Brian Eno, Esq's Biography

Brian Eno, Esq's Professional Career

Career

musician and prodr; visiting prof RCA 1995-; numerous lectures worldwide on matters of culture; memb Global Business Network; hon prof of new media Berlin Univ of Art; Hon DTech Univ of Plymouth; Music The Maxwell Demon 1969, The Scratch Orchestra 1970, The Portsmouth Sinfonia 1971-73, Roxy Music 1971-73; solo records: Here Come The Warm Jets 1974, Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy) 1974, Another Green World 1975, Discreet Music 1975, Before and After Science 1977, Music For Films 1978, Music for Airports 1978, On Land 1981, Thursday Afternoon 1984, Nerve Net 1992, The Shutov Assembly 1992, Neroli 1993, The Drop 1997, Another Day on Earth 2005; collaborations: No Pussyfooting (with Robert Fripp) 1972, Evening Star (with Robert Fripp) 1975, Possible Musics (with Jon Hassell) 1980, Low, Heroes and Lodger (all with David Bowie) 1978-80, The Plateaux of Mirror (with Harold Budd) 1980, My Life in The Bush of Ghosts (with David Byrne) 1980, Apollo (with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno) 1983, The Pearl (with Harold Budd) 1984, Wrong Way Up (with John Cale) 1990, Spinner (with Jan Wobble) 1995, Drawn from Life (with J Peter Schwalm) 2001, Equatorial Stars (with Robert Fripp) 2004, Beyond Even (with Robert Fripp) 2007, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (with David Byrne) 2008; selected prodns: Lucky Lief and the Longships (Bob Calvert) 1975, Are we not men? (Devo) 1978, More songs about buildings and food, Fear of Music and Remain in Light (all with Talking Heads) 1978-80, Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Zooropa, All That You Can't Leave Behind and No Line On The Horizon (all with U2) 1984-2009, Bright Red (Laurie Anderson) 1995, Outside (David Bowie) 1995, Surprise (Paul Simon) 2006, Viva la Vida (Coldplay) 2008; Visual over 70 exhibitions of video artworks in museums and galleries worldwide incl: La Forêt Museum (Tokyo) 1983, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) 1984, Venice Biennale 1986, Centre D'Art (Barcelona) 1992, Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid) 1993, Permanent Inst Swarovski (nr Innsbruck, Austria) 1995, Russian Museum (St Petersburg) 1997, Kunsthalle (Bonn) 1998, Kiasma (Helsinki) 1999, Hayward Gallery (London) 2000, SFMOMA (San Francisco) 2001, Lyon Biennial 2005, Museum für Abgüsse Klassicher Bildwerke Munich 2005, Venice Biennale 2006, Selfridges (London) 2007, Baltic Exchange (Newcastle) 2007, Ara Pacis (Rome) 2008, Madre (Naples) 2008; DVD 77 Million Paintings 2006; Awards Best Producer BRIT Awards 1994, Record of the Year Grammy Awards 2001 and 2002, The Joe Meek Award for Innovation in Production Music Prodrs' Guild Award 2009

Brian Eno, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

Oblique Strategies (with Peter Schmidt, 1975), A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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