Music

Some of the best ambient music of our time.

“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.

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

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.

Music for Airports