Brian Eno

Brian Eno is a musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.

Literature

By Eno

• Music for Non-Musicians, private publishing of 25 copies, c1970, none of which are known to exist today, according to Eno’s management, Opal Ltd., London. The essay is, however, discussed in Eno and Mills, More Dark than Shark.
• "Text for a lecture to Trent Polytechnic", 1974. This essay is quoted in Eno and Mills, More Dark than Shark.
• "Shedding Light on Obscure Records", Street Life (15-28 Nov. 1975).
• with Peter Schmidt, Oblique Strategies, London: 1975; revised, London, 1978, 1979.
• "Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts", Studio International 984 (Nov./Dec. 1976), pp 279-83. Repr. in Gregory Battcock (ed.), Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Critical Anthology of the New Music, New York: Dutton, 1981, pp 129-141.
• with Peter Schmidt, "Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno", Arts Review 29 (9 Dec. 1977), pp 737-738.
• "Ambient Music", liner notes for Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Ambient Records / EG Records, 1978. LP/cassette. with [1] [2].
• "Self-Regulation and Autopoiesis in Contemporary Music", unpublished paper, 1978. Slated for appearance in an anthology that never materialized, this essay is quoted in Eno and Mills, More Dark than Shark.
• "Video-installatie Mistaken Memories of Medieval New York, 1981", Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1982, 2 pp.
• "Pro Session: The Studio as Compositional Tool", in two parts, Down Beat 50 (July 1983), pp 56-57, and Down Beat (Aug. 1983), pp 50-52.
• Zaobilazne strategije: razgovori 1973-1984, eds. Slobodan Cicmil and Goran Vejvoda, Belgrade: Radionica Sic, 1986, 236 pp. (in Serbo-Croatian)
• Works Constructed with Sound and Light: Extracts from a talk given by Brian Eno following the opening of his video installation, Copenhagen, January 1986, London: Opal, 1986.
• "Brian Eno: Place #13, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1986, 15 pp.
• with Russell Mills, More Dark than Shark, London: Faber and Faber, 1986, 144 pp. Commentaries by Rick Poynor.
• "Ambient Music", in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, eds. Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, Bloomsbury, 2004, pp 94-97. Written in 1996.

On Eno

• Riccardo Bertoncelli, Brian Eno, Milan: Arcana, 1982. (in Italian)
• Eric Tamm, Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound, 1989; updated edition, Da Capo Press, 1995.
• Christopher Scoates, Brian Eno: Visual Music, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2013.

External links

• http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/