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2024 Filmmaker Gary Hustwit released a documentary titled 'Eno,' which uses a computer program to randomly select elements from 30 hours of interviews and 500 hours of archival footage, creating a unique show at each screening.
May 23 2024 Eno's work Enough was nominated for the Best Contemporary Song Ivor Novello Award.
2023 Oldfield's label announces his retirement from music.
November 2023 Eno signed another open letter calling for a ceasefire and an end to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
November 7 2023 Released Philip Glass Piano Etudes: The Complete Folios 1–20 & Essays from Fellow Artists, a deluxe boxed set with piano etudes and essays
October 2023 Eno signed an open letter from artists advocating for a ceasefire during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
June 2023 Eno released a collaborative single with The Leisure Society titled 'Brave Are The Waves' on Willkommen Records.
May 2023 Eno released a collaborative album with Fred again.. called Secret Life through Four Tet's label Text Records.
May 26 2023 A 50th anniversary edition of Tubular Bells was released, featuring a new master of the original album and an additional 8-minute previously unreleased track, 'Introduction to Tubular Bells 4'.
April 2023 An instrumental version of the record Foreverandevernomore, entitled the Forever Voiceless Edition, was released.
February 2023 The single Making Gardens Out of Silence in the Uncanny Valley, was released, which replaced the concluding track on the Japanese version of Foreverandevernomore.
2022 The Metropolitan Opera's production of Akhnaten won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.
October 2022 Eno released a mostly voice-based album called Foreverandevernomore.
2021 Eno continued his work on the audio-video conferencing project into 2021.
2021 Eno co-founded EarthPercent, a charity that raises funds for climate causes with support from various notable artists.
2021 Eno provided original music for Ben Lawrence's documentary Ithaka about John Shipton's battle to save his son, Julian Assange.
April 2021 Eno participated in the online concert 'Live for Gaza,' featuring artists from Gaza including Osprey V, Wafaa Alnjeili, and Badeel Band.
January 2021 Told the Los Angeles Times about working on an open-source audio-video conferencing software as an alternative to Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 Eno began working with developers on audio-video conferencing software that addresses issues of existing corporate solutions.
2020 Receives the Grammy Trustees Award.
March 2020 Brian Eno and his brother, Roger Eno, released their collaborative album Mixing Colours.
2019 Brian Eno was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the glam rock group Roxy Music.
2019 Eno participated in DAU, contributing six auditory ambiances to an immersive installation in Paris.
2019 Brian Eno was awarded the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication for Music & Arts at the Starmus Festival.
December 2019 Alongside 42 other cultural figures, Eno signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party and its manifesto under Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election.
November 2019 Eno signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during the 2019 UK general election, describing him as a 'beacon of hope' against far-right nationalism.
May 18 2019 The naming of Asteroid 81948 Eno was officially published by the Minor Planet Center.
January 10 2019 Premiered Symphony No. 12, based on David Bowie's album Lodger, at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by John Adams
2018 Eno released Music for Installations, a box set that compiled various works created for art installations.
2018 Receives the Kennedy Center Honors.
April 2018 Eno released The Weight Of History / Only Once Away My Son, a collaborative double A-side with Kevin Shields for Record Store Day.
2017 Eno signed an open letter as a member of the Labour Party, stating that voting for the Liberal Democrats was akin to 'voting Tory without admitting it.'
2017 Eno released Sisters as a web download, continuing his innovative approach to music distribution.
2017 Eno delivered the Andrew Carnegie Lecture at Edinburgh University.
2017 Eno was appointed President of the Stop the War Coalition, an organization he has been involved with since its establishment in 2001.
2017 Eno showcased 'Speaker Flowers and Lightboxes' at Castello Svevo in Trani, Italy, further exploring the concept of sound-producing sculptures.
2017 Publicly expressed support for US President Donald Trump and Brexit in an interview.
September 22 2017 Premiered Piano Concerto No. 3 with pianist Simone Dinnerstein at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music.
January 2017 Oldfield released Return to Ommadawn, a sequel to his earlier album Ommadawn, which reached No. 4 in the UK charts.
January 31 2017 Premiered Symphony No. 11 at Carnegie Hall on his 80th birthday, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
January 1 2017 Eno released Reflection, an album of ambient, generative music, through Warp Records.
2016 Eno also released Reflection, furthering his exploration of generative music.
2016 Eno's light boxes were first shown commercially at the Paul Stolper Gallery in London as part of the Light Music exhibition, which included lenticular paintings by the artist.
2016 '77 Million Paintings' was projected onto the giant Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory.
2016 Eno created a sound installation at the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank.
2016 Eno was added to Edinburgh University's roll of honour.
September 2016 In September, Brian Eno cited conceptual, video, and installation artist Jeremy Deller as an influential artist in a conversation with the website Just Six Degrees, highlighting Deller's approach to socially generative art.
September 30 2016 Eno co-wrote and produced the single Love Without Violins for the Portuguese synthpop band The Gift.

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