Brian Eno
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.
Known For
All Movies (43)
- Together for Palestine2025 · as Self
- Daedalus2024 · as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
- DEVO2024 · as Self (archive footage)
- Eno2024 · as Self
- Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens2023 · as Self
- CAN and Me2022 · as Self
- Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC2022 · as Self (archive footage)
- We Are As Gods2022 · as Self
- ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno2020
- 2025: The Long Hot Winter2019 · as Radio presenter
- Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams2018 · as Self
- Slowdive: Souvlaki2015 · as Himself (Archival Footage)
- We Are Many2014 · as Self
- What Difference Does It Make?2014 · as Self
- David Bowie: Five Years2013 · as Self
- The British Guide to Showing Off2011
- U2: From the Sky Down2011 · as Self
- Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth2011
- Ride, Rise, Roar2011 · as Self
- U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle2010 · as Self
- Brian Eno: Another Green World2010 · as Self
- Roxy Music: More Than This - The Story of Roxy Music2009 · as Self
- Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All: A Visual History 1972-19822008 · as self
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man2007 · as Self
- Roxy Music: Inside 1972-19742004 · as Self (archive footage)
- David Bowie - Sound and Vision2003 · as Self
- 1 Giant Leap2002 · as Self
- Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story2001
- In the Ocean2001
- Roxy Music Musikladen 19732001 · as Self - keyboards
- Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven2000 · as Self
- Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree1999 · as Self
- David Bowie: The Making of "1.Outside"1995 · as Self
- Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia1995 · as Self
- One Eno1993 · as Self
- Words for the Dying1993 · as Himself
- Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes1989
- The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July1986
- Oblique Strategist Too1984 · as Himself
- Roxette1978 · as Self (archive footage)
- Eno1973 · as Self
- Article 12—
- Little Red Robin Hood— · as Self
All TV Shows (9)
- Soundbreaking2016 · as Self
- The Colbert Report2005
- Timeshift2002 · as self
- Click2000 · as Self
- Classic Albums1997 · as Self
- Father Ted1995 · as Father Brian Eno
- Riverside1982 · as Self
- Question Time1979 · as Self - Panellist
- Omnibus1967 · as Self