This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. This was followed by short stints in multiple avant-garde and college groups, including The Maxwell Demon and Dandelion and The War Damage which featured Eno as frontman who adapted a theatrical persona on stage and later played the guitar.

In late 1967, Eno pursued music once more, forming the Merchant Taylor's Simultaneous Cabinet, an avant-garde music, art, and performance trio with two Winchester undergraduates. Whilst at school, Eno used a tape recorder as a musical instrument and in 1964 he joined his first group, the Black Aces, a four-piece with Eno on drums that he formed with three friends he met at the youth club he visited in Melton. At Winchester Eno once attended a lecture by future Who guitarist Pete Townshend, also a former student of Ascott's he cites this as the moment when he realised he could make music without formal training. In 1966, Eno studied for a diploma in Fine Arts at the Winchester School of Art, from which he graduated in 1969. Phillips recalled the pair doing 'piano tennis' in which, after collecting pianos, the two stripped and aligned them in a hall and struck them with tennis balls. Here, one of Eno's teachers was artist Tom Phillips, who became a lifelong friend and encouraged his musical ability. He enrolled at the Ipswich School of Art, taking on the newly established Groundcourse foundation art degree established by new media artist Roy Ascott. In 1964, after earning four O-levels, including one in art and maths, Eno had developed an interest in art and music and had no interest in a 'conventional job'. His confirmation name is derived from the school, taking the name Brian Peter George St. In 1959, Eno attended St Joseph's College in Ipswich, a Catholic grammar school of the De La Salle Brothers order. The surname Eno is derived from the French Huguenot surname Hennot. They have a half-sister, Rita, from their mother's previous relationship. Eno is the eldest of their three children he has a brother, Roger, and sister Arlette.

2.10.5 Montefiore Hospital Installationsīrian Peter George Eno was born on in the village of Melton, Suffolk, the son of William Arnold Eno (1916–1988), a postal worker and clock and watch repairer, and Maria Alphonsine Eno ( née Buslot 1922–2005), a Belgian national.In 2019, Eno was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music. An advocate of a range of humanitarian causes, Eno writes on a variety of subjects and is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation. From the 1970s onwards, Eno's installations have included the sails of the Sydney Opera House in 2009 and the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in 2016. In the mid-1970s, he co-developed Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards featuring aphorisms intended to spur creative thinking. In subsequent decades, Eno continued to record solo albums and produce for other artists, most prominently U2 and Coldplay, alongside work with artists such as Daniel Lanois, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, Slowdive, Karl Hyde, James, Kevin Shields, and Damon Albarn.ĭating back to his time as a student, Eno has also worked in other media, including sound installations, film, and writing. He also established himself as a sought-after producer, working on albums by John Cale, Jon Hassell, Laraaji, Talking Heads, Ultravox, and Devo, as well as the no wave compilation No New York (1978). Eno then released a number of solo pop albums beginning with Here Come the Warm Jets (1974) and, also in the mid-1970s, began exploring a minimalist direction on influential recordings such as Discreet Music (1975) and Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978), coining the term 'ambient music' with the latter.Īlongside his solo work, Eno collaborated frequently with other musicians in the 1970s, including Robert Fripp, Harmonia, Cluster, Harold Budd, David Bowie, David Byrne and Judy Nylon. He joined glam rock group Roxy Music as its synthesiser player in 1971, recording two albums with the group before departing in 1973.

īorn 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 has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures. A self-described 'non-musician', Eno has helped introduce unconventional conceptual and recording approaches to contemporary music. Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno RDI ( / ˈ iː n oʊ/ born Brian Peter George Eno, ) is a British musician, composer, record producer and visual artist best known for his contributions to ambient music and work in rock, pop and electronica.

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