Eternal September
Enter an alternate digital world of mythological nostalgia
Eternal September is an ever-expanding alternate digital reality of music, text, animation, and film interwoven within its own discrete wiki system unconnected from the World Wide Web. Conceived and created in the dark days of the pandemic by Grammy-winning producer and composer William Brittelle, Eternal September is a collaborative large-scale multimedia project exploring “internet" as medium.
Beta version coming soon.
About the Creative Director / Composer
William Brittelle (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based genre-fluid composer, Grammy-winning producer and creator of hyper-text and multimedia. An avid collaborator, Brittelle has worked with a number of artists across multiple disciplines. His latest full-length LP entitled Spiritual America featuring Wye Oak, the Metropolis Ensemble, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, was released by Nonesuch/New Amsterdam in 2019. Increasingly active as a producer, upcoming and recent projects include albums with Alex Temple/Julia Holter/Spektral Quartet, vocalist/percussionist Jodie Landau, the string ensemble Owls, singer/composer Aditya Prakash, vocalist Holland Andrews, violinist Michi Wiancko, keyboardist Erika Dohi, and Roomful of Teeth. More »
Collaborating Artists
About the Project
The content of Eternal September is developed collectively with musicians from the Metropolis Ensemble network alongside guest artists including members of Roomful of Teeth, Wye Oak, and Son Lux and an array of multimedia artists and creative technologists.
Eternal September collaborators, either as individuals or in groups, create content as “morphs”, i.e. alternate reality versions of themselves. This process, reflective of the early utopian days of the internet, allows collaborators to create freely without IRL implications. When completed, all Eternal September content is housed at the era-specific site and freely available to the public for exploration.
Under the creative direction of William Brittelle, Eternal September is produced and developed in partnership with Metropolis Ensemble, Brown Arts Institute at Brown University, and a constellation of supporting and participating organizations, venues, studios, and record labels including Cincinnati Symphony, The Walker Art Center, Figureight Recordings, and New Amsterdam Records.
Eternal September debuted in 2021 with a full length 90-minute opening tour video commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony and the Walker Art Center, also featuring members of Metropolis Ensemble. A beta version of the site, supported by the Brown Arts Institute and Metropolis Ensemble, will launch on May 5, 2023 and be celebrated with a special Open House event on the Brown University campus. Further digital releases and IRL special events will follow in the fall of 2023 and beyond.
Open House + Beta Launch Party
May 5, 2023 — 7pm
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts — Brown University
Brown Arts Initiative is hosting an open house with simultaneous film screenings, an immersive video installation room, and exploration lab featuring food, live experimental music by Skyler Hill, and a talk with Eternal September’s creative director William Brittelle and other members of the creative team, hosted by Professor Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo. This event is free and open to the public.
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