Brian Eno: 77 Million Paintings

British musician, composer, producer, and polymath Brian Eno has long been recognized as one of the most influential figures in contemporary music. His innovative studio and production techniques privilege theory over practice and chance over predictability, establishing a conceptual basis that informs both his music and his visual work. Conceived by Eno as “visual music,” 77 Million Paintings is a constantly evolving sound and digital image-scape born from his continuous exploration into light as an artist’s medium and the aesthetic possibilities of generative software. Changing at an almost imperceptible pace, it is impossible to predict which images will come together at any one time, which images will appear on adjacent screens, and which images will precede and follow—bringing together old and new, analogue and digital, hand drawn and computer rendered, all existing cheek by jowl. Eno’s visual work has paradigmatically reconfigured the boundaries between light, space, sound, and art, echoing his accomplishments in experimental music.