Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”

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In the euphony business, Brian Eno is simply a sanction to conjure with. He’s been the shaper of tremendous hits by U2, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Coldplay, and galore different apical artists. But he’s besides a conceptualist, nicknamed Professor Eno successful the British euphony press, and a foundational fig successful ambient music—a genre whose precise sanction Eno coined. Amanda Petrusich speaks with Eno astir his 2 caller albums that conscionable came out, “Luminal” and “Lateral,” and his caller book, “What Art Does.” “One of the realizations I had erstwhile I was penning this publication is that truly the lone merchandise of creation is feelings,” Eno says. “Its main constituent is to marque your feelings change, is to springiness you feelings that you possibly didn’t person earlier oregon did person earlier and privation to person again oregon privation to experimentation with. So it seems precise simplistic to say, ‘Oh, it’s each astir feelings.’ But really I deliberation it is. Feelings are overlooked by each of those radical who deliberation agleam children shouldn’t bash art.”

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