He’s a culturally significant musician who has released numerous albums and worked with a wide variety of artists, probably most notably David Byrne of Talking Heads.
For example David Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans” that he worked on with Trent Reznor originally started as a collaboration between Bowie and Eno. Reznor cleaned it up and made it radio friendly whereas Eno’s cut was highly experimental as he is wont to do.
“Ambient 1: Music for Airports” basically invented the genre of specifically-designed ambient music. Before that, it was all background noise and Muzak.
Roxy Music as well as creating a ton of soundtracks and being on the cutting edge of music tech for decades. He’s an incredibly interesting and influential artist.
Oh, and coining the term Ambient Music, and being an electronic music pioneer. …Nothing as historic as composing a chime sound for windows, once, however.
I know it’s relevant cause it’s about Microsoft but it’s still funny to see a headline refer to him as just “Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno”
It’s both hilarious and insulting. I love it.
What else is he known for?
Some of the best ambient music of our time.
He’s a culturally significant musician who has released numerous albums and worked with a wide variety of artists, probably most notably David Byrne of Talking Heads.
For example David Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans” that he worked on with Trent Reznor originally started as a collaboration between Bowie and Eno. Reznor cleaned it up and made it radio friendly whereas Eno’s cut was highly experimental as he is wont to do.
Brian Eno on “scenius”:
https://youtu.be/77mbz2HbY5Y
Boring. Windows chime was his peak imo
“Ambient 1: Music for Airports” basically invented the genre of specifically-designed ambient music. Before that, it was all background noise and Muzak.
Roxy Music as well as creating a ton of soundtracks and being on the cutting edge of music tech for decades. He’s an incredibly interesting and influential artist.
Music for Airports
Which to be clear is an album
Denouncing Microsoft.
Oh, and coining the term Ambient Music, and being an electronic music pioneer. …Nothing as historic as composing a chime sound for windows, once, however.
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