Brian Eno

Musician, composer, producer: Brian Eno is unique in contemporary music. Best known in recent years for producing U2's sensational albums, Eno began his career as a synthesizer player for Roxy Music. He has since released many solo albums, both rock and ambient, written music for film and television soundtracks, and collaborated with David Bowie, David Byrne, Robert Fripp, and classical and experimental composers. His pioneering ambient sound has been enormously influential, and without him today's rock would have a decidedly different sound. Drawing on Eno's own words to examine his influences and ideas, this bookfeaturing a new afterword and an updated discography and bibliographywill long remain provocative and definitive.Table of ContentsEno in the World of Music * Enos Work in Perspective * Background and Influences * On Other Music: Eno as Critic * The Ear of the Non-Musician * Listeners and Aims * The Compositional Process * The Musician as Philosopher Enos Music * Taking Rock to the Limit * Enos Progressive Rock * The Ambient Sound * Collaborations * Essence, History and Beauty * Epilog1989-1995 * Eno on the InternetAuthor BiographyEric Tamm earned his Ph.D. in music at the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught music history, theory, and piano at numerous Bay Area colleges and universities.