Brian and Roger Eno invite fans to participate in new video project

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English musicians Brian Eno and Roger Eno are inviting their fans to submit clips of their life in lockdown to a new website, from which they will select 11 as official accompaniment for music from their first-ever collaborative album.

“We want to ask people in the next few weeks to take a single shot of a quiet scene, at home, or out the window, or in their garden. Clouds passing, rustling tree leaves, a bird nesting, people conducting activities in the house: quiet moments that we are all enjoying, together, in isolation,” Brian Eno and Roger Eno said in a statement.

The musicians further explained that these homemade videos should be shot in landscape format and preferably in slow motion.

The clips should then be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo or Instagram, with links being submitted until Friday, May 29.

Submissions will be available to watch on the Mixing Colours site, while eventually 11 clips will be chosen to complete the Eno brothers’ “A Quiet Scene” project.

This collaborative project was inspired by the four videos they released with British musician and software designer Peter Chilvers for the album cuts “Celeste”, “Sand” “Ultramarine” and “Blonde”.

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“The more you listen to this, particularly with the fabulous worlds that Brian has created, you can really walk into this enormous landscape and stay,” Roger Eno once said of “Mixing Colours” which took 15 years in the making.

The earliest pieces on “Mixing Colours” were first composed in 2005, but were not originally thought about as part of a larger body of work.

“We weren’t directing this towards an end result. It was like a back-and-forth conversation we were having over a 15-year period. I’d wake up, go straight upstairs, put my equipment on and improvise, then I sent things to Brian that I thought he might be interested in. The idea for a full album emerged as the number of pieces kept increasing and the results kept being interesting. It’s something that neither of us could have arrived at alone,” Roger Eno recalled.

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All but one of the 18 cuts of “Mixing Colours” are titled after hues such as “Burnt Umber”, “Obsidian” and “Verdigris”, comparable to those of the abstract paintings by artist Dom Theobald featured in the album’s cover. JB

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