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A new
year (ish) and a new Edge.org question. Eschewing such faves as "Why do
birds suddenly appear Every time you are near?", "What are the Thirty-Nine
Steps?", "Why ask why? For by the by and by, All mysteries are just
more Needles in the camel's eye", "Do You You Know the Way To San
José?" and "Do you hear voices? You do,
so you are possessed", 2012's brain-teaser is "What
is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" Apparently the
answer is not "I was drunk, I was lonely, and kumquats were on
a 3-for-2 offer at the supermarket". Sheesh.
While
you're over the Edge, you can read or watch Brian in conversation with Jennifer
Jacquet last November. For shame!
Underworld
have rereleased some more-or-less rare tracks, including "Beebop Hurry"
with Brian on A Collection.
Some reports
from the Apollo and Here Come The Warm Jets tribute concerts
in Hip'n'Happenin' New York (thanks to Dario).
Harold
Budd will be performing It's Only A Daydream with Keith Lowe at the
17th Other Minds Festival. It takes place on Friday 2nd March at Kanbar Hall
which is at or part of San Francisco Jewish Community Center which is located
at 3200 California Street, an address in San Francisco in the United States
of Amerrrricky.
Brian
is a pioneer, claims the Financial Times. He really doesn't look like
that any more, claims EnoWeb.
Just a
reminder that Brian does not have a Twitter account or appear
on Facebook. Anybody claiming otherwise is an impostor and wasting your time.
In
one of the less likely invitations to cross EnoWeb's desk, long ago the site's
Head (and let's be honest, only) Honcho Tom Boon was urged to contribute
to popular music group Cyber Zen Sound Engine's fifth album. A mere 10 years
later, Cooperation is finally released on 17th January
(US time... we'd give it another day if you're elsewhere). The album is available
as a CD or MP3 download from CD Baby, with iTunes & Amazon downloads available
shortly. If you've ever wondered what happens when you put together a mixture
of desolate ambience, competent guitar, a dash of Koan and some sleet, maybe
this will be your answer. It can't hurt to check out the audio previews at CD
Baby anyway.
Our previous update was on 1st January when we wrote:
16th
January sees the release of Far Off Country by Letka, which includes
a guest appearance from Brian. Letka is made up of Peter Chilvers (musician,
coder, digital archaeologist etc etc) and Sandra O'Neill (breathy vocalist on
Air) (Thanks to Peter Chilvers and Dario).
On January
6th -- the first night of the New York Guitar Festival -- the "Apollo Project"
performs a "live re-imagining" to mark the 30th anniversary of Apollo:
Atmospheres and Soundtracks (Thanks to Richard Nensel and Dario).
Two
days later in the same city, there will be a live performance to mark the 40th
anniversary of the release of Here Come The Warm Jets, compered by
John Schaefer of WNYC.
A teaser
for Rosa Roedelius' documentary on Chance which includes Brian as one
of the interviewees. And look! Lene Lovich!
Dave
Gresalfi writes: You
may be very interested to know about this recently posted essay in the well-respected
UK film site Scope about the films that Eno and Byrne had Bruce Conner make
for 'America is Waiting' and 'Mea Culpa'. The author is David Laderman, who
has written books on punk films and road movies and presented this essay earlier
in the year at a Los Angles film conference. I believe it's the most in-depth
thing ever written about these films and I'm guessing your readers will find
it interesting. Thanks and keep up the great work - I've been visiting your
site regularly for many years.
Erik
Honoré e-mails: Legendary
artist and producer Brian Eno is confirmed as Artistic Director of 2012's Punkt
Festival. Eno will curate all 18 concerts and live remixes during the three
day festival (updated thanks to Rory Walsh, now running from 6th
to 8th September). Limited edition "earlybird" passes at
a reduced price are available now. Last time Eno curated a whole festival was
at the Sydney Opera House. Then, the New South Wales Government called the festival
"the biggest event of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere". Now, in 2012, Brian
Eno curates the Punkt Festival at the new Kilden Performing Arts Centre in Kristiansand,
where he will present some of his current favourite artists. The Punkt Festival,
started in 2005, is based on two main pillars: The combination of main stage
concerts and the immediate live remixes of these on a second stage, and the
extensive musician network of directors/musicians/producers Jan Bang and Erik
Honoré. This year's Artist in Residence was David Sylvian, and all concerts
were sold out.
Despite
EnoWeb's attempts to persuade you to the contrary, there were some interesting
links kicking around between 9th November and 31st December last year. Luckily
Dario keeps an eye on these things, even if we don't.
- Brian spoke to WNYC New Sounds' John Shaefer about his recent projects in December
- As the 2010-11 Rolex Mentorship came to an end, Rolex offered a video and a downloadable article by Paul Morley
- Brian and Ben Frost spoke to WNYC
- Ben Frost talked to The Village Voice about his year as a Rolex Mentee
- Brian talked to The Daily Telegraph
- Brian talked to Le Figaro -- or Google Translate version
- At fora.tv Brian Eno, Anish Kapoor and Peter Sellars can be viewed in a recording of their conversation at the New York Public Library from Sunday, November 13, 2011
- Brian and Laurie Anderson went to Occupy Wall Street: MissNTertainment interview, song, song
- KPFA's Brian Eno Day at OtherMinds.org -- of course, every day is Brian Eno day at EnoWeb, but in 1988 KPFA decided to devote a whole day (that's 11¼ hours in American Dollars) to talk to Brian, play some of his music, and repeat its 1980 interview; OtherMinds is now streaming this event. You can also find it at archive.org.
- The Stool Pigeon played a game of Consequences, to which Brian contributed a couple of sentences
- Brian wrote about the track sequence for Drums Between The Bells
- The BBC unarchived its edition of Desert Island Discs with Brian, recorded in 1991
What might
be ahead in 2012, Enologically speaking? Possible: A release
of some of the music recorded at the Pure Scenius concerts. Not
overly likely judging by previous years but you never know: The collaboration
with Herbie Hancock; Brian's book if he's still writing it.
