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Brian Eno is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, sound designer, author and political activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unconventional concepts and approaches to contemporary music.…
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Born 15 May 1948 · Q569003
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One afternoon while I was working in the studio with Talking Heads, the roadie from Foreigner, working in an adjacent studio, came in and asked whether anyone wanted to buy some video equipment. I'd never really thought much about video, and found most 'video art' completely unmemorable, but the prospect of actually owning a video camera was, at that time, quite exotic.
Awarded Royal Designer for Industry (2012).
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“One afternoon while I was working in the studio with Talking Heads, the roadie from Foreigner, working in an adjacent studio, came in and asked whether anyone wanted to buy some video equipment. I'd never really thought much about video, and found most 'video art' completely unmemorable, but the prospect of actually owning a video camera was, at that time, quite exotic.”
The Guardian: Thom Yorke, Romy and Brian Eno among 200 musicians urging PM to reject new North Sea drilling
Published video “Fractal Zoom”.
Published video “Spinning Away”.
Published video “Everything That Happens”.
Published video “Brian Eno | Station”.
Far Out Magazine: The 1977 album Brian Eno never gets tired of: “So concise”
Published video “Energy Fools the Magician”.
Public attention spiked: 8,303 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 2,119, with 9 article edits. Editors noted: Political activism ce
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Published video “Afterlife with @BeatieWolfe out now.”.
Published video “Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe - Afterlife (Audio)”.
Published video “Afterlife”.
Published video “Afterlife with @BeatieWolfe out everywhere this Friday, June 12.”.
The Guardian: Greta Thunberg, Sally Rooney and Brian Eno defy Palestine Action ban in letter to judges
Published video “From the Beginning (From "Opera")”.
Published video “Today is World Sleep Day #worldsleepday”.
Published video “Tomorrow? #wsd”.
Released album “2 Slow Stories”.
The Guardian: Brian Eno urges support to get Together for Palestine song to Christmas No 1
The Guardian: Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Nadine Shah and Brian Eno join Christmas No 1 race with Palestine charity single
Published video “BTS of Luminal, Lateral and Liminal with @BeatieWolfe @VerveRecords”.
Published video “Procession from album Liminal with @BeatieWolfe”.
Published video “Procession with @BeatieWolfe @VerveRecords”.
Published video “Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe - Procession”.
Released album “Liminal”.
Published video “Procession”.
Published video “Before Life”.
Published video “The Last To Know”.
Published video “Little Boy”.
The Guardian: Why I’m hosting a concert for Palestine at Wembley Arena | Brian Eno
The Guardian: Lineup announced for Palestine benefit concert at Wembley Arena, helmed by Brian Eno
Released album “Lateral”.
Released album “Luminal”.
Rolling Stone: Brian Eno Releases Surprise New Apple Music-Only Album ‘Aurum’
Released album “Aurum”.
The Guardian: ‘I don’t like being revered’: Brian Eno on art, AI, and why he hates talking about David Bowie
The Microsoft Sound was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"
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American Songwriter: 4 of Brian Eno’s Favorite Albums Ever That Every Music Nerd Should Hear
Artnet: Brian Eno Distills Decades of Theorizing About Art Into a Very Special New Book
The Guardian: Eno review – exhilarating Brian Eno documentary that’s different at every screening
Released album “Sushi. Roti. Reibekuchen”.
Released album “Eno: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
Released ep “Surbahar Sleeping Music”.
Released ep “I dormienti”.
Released ep “Chamber Lightness”.
Released ep “The Ship EP”.
Released album “Top Boy – Score From the Original Series”.
Released ep “Flower Bells”.
Released ep “77 Million Paintings”.
Released ep “Five Light Paintings”.
Released ep “The Ritan Bells”.
Released ep “Kazakhstan”.
Released album “Secret Life”.
Released album “Discreet Music / Music for Airports / Thursday Afternoon”.
Released ep “Making Gardens Out of Silence in the Uncanny Valley”.
Released ep “Small Craft”.
Released album “FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE”.
Eno co-founded EarthPercent, a charity that works with the music industry to raise funds for climate causes
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Released ep “Film Music: Crime Pays”.
Released album “Film Music 1976–2020”.
Released album “Rams – Original Soundtrack Album”.
Released ep “Luminous”.
Released album “Mixing Colours”.
Released album “Dokument #2”.
Eno participated in DAU, an immersive art and cultural installation in Paris by Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovsky evoking life under Soviet authoritarian rule
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Was awarded Starmus Festival's Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication for Music & Arts
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Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music
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Released album “Music for Installations”.
Ultimate Classic Rock: Brian Eno Announces ‘Music for Installations’ Box Set
Released album “Finding Shore”.
Released album “Sisters”.
Released album “Reflection”.
Eno signed an open letter as a member of the Labour Party and has stated that voting for the Liberal Democrats is "voting Tory without admitting it"
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Released album “The Ship”.
Eno was added to Edinburgh University's roll of honour and in 2017, he delivered the Andrew Carnegie Lecture at the university
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That included lenticular paintings by Eno), light boxes have been shown across the world
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Released album “High Life”.
Released album “Someday World”.
As part of an expanded re-release of Nerve Net
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Eno created two permanent light and sound installations at Montefiore Hospital in Hove, East Sussex, England
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Eno sold limited edition prints of artwork from his 2012 album Lux from his website
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Released album “LUX”.
Awarded Royal Designer for Industry (2012).
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Released ep “Panic of Looking”.
Released album “Drums Between the Bells”.
Belgian academics from the Royal Museum for Central Africa named a species of Afrotropical spider Pseudocorinna brianeno in his honour
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Released album “Sound Strategies”.
