Personal Info
Known For
Sound
Birthdate
1948-05-15 (Age: 78)
Place of Birth
Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK
Brian Eno
Biography
Brian 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.
Filmography (40)
Together for Palestine
2025
Daedalus
2024
DEVO
2024
Eno
2024
Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens
2023
CAN and Me
2022
Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC
2022
We Are As Gods
2022
2025: The Long Hot Winter
2019
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams
2018
Slowdive: Souvlaki
2015
We Are Many
2014
What Difference Does It Make?
2014
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
