Brian EnoBrian Peter George St. Jean le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, usually shortened to Brian Eno, (born May 15, 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), is an electronic musician, producer, and music theorist. He was educated at Ipswich Art School, where he developed an interest in using tape recorders as musical instruments, but transferred to the Winchester School of Art, where he experimented with his first (sometimes improvisational) bands. After graduating in 1969, he moved to London where eventually he started his professional musical career playing keyboards with the band Roxy Music from 1971 to '73. Between 1973 and 1978 he created four influential solo-albums that followed somewhat in the genre of Roxy Music, in their having recognisable tunes and lyrics -- Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World and Before and After Science. He also played with Phil Manzanera in the band 801. He continued his career by producing a larger number of highly eclectic and increasingly ambient electronic and acoustic albums. He is widely cited as coining the term "ambient music" in his Ambient series (Music for Airports, The Plateaux of Mirror, Day of Radiance and On Land). 1977Eno describes himself primarily as a "non-musician" and is indeed best known for "treating" instruments rather than playing them himself. His skill at using "The Studio as a Compositional Tool" (the title of an essay by Eno) led in part to his career as a producer. His methods were recognized at the time (mid-70s) as being unique, so much so that on one album he contributed to (Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) he is credited with "Enossification." He collaborated with David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which was one of the first albums not associated with hip hop to extensively feature sampling. Eno collaborated with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie's influential "Berlin trilogy" of albums, Low, Heroes and Lodger, on Bowie's later album 1. Outside, and on the song "I'm Afraid of Americans". Eno has also collaborated with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, John Cale, former member of Velvet Underground, on his trilogy Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy, Robert Wyatt on his Shleep CD, with Jon Hassell, with the German duo Cluster, with composer Harold Budd and others. In 1975, Eno released Discreet Music. The second side consisted of several versions of Pachelbel's canon to which various algorithmic transformations have been applied, rendering it almost unrecognisable. Side 1 consisted of a tape loop system for generating music from relative sparse input. These tapes were later used as backgrounds in some of his collaborations with Robert Fripp, and the methodology (not entirely original with Eno) was used by Fripp (on his Frippertronics albums) and others. Eno has acted as a producer for a number of bands, including Talking Heads, U2, Devo, and James. He has contributed to albums by artists as varied as Nico, Robert Calvert, Genesis, Edikanfo, and Zvuki Mu. He won the best producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT awards. He is an innovator across many fields of music and recently he has collaborated on the development of the Koan algorithmic music generator. Eno started the Obscure label in Britain in the early 70s to release works by less-known composers. Only 10 albums were released. Works released included early albums by John Adams, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars (the famous The Sinking of the Titanic), John Cage, and others. At this time he was also active in the Fluxus movement and his work with the Portsmouth Sinfonia came out of this. In 1996 Brian Eno, and others, started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public into thinking about the very long term future of society. Brian Eno is also a columnist for the British newspaper, The Observer. Eno has also been active in other artistic genres, producing videos for gallery display and collaborating with visual artists in other endeavors. One is the set of "Oblique Strategies" cards that he produced in the mid-70s, which was described as "100 Worthwhile Dilemmas" and intended as guides to shaking up the mind in the process of producing artistic endeavors. Another was his collaboration with artist Russell Mills on the book More Dark Than Shark. He was also the provider of music for Robert Sheckley's In the Land of Clear Colours, a narrated story with music originally published by a small art gallery in Spain. His younger brother, Roger Eno is also a musician, who combines ambient styles with classical music instruments on some of his albums. The band A Certain Ratio took their name from the lyrics of Eno's song "The True Wheel" (on Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)). British 1990s band The Warm Jets were named after Eno's 1973 album. Brian Eno is also responsible for the start-up sound to the Windows 95 operating system (which he created on his Apple Macintosh). From an interview of his interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:
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From an interview of his interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:. The production was done by The Trackmasters and grammy winner Rich Harrison. Brian Eno is also responsible for the start-up sound to the Windows 95 operating system (which he created on his Apple Macintosh). With her first album, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, she experienced some help by noted songwriters Makeba and Andre Deyo. British 1990s band The Warm Jets were named after Eno's 1973 album. With this song Frankee reached the Number One position in the UK singles charts in May 2004, also the Australian ARIAnet singles chart in June 2004. The band A Certain Ratio took their name from the lyrics of Eno's song "The True Wheel" (on Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)). The song uses the same musical arrangement as Eamon's "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)" and is an answer single to his profanities. His younger brother, Roger Eno is also a musician, who combines ambient styles with classical music instruments on some of his