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Breeze / Cinder Block Plinth - Brian Eno Speaker Flowers Sound Installation at Marlborough House

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Breeze / cinder block plinth with zigzag surface textures used as a base for a speaker flower sculpture. Steel stalks - which act as an electrical earth to the speakers they support are wound with transparently insulated electrical wire. Crocodile clips are used to secure electrical connections.

See also the related "Brian Eno 77 Million Paintings" set, - an exhibition that ran concurrently at Fabrica Gallery during the festival.

This image is part of a set of photos of the Brian Eno Speaker Flowers Sound Installation at Marlborough House (and also of the house itself) on the Old Steine, Brighton, East sussex, UK. The exhibition was presented by Fabrica Art Gallery, as part of the Brighton Festival, May 2010. The installation includes the poems and words of Rick Holland.

The Grade I listed house was built circa 1765 , purchased at one time by the Duke of Marlborough, and substantially remodelled by the Scottish architect Robert Adam.

More links:

Brian Eno Shop
Arena TV series theme tune video by Brian Eno.
Microsoft Windows Start-Up Sounds collection video (Including Windows 95 music by Brian Eno).

Marlborough House (My Brighton and Hove)
The Architecture of Robert Adam (1728-1792) from RCAHMS (the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)
Humberts Leisure Brochure on property [.pdf download]

Some of the photos in this set are presented in multiple versions made possible using HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography - these variations are displayed with more than one exposure, gamma, "local adaptation" compression or "unsharp mask" process.

Many rooms had their windows screened using coloured Crêpe paper / tissue paper. This gave their illumination a colour cast - which has been exaggerated (or neutralised) on an image by image basis. The actual experience of the coloured light was one of only a slight and soft hue.

In some instances the photos have modified to give an architectural, classical, "two-point" perspective - with forced, parallel verticals.

England!

Image by Eleventh Earl of Mar
The office of one of my co-workers.

This has nothing to do with the world cup. It's always like this. If anything, he's toned it down to emphasis the fact that it has nothing to do with that particular competition.


The footnote to this is that we went to Pickwick's pub in Woodland Hills to watch England vs. Sweden - two great goals by England, two rubbish lazy flukey luck bastard goals by Sweden - and while we were there Paul had his silly England flag pointy finger taken by someone.

Paul recovered it from this rather sad looking little bloke who had taken it outside.

When we were walking back to Paul's car, we saw this guy carrying the flag that he had snatched off of Paul's window - the stick part was snapped off, with just the clip and a stub of plastic stick left.

There were something like ten of us watching this guy return to his very battered gold Toyota Camry, and we were shouting after him to bring the flag back. He denied it was Paul's flag and insisted it was his, despite the fact that it was quite obviously broken. We tried to surround the car but he peeled out backwards and sped off down another street. He was a very scary man, the type that might even keep a gun in his car.

Anyway we all had a good laugh about it - very weird behaviour indeed. I bet we see him in Pickwick's again.