Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series – Brian Eno

The third annual Andrew Carnegie Lecture at Edinburgh College of Art was delivered by influential musician and producer Brian Eno.

The celebrated artist discussed his life and career during a public lecture and at the University of Edinburgh’s George Square Lecture Theatre on 10th May 2016.

Along with his public lecture, the renowned artist also took part in a number of workshops and seminars with students and staff from a variety of programmes at ECA.

[neugestalt]

I love hearing him speak as much as I love his music. It was a great joy to be lucky enough to attend this. The tickets were gone in literally seconds. My hand was hovering over the keyboard waiting for the moment they were available.

[chuffpup]

I love his athiest observations on gospel music. It's fascinating how much insight and genuine empathy he manages convey in his public speaking. His understanding of the processes of the mind, and human instincts in general, are really useful. He's a good teacher, and very funny guy. Easy to like him (his public persona, at least), though through his art, I already did.

[passionparade]

Wow. I am quite surprised by the comments on here. There is no pretentiousness here. He makes extremely valid points that will only increase as time moves on.

[lewiscurry]

What an incredible mind - imagine what the world would be like if we could all see this way

[kickblue]

So they have an introducer. Who introduces another introducer. Who then introduces the guest. Seven minutes drift past...a tumbleweed bumps it way silently across the stage...in the distance, a dog barks. In the words of my great great great grandfather (who I never actually met): GET ON WITH IT !

[glassiomusic]

Anyone else come here for ASMR purposes? I love everything about what Brian says in this video, but it’s also helped me calm down/and fall asleep

[BernardColdwell]

Interesting lecture, learned a lot from this, thanks for sharing

[imslicc]

great lecture. reminds of a lecture by Jacque Fresco called "What the Future Holds". also multidisciplinary and trying to find the root causes of things.

[robertkahn]

I've worked with Brian in the 90s. Sometimes he talks a lot of sense. Sometimes he's away with the fairies.

[ThisTrainIsLost]

Yes!! For a couple of decades now I have been trying to spread my belief that the worst "invention" of the 20th century is specialisation. Specialisation puts blinkers on our ability to observe, carry some knowledge from a variety of areas and to then think up concepts that are rooted in two or more (no real upper limit here) different areas of inquiry. I propose a return to generalisation. There will always be those who wish to dive deep into a particular discipline but, that should not be the focus of our systems of education. I spent 3yrs at a university and left without a diploma and yet, those three years are amongst the most valuable of my life. I never could settle on a major so I spent my time taking courses in a wide variety of subjects. That proved to be an excellent decision, at least for myself. A university should live up to its description and provide a universal education. After all, the whole point of the exercise is to become educated (notice the lack of "in what") and not engage in a race for a piece of paper that you could print out at home.

[Lyndanet]

Didn’t think this would include the history of Carnegie !

[juliankeller]

Pulled from a 1996 interview in his London Studio

"...'a drifting clarifier'. what is that?"

Brian Eno: That was Steart Brand's description... he meant to describe me as someone who generally helps out in thinking situations, but is not stuck to one in particular.

It's flattering but I hope it's true.

[vambo]

ENO always makes me think of the movie Being There!

[mahmoudramdane]

This lan reminds me of one book from Herman Hesse. Narcissius and Goldblum, the eternal fight between thought and image.

[AliciaB.]

I'm surprised no one commented on what he said about autistic people, which was desperately incorrect

[subtitledEN]

Does he always travel with a collection of screwdrivers with him? This is the second talk I watch where he says the same exact thing about screwdrivers.

[bruceh]

Add great motivational speaker to his repertoire.

[mmess]

This is very disappointing, for one can see that the show begins, where he is getting repetitious in different lectures. Isn't it a sign of living too long repeating yourself with your stories? In addition, like in other lectures too, there's very few to learn about music syntax.

[chuffpup]

I want a black shirt with white (ish) (mother of pearl/plastic) buttons, now... Eno's style is infectious. (Mother of plastic? 😏).

[brianharris]

Later that year the fearful folk voted...