It is Brian Eno, composer, musician, producer, visual artist, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Biennale Musica 2023,
"for his research on the quality, beauty and diffusion of digital sound and his conception of acoustic space as an instrument compositional".
Miller Puckette, mathematician, programmer, theorist and performer, was awarded the Silver Lion for the conception and development of Max/Msp and Pure Data software.
This was decided by the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale, accepting the proposal of Lucia Ronchetti, Director of the Music sector.
The delivery to Eno will take place on 22 October next, in the Sala delle Colonne of Ca' Giustinian, venue of the Biennale, followed by a conversation with the music critic Tom Service.
On October 19, the award ceremony with the Silver Lion in Puckette will take place, followed by a conversation with the American musicologist Nina Sun Eidsheim.
The 67th International Festival of Contemporary Music will be held from 16 to 29 October and will have the title "Micro-Music", which aims to highlight "the charm and expressive richness of digital sound".
"Brian Eno's compositional work - reads Lucia Ronchetti's motivation - was conceived from the beginning as a generative process that evolves according to a potentially infinite temporal dimension, anticipating many of the current compositional trends linked to digital sound. The recording studio conceived as a meta - compositional tool, realm of elaboration, multiplication and editing of
recorded sound fragments, acoustic simulacra, autonomous sound objects, has allowed Brian Eno to create immersive electronic spaces that transform and permeate the acoustic reality in which we are immersed, modulating it according to dramaturgies always changing".
Eno has broadened his creative path by involving a variety of disciplines: painting, sculpture, video art.
In 1985 he was at the 42nd Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica (Videomusica section) with 'Thursday Afternoon', an 80-minute video painting of which he signed the direction, screenplay and music;
the year after he presents one of his visual sculptures by him, Sound, light and video installation for the 42nd International Art Exhibition entitled;
in 2006 he was invited to the Biennale Musica, with a complex video installation located in three environments ringed one into the other, 'Painting like Music'.
This year, for the Biennale Musica, Brian Eno will be on stage at the Teatro La Fenice on October 21 with the world premiere of the new project 'Ships', together with the Baltic Sea Philharmonic conducted by Kristjan Järvi, the actor Peter Serafinowicz, the historical collaborator and guitarist Leo
Abrahams, the software designer Peter Chilvers, in interaction with the diffused and elaborated orchestral atmospheres for the acoustic space of the theatre.