Eno and Coldplay reunited and Eno contributed "enoxification" and additional composition on Coldplay's fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto, released on 24 October
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Joined Stephen Deazley and Edinburgh University music lecturer Martin Parker in an Icebreaker concert at Glasgow City Halls, heralded as a "long-awaited clash"
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Released album “Small Craft on a Milk Sea”.
Released album “Making Space”.
Chilvers and Sandra O'Neill also created an App titled Air (released through generativemusic
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And the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in 2016
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Released album “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today”.
Worked with Grace Jones on her album Hurricane, and was credited for "production consultation" and as a member of the band, playing keyboards, treatments and background vocals
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Released Everything That Happens Will Happen Today with David Byrne, designed the sound for the video game Spore and wrote a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, edited by Paul D
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Eno produced the fourth studio album by Coldplay, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, released in 2008 to acclaim
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Eno joined the Liberal Democrats as youth adviser under Nick Clegg
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Released album “77 Million”.
Released album “Another Day on Earth”.
Released album “More Music for Films”.
Released album “14 Video Paintings”.
Fripp and Eno recorded another ambient music collaboration album, The Equatorial Stars
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Released album “Curiosities, Volume II”.
Released album “Curiosities, Volume I”.
Released album “January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now”.
Released album “Drawn From Life”.
Released ep “Compact Forest Proposal”.
Visitors often spent considerable time in this dreamlike space
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Released album “Music for Prague”.
Released album “Music for 陰陽師”.
Released album “Music for Civic Recovery Centre”.
Released ep “Kite Stories”.
That featured sculptures of sleeping figures by Mimmo Paladino in the middle of the circular room, Eno placed speakers in each of the 12 tunnels running from it
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Released album “Sonora”.
Released album “I dormienti”.
Released ep “A Year”.
Released album “The Drop”.
Released album “Contra 1.2”.
Released album ““Lightness”: Music for the Marble Palace”.
Released album “Music for White Cube: London, 1997”.
Released album “Generative Music I”.
Eno collaborated in developing the SSEYO Koan generative music software system (by Pete Cole and Tim Cole of Intermorphic) that he used in composing Generative Music 1—only playable on the Koan generative music system
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Eno scored the six-part fantasy television series Neverwhere
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Eno and others started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public about the very long-term future of society and to encourage long-term thinking in the exploration of enduring solutions to global issues
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Released album “Spinner”.
Eno travelled with Edinburgh University's Professor Nigel Osborne to Bosnia in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, to work with war-traumatised children, many of whom had been orphaned in the conflict
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Began working with the company Intermorphic to create generative music through utilising programmed algorithms
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Eno provided one of several remixes of "Protection" by Massive Attack (originally from their Protection album) for release as a single
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U2 and Eno joined forces to create the album Original Soundtracks 1 under the group name Passengers, songs from which included "Your Blue Room" and "Miss Sarajevo"
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Awarded Frankfurter Musikpreis (1994).
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Released album “Headcandy”.
The Microsoft designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Eno to compose music for Windows 95
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Released album “I: Instrumental”.
Released album “II: Vocal”.
Released album “Neroli”.
Eno worked with the Manchester rock band James to produce two albums, Laid and Wah Wah
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Released album “The Shutov Assembly”.
Released album “Ali Click”.
Released album “Nerve Net”.
Released album “My Squelchy Life”.
Eno appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs
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Released album “Wrong Way Up”.
Released album “Textures”.
Eno married his then-manager Anthea Norman-Taylor
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Released album “More Blank Than Frank”.
Released album “Desert Island Selection”.
Released album “Begegnungen II”.
Released album “Thursday Afternoon”.
Released album “Hybrid”.
Released album “Old Land”.
Released album “The Pearl”.
Released album “Begegnungen”.
(amongst others) composed and performed the "Prophecy Theme" for the David Lynch film Dune; the rest of the soundtrack was composed and performed by the group Toto
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Released album “Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks”.
Eno collaborated with his brother, Roger, and accomplice and friend Daniel Lanois, on what would be Brian Eno's ninth full-length album Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
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Released album “Music for Films, Volume 2”.
Released ep “Rarities”.
Released album “Ambient 4: On Land”.
Released album “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”.
Released album “Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics”.
Released album “Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror”.
To 1981, during which time Eno travelled to Ghana for a festival of West African music, he was collaborating with David Byrne of Talking Heads
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Released album “In a Land of Clear Colours”.
Released album “Music for Films”.
Eno discovered and promoted the no wave movement by attending a five night underground no wave music festival at Artists Space in New York City that featured ten local bands, including the Gynecologists, Communists, Theo
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Released album “After the Heat”.
As the first of his Ambient series, Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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Released album “Ambient 1: Music for Airports”.
Released album “Before and After Science”.
Released album “Cluster & Eno”.
Eno assisted David Bowie and Tony Visconti for Bowie's album Low
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Released album “Discreet Music”.
Released album “Another Green World”.
To release works by lesser-known composers
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Eno released the minimalist-electronic record Discreet Music (1975), created with an elaborate tape-delay methodology which he diagrammed on the back cover of the LP
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Released album “Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)”.
Released album “June 1, 1974”.
Released album “Here Come the Warm Jets”.
Eno was in demand as a record producer
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Released (No Pussyfooting), a collaboration with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp
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Eno co-formed the glam rock band Roxy Music following a chance meeting with saxophonist Andy Mackay
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And recorded two albums with them before departing in 1973
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After separating from his wife, Eno moved to London, where his professional music career began
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Eno studied for a diploma in Fine Arts at the Winchester School of Art, from which he graduated in 1969
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Joined his first group, the Black Aces, a four-piece with Eno on drums, that he formed with three friends he met at the youth club he visited in Melton
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Eno attended St Joseph's College, Ipswich, a Catholic grammar school of the De La Salle Brothers order
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Born 1948-05-15.
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