Brian Eno: Visual Music

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The time is ripe for an accessible PB reissue of Brian Eno: Visual Music. This backlist classic is THE comprehensive volume on powerhouse innovator Brian Eno's visual art. Though best known as a musician - he released an acclaimed new album in 2017 - Brian Eno's star as a visual artist also continues to rise, with a recent sold-out gallery show. With over 300 images; personal notebook pages; authoritative essays; an interview with the artist; an essay by Brian Eno himself about, among other things, David Bowie; and an original-for-the-book piece of free downloadable music - all now in a stylish and affordable package - this book is a must-have for both art and music fans.

Christopher Scoates is the director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. His interests encompass contemporary art and technology, design, and experimental sound. He is the author of Brian Eno: Visual Music (2013) and Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was: The Lighting and Stage Design of Andi Watson (2011). He is the cofounder of 5D: The Immersive Design Conference, a national conference about progressive film design, narrative media, and new technology. Brian Eno was born in Suffolk, England, in 1948. After graduating from the Winchester School of Art, Eno began experimenting with the medium of television and manipulating light. He is internationally known for his work as a musical collaborator with international performers including Roxy Music, U2, Coldplay, David Bowie, and Talking Heads, among many others. His own series of ambient records have influenced a whole generation of artists, and he continues to be a major reference point for musicians, artists, and thinkers from all walks of life.

"For more than 40 years Brian Eno 'has explored the complex relationship between light and sound, ' Christopher Scoates writes in Brian Eno: Visual Music, a beautifully designed analysis of how Eno became 'completely enveloped in new and unorthodox ways of thinking about the world, visual ideas and music.' This is a catalog of awesome accomplishments, in which we see how Eno's 'parallel practices have often informed each other.'" - New York Times Book Review "A magnificent monograph spanning more than four decades of Eno's music projects and museum and gallery installations, contextualized amidst a wealth of exhibition notes, sketchbook pages, and other never-before-revealed archival materials.. beautiful and compelling." - Brain Pickings