Brian Eno

Also known as Eno, Brian Peter George Eno, Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno

British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)

OverviewAI-generated

Brian Eno is a British male artist and author who began his professional career in 1970. Born on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom, he is associated with the genres of ambient, art pop, art rock, and drone music. He has also used the pseudonym "Eno." His musical style is further described by tags including experimental, electronic, alternative, and electronica.

Eno has authored several works, including *Kleines Wörterbuch der Tonkunst*, *Brian Eno*, *Jeff Koons*, *Ambient 4*, and *Eno, place no.13*. He is recognized in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame collection. His writings include observations on cultural value and the nature of artistic work, such as the statement that "Ideas worth questioning: 'Being an artist is a job for life.'"

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 15 mei 1948, Woodbridge (Suffolk) UK
Works: 11

Top works

open letter to the judges of https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/10/07/brian-enos-yanis-varoufakis-open-letter-to-the-judges-of-the-icc-on-the-anniversary-of-7th-october-act-now-or-international-law-withers-forever/
Kleines Wörterbuch der Tonkunst
Brian Eno
Jeff Koons
Ambient 4

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1948-05-15

ambientart popart rockbritishdroneelectronic

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,798,157
Total plays: 71,048,954

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,949x
A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
· 1991 · cited 26,527x
Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,412x
Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,983x
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
· 1977 · cited 18,352x

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Quotes

“I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins Like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.”
“When you see people like Ken Loach, David Miller, Jackie Walker, when you see those people being accused of antisemitism, you cannot help but say this is all made up.”
“Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.”
“If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result.”
“Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."”
“The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.”

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to Brian Eno, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

801 live/Phil Manzanera, Eno, Bill MacCormick... [et al.]

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Encyclopedic overview

Brian Eno (/ˈiːnoʊ/ EE-noh; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, sound designer, author and political activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unconventional concepts and approaches to contemporary music. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures. In 2019, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music.

Born in Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at the art school of Ipswich Civic College in the mid-1960s, and then at Winchester School of Art. He joined the glam rock group Roxy Music as its synthesiser player in 1971 and recorded two albums with them before departing in 1973. He released his first solo album, the rock-oriented Here Come the Warm Jets (1974), and explored minimal music on the influential recordings Discreet Music (1975) and Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978), with the latter coining the term "ambient music".

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