Brian Eno
Born: 1948-05-15 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK
Known For: Sound
Biography
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle 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.
Filmography
2026
- Snow ... (Music)
2025
- Together for Palestine as Self
2023
2022
- We Are As Gods as Self
- Wood and Water ... (Music)
- Ithaka ... (Music)
- CAN and Me as Self
- Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2021
- The Year of the Everlasting Storm ... (Original Music Composer)
2019
- Top Boy ... (Original Music Composer)
- The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage! ... (Original Music Composer)
- 2025: The Long Hot Winter as Radio presenter
2018
- Rams ... (Music)
- Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams as Self
- By This River ... (Music)
2017
- Hi Stranger ... (Music)
- 492: A Man Called Death ... (Music)
2016
- Soundbreaking as Self
- Late Anthropocene ... (Music)
2015
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ... (Original Music Composer)
- Slowdive: Souvlaki as Himself (Archival Footage)
- 100 Years - Armenian Genocide ... (Music)
2014
- We Are Many as Self
- What Difference Does It Make? as Self
2013
- David Bowie: Five Years as Self
- The Lost World ... (Music)
2012
- Laylou ... (Music)
2011
- Top Boy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ride, Rise, Roar as Self
- U2: From the Sky Down as Self
- The British Guide to Showing Off
- Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth
2010
- Brian Eno: Another Green World as Self
- U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle as Self
2009
- The Lovely Bones ... (Original Music Composer)
- Linear ... (Original Music Composer)
- Roxy Music: More Than This - The Story of Roxy Music as Self
2007
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man as Self
2006
- The Pervert's Guide to Cinema ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mein Freund, der Mörder ... (Music)
2005
- The Colbert Report
- The Jacket ... (Original Music Composer)
- 14 Video Paintings ... (Music)
2004
- Clean ... (Original Music Composer)
- Roxy Music: Inside 1972-1974 as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Fear X ... (Original Music Composer)
- Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- David Bowie - Sound and Vision as Self
2002
- Timeshift as self
- 1 Giant Leap as Self
2001
- 2001 and Beyond ... (Music)
- Shadowman ... (Music)
- Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story
- In the Ocean
- Roxy Music Musikladen 1973 as Self - keyboards
- Mon Paradis - Der Winterpalast ... (Music)
2000
- Click as Self
- The Million Dollar Hotel ... (Music)
- Buddy Boy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven as Self
1999
- Music for Airports ... (Music)
- Simon, the Magician ... (Original Music Composer)
- Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree as Self
1997
- Classic Albums as Self
- How Buildings Learn ... (Music)
1996
- Neverwhere ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- Ghost in the Shell ... (Songs)
- Father Ted as Father Brian Eno
- The Pillow Book ... (Original Music Composer)
- David Bowie: The Making of "1.Outside" as Self
- Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia as Self
1994
- Glitterbug ... (Music)
1993
- Mr. Wroe's Virgins ... (Music)
- One Eno as Self
- Words for the Dying as Himself
1989
- For All Mankind ... (Music)
- Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes
1986
1985
- The Creation of the Universe ... (Sound)
1984
- Miami Vice ... (Songs)
- Dune ... (Original Music Composer)
- Frevel ... (Original Music Composer)
- Thursday Afternoon ... (Director)
- Soldiers in Hiding ... (Music)
- Oblique Strategist Too as Himself
- How the Frog’s Eye Sees ... (Music Consultant)
1983
- The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? ... (Additional Music)
- Hans, Life Before Death ... (Music)
1982
- Riverside as Self
- Kold ensomhet ... (Music)
- The Falls ... (Additional Music)
- Remembrance ... (Music)
- This Woman Is Not a Car ... (Music)
1981
- Candy Store ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mea Culpa ... (Music)
- America Is Waiting ... (Music)
- Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan ... (Director)
- Transcending Mirror Boundaries ... (Music)
1980
- Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment ... (Music)
1979
- Question Time as Self - Panellist
1978
- Brutal Ardour ... (Music)
- Jubilee ... (Original Music Composer)
- Roxette as Self (archive footage)
- Short Letter to the Long Goodbye ... (Music)
1977
- Alternative 3 ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Machine-Men ... (Music)
1976
- Sebastiane ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Devil's Men ... (Original Music Composer)
- Resistance as Self
1973
- Eno as Self
1970
- Berlin Horse ... (Music)
1967
- Omnibus as Self