He’s the avatar of ambient and one of the original glitterati of glam, but Brian Eno started as a visual artist before he became captivated by sound and synthesis. Nearly 30 years ago, he began a return to the visual arts, and has synthesized a career that now runs in intersecting parallels with his music. From his first video, Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan, Eno’s work has evolved into light sculptures that reflect his music, slowly morphing illuminated shapes shifting in seemingly infinite patterns. On 77 Million Paintings, Eno adapts his concepts to a computer program that constantly shifts his patterns in layers. Some of them are abstract, some luminescent. There are almost Keith Haring-like patterns countered by a Jackson Pollock splatter-and-drip approach, but all are constantly mutating and combining. Like painting in motion, every subtle move and overlay creates a new picture–hence the title. In fact, every time the program is launched, the images are different, and if you run it forever, it will effectively never repeat. Eno has married his images to an equally morphing soundscape, a nonlinear, constantly shifting sound field of gong and vibe-like tones, drone pads, and odd, whooshing sounds and ambiences. Like his ambient music, it’s meant to work in the background, but can also draw you into to its glacially evolving world. The program is packaged in a set with a hardbound book in which Eno details the evolution of his light art and a DVD that includes an interview with Eno and a video rendition of the program. Eno has often followed the Satie idea of furniture music–now he extends that concept to your TV and computer. –John Diliberto
Although he is perhaps more famous for his musical output, Brian Eno has had a long career as a visual artist with his work exhibited in scores of galleries across the globe for more than 25 years. The Limited Edition 77 Million Paintings features an exclusive interview DVD in which Brian Eno discusses his creation of the 77 Million Paintings software, the next evolutionary stage of his exploration into light as an artist’s medium and the aesthetic possibilities of “generative software.” The bonus software disc creates a constantly evolving, slowly changing “light painting” on the screen of your computer or TV with a virtually infinite number of variations accompanied by the music of Brian Eno.
Brian Eno 77 Million Paintings Interview on YouTube
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[…] Apparently Brian Eno is a visual artist as well as a musical one: On 77 Million Paintings, Eno adapts his concepts to a computer program that constantly shifts his patterns in layers. Some of them are abstract, some luminescent. There are almost Keith Haring-like patterns countered by a Jackson Pollock splatter-and-drip approach, but all are constantly mutating and combining. […]
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[…] » 77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno On 77 Million Paintings, Eno adapts his concepts to a computer program that constantly shifts his patterns in layers. Some of them are abstract, some luminescent. There are almost Keith Haring-like patterns countered by a Jackson Pollock splatter-and-drip approach, but all are constantly mutating and combining. […]
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Still no seeders at all?
Comment by Hey Guys — put June 25, 2007 @ 2:00 am
Be patient, they come and go.
Comment by Pale Rider — put June 25, 2007 @ 2:16 am
i haven’t seen a seed in over two weeks. i’m still at 0.0%!!!! i don’t know why this post got bumped up if there still aren’t any seeds. for the sake of humanity, please seed! ^____^
Comment by cubivore — put June 25, 2007 @ 10:19 pm
Try the new links above
Comment by Pale Rider — put June 26, 2007 @ 12:01 am
sweet! these work. thanks!
Comment by cubivore — put June 26, 2007 @ 12:15 am
Is the software disc PC-only or something? When I try to mount the ISO-2 disk image on my Mac, I get “unable to mount - no mountable file system.”
Comment by resolver — put June 27, 2007 @ 3:09 am
I saw 77 Million Paintings last year in Tokyo; highly recommended, especially if you can see it in person somewhere!
Comment by tokyo — put June 27, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
I am disappointed. I downloaded the two disks last night, burned them with Nero this morning and neither one worked for me.
Comment by Stiksister — put July 5, 2007 @ 12:05 am
Hola,
same as above, imgburn doesn’t help with the second part at all, neither does nero.
many thanks to the uploader….but a bit of advice would be appreciated…..rename the the file? run with? etc….
Comment by walker — put July 6, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
Try popping it open with something like ISObuster and burning the assets straight across.
Comment by Pale Rider — put July 7, 2007 @ 4:53 am
thanks again.
all isobuster gets me is a tao file, which does not seem to be worth much….
Comment by walker — put July 7, 2007 @ 9:39 am
thought:
i have jumped in and tried to run “77million2″ first without part one, assumeing part one is just the doco……do i actually need part one first?
:0
Comment by walker — put July 7, 2007 @ 11:12 am
I have the same problem ! Maby your iso file is created by a MAC computer. So pc
cannot read it!
Comment by weiwei_ako — put July 9, 2007 @ 5:43 am
I got a different copy of 77million off Demonoid. also iso but this one works.
thanks for uploading anyway.
Comment by walker — put July 10, 2007 @ 9:57 am
thank you for posting I search for this for quite a while. I’m downloading it, please keep seeding. BTW is this PC or Mac, I’m using PC.
Comment by kenneth — put December 15, 2007 @ 11:57 am