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,” based on a press launch. Eno will obtain the award at a ceremony on October 22 on the pageant, the place he may also 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 lots of at this time’s compositional traits linked to digital sound,” composer Lucia Ronchetti wrote in a press release included with the Biennale’s announcement. Eno may also be the topic of a video artwork set up on the pageant, 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. Take a look at Pitchfork’s 2017 function “A Dialog With Brian Eno About Ambient Music.”