Installation at the Sydney Opera House fights against climate change

Sydney - Brian Eno has already made a name for himself as a musician, producer, and visual artist. Now he hopes that his latest work - an art installation on the famous Sydney Opera House - will inspire other artists to combat global warming.
    Eno, who describes himself as a "non-musician," is the curator of the new festival Luminous, which features musical performances, art installations, and discussions organized by the Sydney Opera. The former member of Roxy Music will also perform at three concerts during the festival and has designed a light projection to be projected onto the roof of the Opera House every evening during the event, which runs from May 26 to June 14.
    Eno hopes that subsequent discussions, which will also include environmental advocacy groups, will spur artists to take action that will compel others to think about climate changes.
    "Artists have become lazy in expressing their opinions," Eno told Reuters in an interview outside the Sydney Opera. "They can create awareness of what is cool and what is not, what is acceptable, exciting, appropriate... I would like artists to think about things like global warming."
    Sixty-one-year-old Eno is known for commenting on a wide range of issues from war to climate change, as well as for his experiments in art and music. Throughout his career, he has collaborated on albums with U2, David Bowie, and Coldplay. His eclectic and "ambient" electronic music has been featured in films such as Trainspotting, Velvet Underground, and No Country for Old Men.
    Eno, who likes to invent new words, also coined the term "ambient music." He uses it to characterize the genre of quiet music that alters human perception of the environment and which had not been named before him. "Sometimes you find that there is a category of human experience that has not been named, but everyone knows about it. In such a case, I will find a term that captures it," says Eno.
    Although his music career has brought him fame, Eno studied visual arts and has always engaged with them. His goal is to use art to make people stop and think. "I try to make things seductive and enticing enough that people want to immerse themselves in them... and for a little while, stop being alone with themselves."

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