Music for Civic Recovery Centre
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Music for Civic Recovery Centre is an ambient
Installation
album from British
musician Brian Eno
, released in 2000.
The music on the album is taken from an Installation
—a show featuring music and visuals—that took place at the Sonic Boom exhibition of the Hayward Gallery, London, in April–June 2000. The event, featuring over 30 other artists, was curated by David Toop
.
Part of Eno's Quiet Club series of Installations, it combined 12 audio elements with 10 visual light-sculpture generative elements, which was, itself, part of a series of multi-dimensional generative music pieces using asynchronous CD players, carousel projectors and video monitors used in other Installation pieces.
In a conversation with Toop, Eno's view is of a quiet "recovery area" situated within a city area, a theory which he has spoken of since the mid eighties; a "critically functioning public space", a (preferably) darkened room containing large-format screens, lots of CD players and sculptures.
Eno has said of his Installations "I want to make places that feel like music. I want to make things which are like music for the eyes. I want to extend music out into space, into the three dimensions of space, and into colour".
The album contains only one track, which is based upon, and essentially an extended remix / melding of the tracks Ikebukuro, from his 1992 album The Shutov Assembly
and Kites II & Kites III from his 1999 album Kite Stories
.
The heavily treated, slowed-down vocals of the Kite Stories
part are based on a Japanese ghost-story, Onmyo-Ji, by Reiko Otano and was read by Kyoko Inatome, a waitress from his favorite sushi restaurant.
Eno calls this process "composting" .... "...so many processings and reprocessings - it's a bit like making soup from the leftovers of the day before, which in turn was made from leftovers...", "some earlier pieces I worked on became digested by later ones, which in turn became digested again. The technique is like composting: converting what would otherwise have been waste into nourishment".
In that same year, 2000, Eno issued a limited-edition 2-CD album with Reiko Okano
, Baku Yumemakura
& Peter Schwalm called Music for Onmyoji, the first CD of which consists of Japanese music played on traditional instruments.
A "Quiet Club by Brian Eno" Installation was held in the Galleria of Frankfurt
Fair and Exhibition Centre, April 18 to 24 2004, as the contribution of Light+Building 2004 to Luminale. The music was remixed each time by a different musician.
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
Installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
album from British
United Kingdom
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musician Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
, released in 2000.
Overview
An Opal release, with no catalogue number, this title is only available from EnoShop.The music on the album is taken from an Installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
—a show featuring music and visuals—that took place at the Sonic Boom exhibition of the Hayward Gallery, London, in April–June 2000. The event, featuring over 30 other artists, was curated by David Toop
David Toop
David Toop is an English musician and author, and as of 2001 was visiting Research Fellow in the Media School at London College of Communication. He was notably a member of The Flying Lizards. He was a prominent contributor to the British magazine The Face. He is a regular contributor to The Wire,...
.
Part of Eno's Quiet Club series of Installations, it combined 12 audio elements with 10 visual light-sculpture generative elements, which was, itself, part of a series of multi-dimensional generative music pieces using asynchronous CD players, carousel projectors and video monitors used in other Installation pieces.
In a conversation with Toop, Eno's view is of a quiet "recovery area" situated within a city area, a theory which he has spoken of since the mid eighties; a "critically functioning public space", a (preferably) darkened room containing large-format screens, lots of CD players and sculptures.
Eno has said of his Installations "I want to make places that feel like music. I want to make things which are like music for the eyes. I want to extend music out into space, into the three dimensions of space, and into colour".
The album contains only one track, which is based upon, and essentially an extended remix / melding of the tracks Ikebukuro, from his 1992 album The Shutov Assembly
The Shutov Assembly
The Shutov Assembly is an ambient album by British musician Brian Eno, released on November 10, 1992 on Warner.-Overview:The album is dedicated to Russian artist Sergei Shutov, and was created as an assembly of tracks for him, as he had mentioned to Eno the difficulty he had of getting Eno's music...
and Kites II & Kites III from his 1999 album Kite Stories
Kite Stories
Kite Stories is an ambient installation album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1999.-Overview:An Opal release, with no catalogue number, this title is only available from EnoShop....
.
The heavily treated, slowed-down vocals of the Kite Stories
Kite Stories
Kite Stories is an ambient installation album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1999.-Overview:An Opal release, with no catalogue number, this title is only available from EnoShop....
part are based on a Japanese ghost-story, Onmyo-Ji, by Reiko Otano and was read by Kyoko Inatome, a waitress from his favorite sushi restaurant.
Eno calls this process "composting" .... "...so many processings and reprocessings - it's a bit like making soup from the leftovers of the day before, which in turn was made from leftovers...", "some earlier pieces I worked on became digested by later ones, which in turn became digested again. The technique is like composting: converting what would otherwise have been waste into nourishment".
In that same year, 2000, Eno issued a limited-edition 2-CD album with Reiko Okano
Reiko Okano
is a Japanese manga artist. In 1989, she won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Fancy Dance. She is married to director Makoto Tezuka.- References :...
, Baku Yumemakura
Baku Yumemakura
is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. He is best known for writing Jōgen no Tsuki wo Taberu Shishi , which won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award...
& Peter Schwalm called Music for Onmyoji, the first CD of which consists of Japanese music played on traditional instruments.
Credits
- Music : Brian Eno
- Main Voice : Kyoko Inatome
- Translation : Charmian Norman-Taylor
A "Quiet Club by Brian Eno" Installation was held in the Galleria of Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
Fair and Exhibition Centre, April 18 to 24 2004, as the contribution of Light+Building 2004 to Luminale. The music was remixed each time by a different musician.
External links
- Images from Civic Recovery Centre by Odd Marthinussen
- Eno Land feature
- Interview; questions from the Sonic Boom Exhibition
- SlashSeconds feature on Quiet Clubs
- Beep discography entry
- Discogs.com entry
