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Luminous Music: Sites2See. Last updated May 2010

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Vivid Sydney: A Festival of Music, Light and Ideas. Link to Festival website.

Luminous is an annual festival of music, debate, light and performance at the Sydney Opera House, as part of Vivid Sydney. The inaugural festival is curated by Brian Eno.

The festival’s curator, Brian Eno, has organised local and international musicians to participate in Luminous. Find out more about them. Listen to an interview with Eno.

77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno. Luminous features Brian Eno’s widely acclaimed light and sound installation. Entry is free.

See images of the installation at its San Francisco premier …

See images of the installation at the Venice Biennale in 2006.

See images of the installation at the Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo in 2006.

See also the Vivid-related page Site2See: Smart Light Technology.

Ambient music/ Dig deeper—linked to pop-up

Brian Eno is a pioneer of ambient music. Listen to 1/1 from Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno. Listen to more tracks by Eno and other Luminous artists by searching Grooveshark.

Brian Eno popularised the term generative music to describe music that is ‘always-different and changing, and that is created by a system’. 77 Million Paintings is an example of a generative piece.

View 7 More Hours in 77 Million Paintings. Compose using algorithms at Tune Toys, or explore more resources at the Virtual Museum of Sound-Toys.

‘… all of my ambient music I should say, really was based … on the idea that it's possible to think of a system or a set of rules which once set in motion will create music for you …’ Brian Eno, 1996 Imagination Conference, San Francisco

Read also New Eno music gets ‘generative’ at Wired magazine, or Let there be light on the Apple website.

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