Brian Eno
Sound • Born 1948-05-15
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
48 credits
Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens
Movie • 2023
Self
Brian Eno: Another Green World
Movie • 2010
Self
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
Movie • 1986
Roxette
Movie • 1978
Self (archive footage)
Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes
Movie • 1989
Ride, Rise, Roar
Movie • 2011
Self
Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven
Movie • 2000
Self
What Difference Does It Make?
Movie • 2014
Self
Oblique Strategist Too
Movie • 1984
Himself
Eno
Movie • 1973
Self
U2: From the Sky Down
Movie • 2011
Self
CAN and Me
Movie • 2022
Self
Roxy Music: Inside 1972-1974
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
The British Guide to Showing Off
Movie • 2011
We Are Many
Movie • 2014
Self
Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story
Movie • 2001
Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree
Movie • 1999
Self
David Bowie: Five Years
Movie • 2013
Self
One Eno
Movie • 1993
Self
Daedalus
Movie • 2024
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth
Movie • 2011
Roxy Music: More Than This - The Story of Roxy Music
Movie • 2009
Self
Words for the Dying
Movie • 1993
Himself
U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle
Movie • 2010
Self
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams
Movie • 2018
Self
In the Ocean
Movie • 2001
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Movie • 2007
Self
Roxy Music Musikladen 1973
Movie • 2001
Self - keyboards
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
Movie • 2003
Self
Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia
Movie • 1995
Self
2025: The Long Hot Winter
Movie • 2019
Radio presenter
We Are As Gods
Movie • 2022
Self
1 Giant Leap
Movie • 2002
Self
David Bowie: The Making of "1.Outside"
Movie • 1995
Self
Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All: A Visual History 1972-1982
Movie • 2008
self
Slowdive: Souvlaki
Movie • 2015
Himself (Archival Footage)
DEVO
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Together for Palestine
Movie • 2025
Self
Article 12
Movie
Father Ted
TV • 1995
Father Brian Eno
Question Time
TV • 1979
Self - Panellist
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Classic Albums
TV • 1997
Self
Timeshift
TV • 2002
self
Click
TV • 2000
Self
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
Riverside
TV • 1982
Self