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

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Boring. Windows chime was his peak imo

[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Music for Airports

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Which to be clear is an album

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Some of the best ambient music of our time.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

“Ambient 1: Music for Airports” basically invented the genre of specifically-designed ambient music. Before that, it was all background noise and Muzak.

[–] PostiveNoise@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 day ago

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.