Brian Eno
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- May 15, 1948 · Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK
Biography
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College. Then he studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting. He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice". Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, a newspaper column in The Observer, a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine, and "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks or random insights are intended to resolve dilemmas.
Known for
Filmography
- The 4 Lives of Pyotr Mamonov · Self
- Imperfection · Music
- OK MR BRUCE · Self
- James: Getting Away with It · Self
- Snow · Music
- Together for Palestine · Self, Producer
- Daedalus · Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
- DEVO · Self
- Eno · Self, Music
- Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens · Self, Music
- CAN and Me · Self
- Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC · Self
- We Are As Gods · Self, Music
- Ithaka · Music
- Wood and Water · Music
- The Year of the Everlasting Storm · Music
- ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno
- The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage! · Songs
- 2025: The Long Hot Winter · Radio presenter
- Top Boy · Music
- Rams · Music
- Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams · Self
- By This River · Music
- 492: A Man Called Death · Music
- Hi Stranger · Music
- Soundbreaking · Self
- Late Anthropocene · Music
- Slowdive: Souvlaki · Self
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl · Music
- 100 Years - Armenian Genocide · Music
- We Are Many · Self, Musician
- What Difference Does It Make? · Self
- The Lost World · Music
- David Bowie: Five Years · Self
- Laylou · Music
- The British Guide to Showing Off
- Top Boy · Music
- U2: From the Sky Down · Self
- Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth
- Ride, Rise, Roar · Self
- Article 12
- U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle · Self
- Brian Eno: Another Green World · Self
- The Lovely Bones · Music
- Roxy Music: More Than This - The Story of Roxy Music · Self
- Linear · Music
- Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All: A Visual History 1972-1982 · Self
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man · Self
- The Pervert's Guide to Cinema · Music
- Mein Freund, der Mörder · Music
- 14 Video Paintings · Director, Music
- The Colbert Report
- The Jacket · Music
- Roxy Music: Inside 1972-1974 · Self
- Clean · Music
- David Bowie - Sound and Vision · Self
- Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me · Additional Soundtrack
- Fear X · Music
- Timeshift · Self
- 1 Giant Leap · Self
- Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story
- 2001 and Beyond · Music
- In the Ocean
- Roxy Music Musikladen 1973 · Self
- Shadowman · Music
- Mon Paradis - Der Winterpalast · Music
- Click · Self
- Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven · Self
- Buddy Boy · Music
- The Million Dollar Hotel · Music
- Simon, the Magician · Music
- Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree · Self
- Music for Airports · Music
- How Buildings Learn · Music
- Classic Albums · Self
- Neverwhere · Music
- David Bowie: The Making of "1.Outside" · Self
- Ghost in the Shell · Songs
- Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia · Self
- The Pillow Book · Music