David Byrne has announced the dates for his tour to promote his new album with Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today: Date City Venue Sep 16 2008 Bethlehem, PA Zoellner Arts Center – Baker Hall Sep 17 2008 Baltimore, MD Lyric Sep 18 2008 Newport News, VA Ferguson Center for the Arts Sep… Read More David Byrne Announces Tour Dates
David Byrne & Brian Eno have released a free track, Strange Overtones, from their upcoming release, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today: Today, a free track is available from the upcoming record that I did with Brian Eno. I’m hoping that folks will be pleasantly surprised at the direction we’ve taken and the final result.… Read More Free Music From David Byrne & Brian Eno
David Byrne has announced a few of the dates for his upcoming tour, which will be promoting his new album with Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Newport News, VA Ferguson Center for the Arts (September 18) Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre (September 20) Austin, TX Zilker Park -Austin City Limits Festival (September… Read More Brian Eno & David Byrne Tour Dates
David Byrne has announced a new album with Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, and a concert tour to promote it. Video below, after the jump! This is exciting news. Eno and Byrne’s last collaboration, My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, was 20 years ahead of its time and any new collaboration… Read More New Album From David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
This simple but creeptacular video is a promo for Grace Jones’s album Hurricane, to be released in October 2008. Co-produced by Jones with Ivor Guest, the eight-track set will also feature contributions by long-time collaborators Sly and Robbie, Brian Eno, Wally Badarou, Tricky, Uzziah ‘Sticky’ Thompson, Mikey ‘Mao’ Chung, Barry Reynolds, John Justin, Martin Slattery,… Read More New Grace Jones Album To Feature Brian Eno, Tricky
15 years ago, Kevin Kelly (Editor of Wired magazine) and Brian Eno (ambient music guru and super-producer) published a list of “unthinkable futures” – probabilities we tend to dismiss without thinking – in the Summer, 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review. Their intent was less to correctly predict the future (thus the silliness) and more… Read More The Unthinkable Futures of Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno
Last year, we brought you some great video of game creator Will Wright and Brian Eno on generative systems. Here’s the whole enchilada – their Long Now discussion of Spore and generative music and gaming. They touch on all sorts of topics, but it includes great discussions of generative processes and ambient music, fractals, compression… Read More Will Wright & Brian Eno On Generative Music & Gaming
I’ve written previously about the idea of virtual worlds made up of ambient sound-objects. The world of ambient music could use kick in the seat of the pants, and making it less passive might just do it. Brian Eno’s template for ambient music – infinite soundscapes structured around asynchronous loops – has been explored for… Read More Could Interactive 3D Holograms Be The Future Of Music?
I’m a massive Budd & Eno fan. The Pearl & Ambient 2: The Plateax of MIrrors are two of the most gorgeous and important works of ambient music. So I was excited to see music blogger Matthew G Davidson (Stretta) offer his take on the classic work of Budd & Eno. Here’s a little background… Read More Matthew G Davidson: A Monome Glitchtronica Take On Harold Budd
It’s science: chill out music music is good for you According to research presented at the American Society of Hypertension’s Twenty Third Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2008), listening to just 30 minutes of rhythmically homogeneous music every day can significantly reduce high blood pressure. By rhythmically homogeneous, they mean music with little or… Read More It’s Science: Ambient, Chill Out Music Is Good For You
