, production, collaboration, composing, fragrances, and in each sphere he has found success. Over the last 40 years he has been largely responsible for rendering conventional music categories obsolete and inventing or inspiring many others along the way.Ī maverick producer, theoretician and erudite he showed that ideas can have far reaching consequences, and his interviews, which are somewhat public lectures or thinking in public, indicate someone that enjoys theorizing about the creative process, especially when he can offer a new perspective on established ideas and working practices. Innovative, exuberant and controversial, Eno has, during any point of his illustrious career, found both popular appeal and intellectual appreciation for his ideas, emotional intensity and musical sophistication. Eno has been one of the pivotal figures of the 20th century music as he introduced a popular voice to a century of musical change, and he has continued to do so in the next one he has helped to envision.
To say that polymath Brian Eno is one of the most influential figures of our time would be a severe understatement.
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