Brian Enoreleased his surprise new album,Aurum, Thursday exclusively onApple Music, with the LP making use of the services spatial-audio technology.
To coincidewithAurums arrival, the ambient-music pioneer also sat down with Apple Musics Zane Lowe for an expansive video interview to discuss the 80-minute album, his thoughts on AI technology, his tenure with the Rock Hall-inducted Roxy Music, and his new bookWhat Art Does.
Talking about AI itself, Ive always been happy to welcome new technologies and to see what you could do with them that nobody else thought of doing with them, and what things they could do other than those that they were designed for, because with all music technology, its always very interesting that stuff is designed for one reason; and then people start to find new things they could do that are completely beyond what the designer was thinking about, Eno said, though he did issue a warning.
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Aurummarks the prolific Enos first solo album since since 2022sForeverAndEverNoMore; in the Apple Music interview, Eno says his musical archive spans 10,550 tracks, which equates to a listening time of 44 days, 8 hours, 38 minutes, and 28 seconds.
Last year, anacclaimed and innovative documentaryabout the incomparable musician/producer/artist debuted at Sundance, witha 24-hour version of the film livestreaming for home audiencesearlier this year.
