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NEWS UPDATE: 2ND FEBRUARY 2025

Thanks to Martina, Rory, Dario, Buck, Michael, Richard, Samantha, and EnoWeb's own newsbot Tom Boon in no particular order for these news items.

Bloomin' marvellous: 17 long years after the release of the iOS app Bloom, Brian has reimagined it as a studio work. The Bloom app saw Brian apply his airy-fairy blue-sky-thinking conceptualisation spit-balling generative ideas, with loyal lieutenant Peter Chilvers doing all the grunt work. Now in Bloom: Living World, Brian has enhanced an hour-long recording of Bloom with the addition of treatments and subtle sonic touches. Given the Internet's dwindling attention span, this is accompanied a video edit running at 31:49 and Bloom: Small World (which shrinkifies the piece into a 5:34 runtime). Bloom: Living World premiered as an Amazon Original in October 2024. Eno students will note that the timeline of Bloom: Living World is a reverse parallel of Reflection which began as a studio album and subsequently got parlayed into an app.

WHAT IS THIS ART OF WHICH YOU SPEAK?

Brian has been interviewed about Gary Hustwit's Eno film and What Art Does, the new book he wrote with Bette A. which has just been published in the UK. Gary has also been interviewed about the film.

FEBRUARY OBSCURITIES

  • GQ has some quotes from Brian about his new Apple Music Chill station Amber
  • A brief glimpse of Brian in a 1995 War Child promo
  • 2004 Screen Savers interview with Brian
  • 1980 interview and lecture (possibly longer duration than the version EnoWeb has previously linked to)
  • Jerome Lefdup's 1992 "Ali Click" video
  • An issue of Cash Box at World Radio History has a photo of Brian and Anthea Norman-Taylor meeting executives from Warner Bros. Records back in 1988 (page 14)
  • Evan Toth spoke to Roger Eno for The Sharp Notes Interview
  • Jamie Lidell also interviewed Roger
  • Richard Norris (formerly of The Grid) briefly recalls remote work with Brian for Ban Ban Ton Ton
  • Jon Hopkins briefly mentions Brian in an interview for Ableton
  • Fred again.. played Secret Life for a select audience at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Soft Automaton has uploaded four takes of Brian's Koan album Generative Music I here, here, here, and here
  • An obituary of Malcolm Le Grice
  • Prog interviewed Phil Manzanera
  • Vicky Chow, David Cossin and Mark Stewart performed Music For Airports

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