PERFORMANCE, SILENCE AND SPACE (WITH BRIAN ENO + TOM PHILLIPS + VESNA PETRESIN ROBERT)
Royal Academy
Monday 21 April [6:30 – 8pm]
Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1 T:020.7300.8000
Silence and space are at a premium in our bustling industrious city, with architecture defining the limits and possibilities of engaging with it. The relationships between buildings and music are many, with repeating patterns, harmony of shapes and textures, order of sequences and intervals being essential ingredients of both. When John Cage offered up his seminal work 4′ 33″, focusing on the silence around us, it was clear to listeners that we need not fear about the future of music: it’s around us in all forms. This performance and talk will explore how artists have imaginatively transformed our environment and stimulated thought around notions of place and sense. Painter and musician Tom Phillips RA will be in conversation with his former student, musician and theorist Brian Eno, and architect Vesna Petresin Robert, expanding upon ideas of intellect, intervals and liberty within our environment.
The event will be hosted by Scanner (Robin Rimbaud).
I apologize for the whole LDN thing – I was just trying to be a bit cheeky.