Brian Eno
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Daedalus as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
- 2024 · Eno as Self
- 2024 · Devo as Self (archive footage)
- 2023 · Peter Gabriel - i/o as Bells, Synthesizer, Percussion
- 2023 · Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens as Self
- 2022 · CAN and Me as Self
- 2022 · Moonage Daydream as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · We Are As Gods as Self
- 2019 · 2025: The Long Hot Winter as Radio presenter
- 2018 · Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams as Self
- 2014 · We Are Many as Self
- 2014 · What Difference Does It Make? as Self
- 2013 · David Bowie: Five Years as Self
- 2011 · The British Guide to Showing Off as
- 2011 · U2: From the Sky Down as Self
- 2011 · Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth as
- 2011 · Ride, Rise, Roar as Self
- 2010 · U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle as Self
- 2010 · Brian Eno: Another Green World as Self
- 2009 · Roxy Music: More Than This - The Story of Roxy Music as Self
- 2009 · In The Ocean – A Film About the Classical Avant Garde as
- 2007 · Scott Walker: 30 Century Man as Self
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as
- 2004 · Roxy Music: Inside 1972-1974 as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · David Bowie - Sound and Vision as Self
- 2002 · Timeshift as self
- 2002 · 1 Giant Leap as Self
- 2001 · Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story as
- 2001 · Roxy Music Musikladen 1973 as Self - keyboards
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 2000 · Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven as Self
- 1999 · Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree as Self
- 1997 · Classic Albums as Self
- 1995 · The Making of the 'Outside' Album as Self
- 1995 · Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia as Self
- 1995 · Father Ted as Father Brian Eno
- 1995 · The History of Rock 'n' Roll as Self
- 1993 · One Eno as Self
- 1993 · Words for the Dying as Himself
- 1989 · Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes as
- 1986 · The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July as
- 1984 · Oblique Strategist Too as Himself
- 1979 · Question Time as Self - Panellist
- 1978 · Roxette as Self (archive footage)
- 1973 · Eno as Self