77 Million Paintings By Brian Eno

77 Million Paintings is a digital art software/DVD combination by British musician Brian Eno, released in 2006.
The release consists of two discs, one containing the software that creates the randomized music and images that emulate a single screen of one of Eno's video installation pieces. The other is a DVD containing interviews with the artist.
The title is derived from the possible number of combinations of video and music which can be generated by the software, effectively ensuring that the same image/soundscape is never played twice.
An accompanying booklet includes a piece by Nick Robertson describing the intention behind the software, and an article by Brian Eno ("My Light Years") describing his experiments with light and music.
The software was developed by Jake Dowie for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems.
Far from containing 77 million paintings, the software consists of 296 original works which are overlaid and combined up to four at a time in a simulation of simultaneous projection onto a common screen. The various images are slowly faded in and out asynchronously before being replaced by another random element. Also, the music that accompanies the paintings, if played on a Mac G5 or a Windows PC, is randomly generated in a similar way, so the selection of elements and their duration in the piece are arbitrarily chosen, forming a virtually infinite number of variations.
Released in a numbered edition of 1000, only on the Japanese label Beat Records in 2006 via license from Opal, 77 Million contains 9 audio tracks generated at the March 2006 Laforet, Tokyo installation of 77 Million Paintings.

1. Never Stomp 00:00
2. System Piano 02:36
3. Bonk 12 04:41
4. Luxor Night Car 07:39
5. Targa Summer 10:31
6. Cold 15:30
7. Little Slicer 18:05
8. Surf Birds 19:48
9. Targa 23:26