Brian Eno's huge back catalogue of work as a solo musician, band member and producer goes back decades, including high-profile work with Roxy Music, Talking Heads, David Bowie, John Cale and many others. He is often credited with inventing ambient music, but this conversation between Juliet and Brian does not talk about the past. Instead, we focused on how Brian has adapted to new music, new technology, and neoliberalism, and what responsibilities artists have to acknowledge and use their cultural capital.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Works by Brian Eno
Discreet Music (1975)
Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
Spore (2008, video game soundtrack) - https://pitchfork.com/news/30187-brian-eno-makes-interactive-music-for-spore/
The Ship (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1riJSHhkY
Reflection (2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwo-tvmEKhk
Bloom (with Peter Chilvers) - http://www.generativemusic.com/bloom.html

Berlin Horse (dir. Malcolm Le Grice, 1970) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDj8Tc6259o
Gavin Bryars, 'The Sinking of the Titanic' (1975, LP) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oVMRADOq5s
David Byrne & Brian Eno, 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' (1981, LP)
Anna Calvi
Client Earth - https://www.clientearth.org/people/eno-brian/
Richard Dawkins
DiEM25 - https://diem25.org/brian-eno-people-are-rethinking-what-democracy-means
Mark Fisher (k-punk), 'Precarity and Paternalism' - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/011486.html
Forensic Architecture - https://www.forensic-architecture.org
gal-dem - http://gal-dem.com
PAOLO GERBAUDO, The Digital Party (2019) - https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745335797/the-digital-party/
Stuart Hall
Harmonia & Eno '76 - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20947-complete-works
Jon Hopkins
Long Now Foundation - http://longnow.org/seminars/02003/nov/14/the-long-now/
Lowly, 'Baglæns' (2018, song) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ydgJenbQA
Henri Matisse
Media Reform Coalition - https://www.mediareform.org.uk/
Tom Rogerson, 'Finding Shore' (2017, LP) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxWMlK31Mpw
Alexei Sayle
Superflux - http://superflux.in
Raymond Williams
Liv Wynter - https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/pamn9v/hero-of-the-week-liv-wynter-who-resigned-as-tate-artist-in-residence

Suite (212) - series 2

An interview with Brian Eno

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Suite (212) is a radio programme, broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm, and podcast that explores the arts in their social, political, cultural and historical contexts, hosted by Juliet Jacques. We take an inter-disciplinary approach, with an emphasis on innovative, underground or avant-garde work. Sometimes, panels discuss cultural politics; sometimes, we focus on a new publication or exhibition, or a specific individual or group whose work we admire.

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DISCO- NECT, the debut single from DJ Scratch And Sniff, to be released on March 29th 2019.


1973, the year that the UK joined the European Union, is also the year many fans say Disco was born. Fearing the death of Disco with UK's exit from the EU, DJ Scratch and Sniff set off on a two woman mission to ensure that Disco is staying alive and kicking. The debut single “Disco-Nect”from DJ Scratch And Sniff is released on 29th March 2019 on the Colliderscope label, as their response to the Brexit fiasco, and is accompanied by a surreal animated music video by Zennor Alexander. A cheeky electro disco stomper, flavoured with a drop of acid, the track comes with extended dance mixes from London producer/DJ Robot 84 (Nervous, One Little Indian) and Berlin based Grünberg,(Unexpected Audio Productions) and is a retro inspired homage to all things Euro, Disco, and Fun. Fiona Soe Paing, the track's co-writer, recalls how the song came about "I was in my brother's car - he unplugged his phone, and the car talked to us. It said "Disco-nnected" the way computers do. I started singing a little ditty, made the link with Disco-nnect and Brexit, and couldn't stop laughing."

DJ Scratch And Sniff is the love machine of two electronic producers and solo artists, Brooklyn/Edinburgh based avant-diva Marilyn Carino, and Aberdeenshire weird-core experimentalistFiona Soe Paing. Together as DJ Scratch And Sniff (AKA “The Cookie DJ's” ) they create a fully immersive five-senses live experience,cooking up improvised disco based grooves while simultaneously baking gourmet vegan cookies which they serve up to salivating crowds. Shows in support of the release take place at Neu! Reekie, Leith Theatre, Edinburgh on 22nd February and at the BBC 6 Music Festival Fringe Liverpool, as part of Threshold Festival on March 30th.