In school, he used a tape recorder as musical instrument, and experimented with his first, sometimes improvisational, bands. Joseph's College, Birkfield, Ipswich, ] and at Ipswich Art School in Roy Ascott's Groundcourse, and the Winchester School of Art, graduating in 1969. Recently, he wrote a chapter to "Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture" (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. As producer and songwriter, his credits include " Remain in Light" (1980), by Talking Heads, and " The Joshua Tree" (1987), by U2, and work with James, Slowdive, Paul Simon, and " Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends" (2008), by Coldplay.Īs an artist, Brian Eno pursues ventures in parallel to his music career art installations, a newspaper column in the " The Observer", and " Oblique Strategies", with Peter Schmidt, a deck of cards wherein each card has a cryptic remark, random insight meant to resolve a dilemma. He also is notable for introducing the concepts of chance music to pop and rock and roll. In the late 1970s, he collaborated with pop music artists, as with David Bowie in the avant-garde " Berlin Trilogy" popularised the band Devo and the punk rock-influenced " No Wave" genre. He has worked with Harold Budd, Cluster, John Cale, David Byrne, and Robert Fripp.
Upon leaving them, he recorded four original Rock music albums, before concentrating upon abstract sound landscapes (ambient music) in records such as " Discreet Music" (1975) and " Ambient 1/Music for Airports" (1978). URL = ] (born ), commonly known as Brian Eno ( pronEng|ˈiːnoʊ), is an English musician, producer, music theorist, and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the "Father of Ambient Music".Īrt-school-educated, and inspired by minimalism, he became artistically prominent as the keyboards and synthesizer player of the 1970s Glam rock and Art rock band Roxy Music. Genre = Experimental rock, art rock, glam rock, electronic, ambient, progressive rock Instrument = Synthesizer, keyboards, vocals, guitar
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