Yet perseverance induces an almost spiritual state of mind as the gallery acquires the dimension of a cathedral nave illuminated by a giant piece of animated stained glass. At times, one is reminded of Matisse cutouts or Pollock scratches at others, of lurid tie-dye experiments and 1970s wallpaper. The patterns change so slowly that you are barely aware of them melting into one another, while the music murmurs imperceptibly in the background.
Essentially, it's a giant kaleidoscope with a therapeutic soundtrack, though the effect is inescapably seductive. Constellations (77 Million Paintings) - to give it its full title - is a sound and light installation in which a computer generates an almost infinite combination of hand-painted slides. Of course, Eno's "paintings" are paintings in the sense that Music for Airports is a popular party album. Baltic has made up the shortfall by showing 77 million of them all at once. His paintings are rarely exhibited in this country. B rian Eno is best known as a founder member of Roxy Music, as a record producer and the pioneer of meandering ambient albums which go nowhere for a very long time.
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