Brian Eno will probably be honored by the Venice Biennale Music part this 12 months. The composer will obtain the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for his “analysis into the standard, magnificence and diffusion of digital sound and for his conception of the acoustic house as a compositional instrument,” in response to a press launch. Eno will obtain the award at a ceremony on October 22 on the competition, the place he will even participate in a dialog with music critic Tom Service.
“Brian Eno’s compositions have been conceived when it comes to a generative course of that evolves in a doubtlessly infinite time dimension, foreshadowing a lot of at present’s compositional developments linked to digital sound,” composer Lucia Ronchetti wrote in an announcement included with the Biennale’s announcement. Eno will even be the topic of a video artwork set up on the competition, Nothing Can Ever Be the Similar, which is able to premiere the identical day Eno is awarded the Golden Lion.
Eno launched his newest album, ForeverAndEverNoMore, in 2022. Try Pitchfork’s 2017 function “A Dialog With Brian Eno About Ambient Music.”