albums. (Fuck U Right Back)". He was also the provider of music for Robert Sheckley's In the Land of Clear Colours, a narrated story with music originally published by a small art gallery in Spain. In 2004 she recorded the song "F.U.R.B. Another was his collaboration with artist Russell Mills on the book More Dark Than Shark. She claims to be an ex-girlfriend of singer Eamon. One is the set of "Oblique Strategies" cards that he produced in the mid-70s, which was described as "100 Worthwhile Dilemmas" and intended as guides to shaking up the mind in the process of producing artistic endeavors. Frankee is an American R&B singer. Eno has also been active in other artistic genres, producing videos for gallery display and collaborating with visual artists in other endeavors. In 1996 Brian Eno, and others, started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public into thinking about the very long term future of society. Brian Eno is also a columnist for the British newspaper, The Observer. At this time he was also active in the Fluxus movement and his work with the Portsmouth Sinfonia came out of this. Works released included early albums by John Adams, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars (the famous The Sinking of the Titanic), John Cage, and others. Only 10 albums were released. Eno started the Obscure label in Britain in the early 70s to release works by less-known composers. He is an innovator across many fields of music and recently he has collaborated on the development of the Koan algorithmic music generator. He won the best producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT awards. He has contributed to albums by artists as varied as Nico, Robert Calvert, Genesis, Edikanfo, and Zvuki Mu. Eno has acted as a producer for a number of bands, including Talking Heads, U2, Devo, and James. These tapes were later used as backgrounds in some of his collaborations with Robert Fripp, and the methodology (not entirely original with Eno) was used by Fripp (on his Frippertronics albums) and others. Side 1 consisted of a tape loop system for generating music from relative sparse input. The second side consisted of several versions of Pachelbel's canon to which various algorithmic transformations have been applied, rendering it almost unrecognisable. In 1975, Eno released Discreet Music. Eno has also collaborated with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, John Cale, former member of Velvet Underground, on his trilogy Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy, Robert Wyatt on his Shleep CD, with Jon Hassell, with the German duo Cluster, with composer Harold Budd and others. Outside, and on the song "I'm Afraid of Americans". Eno collaborated with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie's influential "Berlin trilogy" of albums, Low, Heroes and Lodger, on Bowie's later album 1. He collaborated with David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which was one of the first albums not associated with hip hop to extensively feature sampling. His methods were recognized at the time (mid-70s) as being unique, so much so that on one album he contributed to (Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) he is credited with "Enossification.". His skill at using "The Studio as a Compositional Tool" (the title of an essay by Eno) led in part to his career as a producer. Eno describes himself primarily as a "non-musician" and is indeed best known for "treating" instruments rather than playing them himself. He is widely cited as coining the term "ambient music" in his Ambient series (Music for Airports, The Plateaux of Mirror, Day of Radiance and On Land). He continued his career by producing a larger number of highly eclectic and increasingly ambient electronic and acoustic albums. He also played with Phil Manzanera in the band 801. Between 1973 and 1978 he created four influential solo-albums that followed somewhat in the genre of Roxy Music, in their having recognisable tunes and lyrics -- Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World and Before and After Science. After graduating in 1969, he moved to London where eventually he started his professional musical career playing keyboards with the band Roxy Music from 1971 to '73. He was educated at Ipswich Art School, where he developed an interest in using tape recorders as musical instruments, but transferred to the Winchester School of Art, where he experimented with his first (sometimes improvisational) bands. Jean le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, usually shortened to Brian Eno, (born May 15, 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), is an electronic musician, producer, and music theorist. Brian Peter George St. 2004 The Equatorial Stars (with Robert Fripp). 2004 Curiosities Volume 1. 2003 January 07003 | Bell Studies for The Clock of The Long Now. 2003 Compact Forest Proposal. 2003 Music for Civic Recovery Centre. 2002 Kite Stories. 2002 I Dormienti. 2002 Lightness. 2001 Drawn From Life (with Peter Schwalm). 1997 The Drop. 1995 Spinner (with Jah Wobble). 1993 Neroli. 1992 Nerve Net. 1990 Wrong Way Up (with John Cale). 1990 The Shutov Assembly. 1989 Textures. 1985 Begegnungen II (with Roedelius and Dieter Moebius aka Cluster). 1985 Hybrid (with Daniel Lanois and Michael Brook). 1985 Thursday Afternoon (soundtrack to an art gallery video). 1984 The Pearl (with Harold Budd). 1984 Begegnungen (with Roedelius and Dieter Moebius aka Cluster). 1983 Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. 1982 Ambient #4 / On Land. 1981 My Life In The Bush of Ghosts (with David Byrne). 1980 Ambient #3 / Day of Radiance (by Laraaji with Eno producing). 1: Possible Musics (with Jon Hassell). 1980 Fourth World, Vol. 1980 Ambient #2 / The Plateaux of Mirror (with Harold Budd). 1978 After the Heat (with Roedelius and Dieter Moebius aka Cluster). 1978 Music for Films. 1978 Ambient #1 / Music for Airports. 1978 Before and After Science. 1977 Cluster & Eno (with Cluster). 1975 Discreet Music. 1975 Another Green World. 1975 Evening Star (with Robert Fripp). 1974 Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). 1973 Here Come The Warm Jets. 1973 Portsmouth Sinfonia Plays the Popular Classics (with the Portsmouth Sinfonia). 1973 No Pussyfooting (with Robert Fripp). |