Brian Eno
Brian Eno, born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1948, has been an ambient pioneer, a glam rocker, a hit producer, a multimedia artist, a technological innovator, a worldbeat proponent and a self-described non-musician, and much more besides. He came to notice with Roxy Music in the early 1970s, made a run of art-pop solo albums, then with Discreet Music (1975) and Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) gave a name and a method to music designed to be ignored as easily as heard. As a producer he shaped David Bowie's Berlin albums, Talking Heads, U2 and Coldplay; with the painter Peter Schmidt he devised the Oblique Strategies cards; and his generative installations and light works have extended the same idea of systems that make music by themselves into galleries and apps.
Brian Eno, born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1948, has been an ambient pioneer, a glam rocker, a hit producer, a multimedia artist, a technological innovator, a worldbeat proponent and a self-described non-musician, and much more besides. He came to notice with Roxy Music in the early 1970s, made a run of art-pop solo albums, then with Discreet Music (1975) and Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) gave a name and a method to music designed to be ignored as easily as heard. As a producer he shaped David Bowie's Berlin albums, Talking Heads, U2 and Coldplay; with the painter Peter Schmidt he devised the Oblique Strategies cards; and his generative installations and light works have extended the same idea of systems that make music by themselves into galleries and apps.
