Brian Eno about Helping the Music Business Help Save the Planet

15 Questions: Compiled from a longer keynote interview at IMS Ibiza 2022, in which Brian Eno talked about his charity EarthPercent

30 Nov 2022

"What artists have always done is trying to imagine different worlds. Now that different world can be just a song. Or it can be a huge Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork. And the work of artists is to try to compress a world into a song, a little world that you can spend some time in. What does it feel like to be in that world? That's what art is always saying, What does it feel like to be in a different world? This one or that one? Or that other one? Which ones do you like? And that's the way how humans test the future and get a feeling for the future. By going into these little simulations of future worlds that we call songs, or paintings, or sculptures, or films, or whatever else"

Brian Eno: “People realize that if you’re an artist, you’re probably doing the job that you wanted to do. And I think that makes it’s rather different if they speak about the environment. If a politician is asking you to do something you think: What’s in it for them? But for artists, there’s nothing to gain other than the thing itself. Nobody’s gonna vote for me because I’m not standing for election. So there’s a kind of faith that these are people who are doing what they want to do, and they’ve chosen to take time to do this.

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