MUSIC
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2019
8:00 PM

B&B Festival (Music of Brian Eno & Brian Ferneyhough)
Spectrum
70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$15; $10 students/seniors
http://www.spectrumnyc.com/site/calendar.php

If there's any connection between the music of ambient pop star Brian Eno and New Complexity godfather Brian Ferneyhough — other than that their composers are both English and both named Brian (and both brilliant) — it's oppositional: Ferneyhough's New Complexity was developed as a corrective to the kind of music Eno writes. You can follow the twists and turns tonight At 8 PM, pianist Jana Luksts will play Ferneyhough and other arch-modernists. At 9 PM, an oboe/piano duo will play Ferneyhough and then an ambient specialist will play some of the more pop-oriented of Eno's ambient music. At 10 PM, a solo guitarist tackles Eno's (No Pussyfooting) collaboration with Robert Fripp. It's not clear whether each hour is separately ticketed or not.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Italian charmer LaRina Pastificio & Vino leans more toward Enoesque surface simplicity than Ferneyhoughesque surface complexity — and is all the better for it. After the last set, Cardiff Giant for purely local spirits, or Walter's if you want food.