Facts on Brian Eno
- Art student in the 60's
- Looked into recording and manipulating sound
- Eno never intended to be a rockstar but ended up playing as a keyboard player on stage.
- John Peel gave him his first play in 1972
- Eno became one of the most sort after producers in the industry
- He has worked with David, Bowie, Talking Heads and U2
- 77 million paintings produced so he would never see the same painting twice
What he was speaking about
- Education secretary thought it was not a good idea for students to go into the art subjects as it does not have enough good job prospects.
- Is art an luxury?
- Is there a way that you can make the arts flourish?
- We need to rethink the way we talk about culture and what it does for us
- Culture- The creative arts- 'Art is everything that you don't have to do'
- There are certain things you have to do to stay alive, Art is not
- We do more than just communicate
- Why do we like music?
- Imagination is important and start as a child.
- We do not stop playing as an adult we play through art.
- All art is the construction of little worlds
- When you choose your hairstyle you are communicating what type of world you live in.
- Morse Peckham, 'Mans Rage for kayos, biology, behaviour and the arts’ ‘Art is the exposure to the tensions and problems of a false world, in order that man may endure the tensions and problems of the real world’
- Art is giving us the chance to have feelings about things that are not serious
- Art offers you simulated worlds
- American historian William Mcneil- Keeping together in time
- We live in a culture that changes incredibly quickly, we have to some how come into terms with all of that, we need ways of keeping in sink
- Culture is a set of rituals that we are all engaged with
- The open source movement, people are starting to share ideas
- All of these challenges make us want to remould ourselves.
- Dancing in the street - Barbara Ehrenreich
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