Brian Eno
Born: 1948-05-15 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK
Known For: Sound
Biography
Brian 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
2024
2023
2022
- Ithaka ... (Music)
- We Are As Gods as Self
- Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- Wood and Water ... (Music)
- CAN and Me as Self
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
- Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams as Self
- Rams ... (Music)
- By This River ... (Music)
2017
- 492: A Man Called Death ... (Music)
- Hi Stranger ... (Music)
2016
- 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
- What Difference Does It Make? as Self
- We Are Many as Self
2013
- David Bowie: Five Years as Self
- The Lost World ... (Music)
2012
- Laylou ... (Music)
2011
2010
- U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle as Self
- Brian Eno: Another Green World 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)
- David Bowie - Sound and Vision as Self
2002
- Timeshift as self
- 1 Giant Leap as Self
2001
- 2001 and Beyond ... (Music)
- In the Ocean
- Roxy Music Musikladen 1973 as Self - keyboards
- Mon Paradis - Der Winterpalast ... (Music)
- Shadowman ... (Music)
- Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story
2000
- Buddy Boy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Click as Self
- The Million Dollar Hotel ... (Music)
- Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven as Self
1999
- Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree as Self
- Music for Airports ... (Music)
- Simon, the Magician ... (Original Music Composer)
1997
- Classic Albums as Self
- How Buildings Learn ... (Music)
1996
- Neverwhere ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- Father Ted as Father Brian Eno
- The Pillow Book ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia as Self
- The Making of the 'Outside' Album as Self
1994
- Glitterbug ... (Music)
1993
- Mr. Wroe's Virgins ... (Music)
- Words for the Dying as Himself
- One Eno as Self
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)
- Soldiers in Hiding ... (Music)
- Thursday Afternoon ... (Director)
- How the Frog’s Eye Sees ... (Music Consultant)
- Oblique Strategist Too as Himself
1983
- The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? ... (Additional Music)
- Hans, Life Before Death ... (Music)
1982
- Remembrance ... (Music)
- Riverside as Self
- This Woman Is Not a Car ... (Music)
- Kold ensomhet ... (Music)
1981
- Transcending Mirror Boundaries ... (Music)
- Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan ... (Director)
- America Is Waiting ... (Music)
- Mea Culpa ... (Music)
1980
- The Falls ... (Additional Music)
- Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment ... (Music)
1979
- Question Time as Self - Panellist
1978
- Jubilee ... (Original Music Composer)
- Short Letter to the Long Goodbye ... (Music)
- Roxette as Self (archive footage)
- Brutal Ardour ... (Music)
1977
- Alternative 3 ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Machine-Men ... (Music)
1976
- Sebastiane ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Devil's Men ... (Original Music Composer)
- Resistance ... (Music)
1973
- Eno as Self
1970
- Berlin Horse ... (Music)
1967
- Omnibus as Self