Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan - Brian Eno NY 1981 p 1 / 4

A unique and multifaceted talent, with every decade Brian Eno's genius conceptualism unfolds to reveal further layers and varying routes of interest.
He describes himself as a "non musician", the musically prolific and fruitful man is the founding member of Roxy Music is best known a a producer.
He was behind the boards for some of the most aclaimed albums made by Talking Heads, Devo, David Bowie and U2.
His sound sound experiments and music are varied  and beautiful including many abstract hypnotic tunes with brilliant countermelodies that should have been hits 
but were not.
               
"In 1989, Brian Eno was invited to compose and perform a new work for the consecration of The Tenkawa Shinto Shrine near Kyoto. The head priest of the monastery was an admirer of Brian's music and owned every record he had made. In his preparatory notes for the performance Brian considers Musical equivalents for the shrine's significance as a receiver of spiritual energy. 
"It occured to me" , he wrote, "that it would make sense to think of the performance as a way of receiving and digesting and then 
re-presenting various acoustic phenomena in the valley."'
He explores concepts of mixing and amplifying ambient sound in concentric circles ranging from the very edge of the valley to the focus point of the shrine itself, proposing the use of fireworks, the sounds of work, little instruments such as clickers and whirling tubes, burning fuses,  steam and the hum of lights on dimmers.
Joseph Cambell observed that "living in Shinto is not the following of some set-down moral code, but a living in gratitude and awe amid the mystery of things...... it is incorrect to say that Shinto lacks moral ideas. The basic moral idea is that the processes of nature cannot be evil."
Brian muses, "Maybe that's why the head monk likes my records. He feels there's some Shinto in there already perhaps.
Certainly the notion of the continuum from nature into music is very appropriate."