ENO, Brian
(*1948)
ENO, Brian (15 May 1948). A prolific producer of recordings, though formally untrained in music, Eno adapts avant-garde ideas for more popular purposes; only occasionally do they survive as consequential innovative art. He collaborated on Gavin Bryars ’s recordings; Eno also recruited Bryars and Cornelius Cardew , among others, to make “1,2, 1–2–3–4” (for Eno’s Obscure label), in which several musicians, each wearing headphones, hear music that they must try to reproduce in live performance…