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77 Million Paintings By Brian Eno [DVD] [2006]

77 Million Paintings By Brian Eno [DVD] [2006]
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Inventive PC/Mac software on DVD that transforms your screen into a continuously morphing painting, with ambient music

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #55255 in DVD
  • Released on: 2006-09-25
  • Rating: Exempt
  • Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Formats: Colour, DVD-Video, Limited Edition, PAL
  • Original language: English
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Running time: 42 minutes

Editorial Reviews

Synopsis
77 MILLION PAINTINGS continues Brian Eno's exploration into the medium of light. Eno entitled his collection of audio-visual installations to depict the possible number of images that can be created from a huge number of combinations, a term he calls 'generative'.

Customer Reviews

essential viewing for ambient/generative art afficiandos5
this piece of work is well worth getting hold off - eno's work is always a pleasure to behold and this is no exception. in terms of his approach with the piece - a translation of multi-screen installation on a single screen medium - he is clearly hitting the right buttons as quality flatscreens are now becoming ubiquitous.

however, if you put the work against current trends in generative work it can seem just little bit flat or just 20 years out - whether that's because the audio visual scapes that eno has been creating for the past 20 years have been simply been ahead of their time - or that this is someone who is plugging the same AV spectrum with little progress - you will need to make your own mind up!

personally i like it - i appreciate the analog approach of the visual work rather than adopting the latest visual fads (ie 3D - flash vector)and the warmth of those 80's ambient rumblings envelop the room so well!

Beguiling and beautiful5
This is a wonderful and beautiful experience, that can be returned to again and again. And each time it is different. Just load up the software and then turn on and watch it. You cannot control it except on/off and the speed in which the images change (slow or very very slow), but the effect is beguiling, just like all of Eno's best work, such as his '14 Video Paintings', 'Music for Airports' and 'The Drop'. Indeed it is the sheer randomness that creates this sense of calm, But there are no sudden disjunctures, but the combination of images surprises. Eno has the ability to challenge us whilst he calms us, to see things differently even as we are never jarred, never shocked.

In the few days since I bought this I have already spent hours just looking at, sometimes with Eno's audio track and other times with other music - try it with Scelsi or Mompou.