Brian Eno will be teaching a songwriting course early next year – find out more below.
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Last night (November 13), the School Of Song announced its January 2025 program, which will see the legendary multi-hyphenate conduct a songwriting course for its applicants. The course, titled Songwriting With Brian Eno, will take place over the course of a month.
The School of Song wrote on social media to announce the course: “School of Song is overjoyed to announce that Brian Eno will be leading our Songwriting Workshop in January 2025. Come join us as @brianeno guides us through his multifaceted relationship to the creative process.”
The course will see Eno conduct four lectures via Zoom, lead hour-long Q&A sessions with students, song-share sessions and even a live in-class writing exercise with the musician himself. Topics being covered during the course include The Role Of Surrender, Avant Gardening, Oblique Strategies and more.
The program will cost USD$160, with registrations closing on January 4 – just a day before the first session begins. You can register for the course here.
Eno said in a statement per the course website: “I’m looking forward to the chance to properly articulate some ideas about the creative process that have been fermenting over the last 50 years. To be able to do this with some fresh young minds and imaginations was a chance that I couldn’t refuse.”
Back in July, Gary Hustwit’s documentary Eno premiered in cinemas. The documentary scored a four-star review from NME, which read: “The film’s segments come across as mere dips into an oceanic intellect; so much more of Eno’s life, broad-reaching career, stories and ideas are there to be uncovered with further viewings. But the core Eno that emerges is one dedicated to the deconstruction of music and its making at a fundamental level, then recreating it in amorphous terms: feeling, landscape, peripheral perception, belonging. He’s cast here as the Columbus of the never-trodden sonic road, and it’s certainly fitting that one viewing of Eno can never fully encompass him.”
The documentary’s soundtrack was released in April on digital and in June on physical formats. The record is made up of 17 tracks, featuring “work from early solo outings, acclaimed collaborations with the likes of David Bryne, John Cale, Cluster and more recently, Fred again… all the way through to music from his latest album, ‘FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE’, and his 2022 appearance at the Acropolis in Athens with brother Roger.”
In May last year, Eno teamed up with Fred Again.. to release the collaborative album ‘Secret Life’. The LP scored a three-star review from Will Richards for NME, who wrote: “This surprise album – despite its frequent beauty – works best as a puzzle piece rather than a standout record in its own right.”