Brian Eno: ‘Sex, drugs, art… they’re all ways of surrendering’
I think attention’s prioritization of the optical is already waning in favor of alternative modes of being-in-common, reflected in the rise of a discourse of ‘care’ in contemporary art and performance—I’m thinking of all the collective, experiential, sensorial, even spiritual practices that I’m seeing today. In New York, I see exhibitions and perfo
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"I believe," he writes, "that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, new friends." The point is that a cappella harnesses the creative intelligence of a whole group. By contrast, says Eno, high art is about separating geniuses from foot soldiers. "A cappella subverts that: it's highly composed music but th... See more
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Sylvan immersed himself in communities of ravers, Grateful Dead fans, hip-hoppers, and metalheads in scholarly research that led to his book Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music.