Talk:Brian Eno/Archive 2

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In 2010, Eno was invited to serve as a mentor for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic programme that pairs masters in their disciplines with emerging talents for a year of one-to-one creative exchange. Out of a very gifted field of candidates, Eno chose Ben Frost, a young Australian musician living in Iceland, as his protégé. RMP2014 (talk) 14:11, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Did it attract any significant press coverage? --McGeddon (talk) 14:27, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, there was some press coverage, The Telegraph did a whole article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RMP2014 (talk • contribs) 09:01, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

XP installation music
During the installation of Windows XP, a piece of music plays in the background which has been variously credited to Brian Eno and Suzanne Ciani. The composer of this piece is unclear, and needs a reliable source.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 06:11, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

What is his name?
The lede and info box both give his name as originally Brian Peter George Eno. But also says his name is Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno.

So when did he add the extra. Did he change it to commemorate his school? MidlandLinda (talk) 22:50, 27 February 2015 (UTC)


 * This source says: "Educated at St Joseph's College, Birkfield, Ipswich, which was founded by the St John le Baptiste de la Salle order of Catholic brothers (from whom he took his additional name when a student) ..." Martinevans123 (talk) 22:54, 27 February 2015 (UTC)


 * The Suffolk Eno stem from Walloon religious refugees named Hen(n)ot or Henoth. Through this origin, Brian Eno is distantly related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Henot . As an interesting fact, also Katharina Henoth as well as her father Jacob Henot https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Henot (whose familiar origins were near Liège in the Walloon part of Belgium) were postmasters.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.219.90.60 (talk) 13:03, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Very interesting, although apparently unconnected to his middle names. Do have any reliable source for this ancestry/connection? Martinevans123 (talk) 13:33, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The middle names have been made up by Brian Eno maybe as a souvenir to his school upbringing. One maybe should contact him personally why he adopted these names. The proof for blood relationship to the family of Katharina Henot can be found partially on the web. If not suffient for your purposes, contact the genealogists on Belgian and German genealogy reseach pages.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:46:1A0B:1B75:2004:5C52:66C7:E94A (talk) 23:44, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

What's up with this? A Shutov fan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruSctDIxfc — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:D40:B130:849:B00D:B2FE:295 (talk) 18:49, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

It's silly and tasteless to include his confirmation name. *EVERY* Catholic "takes" another name on confirmation; these are practically never used; they are rarely registered in civil records. Does Eno use his? If not, I vote for cutting them out. Unless WP plans to revise its articles on *EVERY* Catholic. Wegesrand (talk) 13:51, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Eno's connections
I'm curious as to why Low isn't credited on the Bowie link in this illustration, seeing as how the second side is basically Eno and Tony Visconti (as with Heroes)? As well, seeing as this diagram is from Enoweb, what is the copyright situation? Kaini (talk) 21:59, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

An even greater omission is the single link to Phil Manzanera through "801 Live", considering that they were in Roxy Music together, Manzanera's solo albums, the Quiet Sun album "Mainstream" album, at least three of Eno's solo albums, just to name a few. He has collaborated with Manzanera probably more than with any other artist. So whoever made that drawing was woefully uninformed. Gil gosseyn (talk) 16:34, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Stopping wars?
if they really wanted to stop the war in Syria they target Russia. The link is to an article by Jonathan Freedland, just to illustrate that their view of themselves is challenged, and isn't the reasonable, self evident assertion you claim it to be. To say they oppose all bombs is propaganda because they are selectively vocal, selectively silent. Come on Martin, you're not this stupid.78.144.80.249 (talk) 22:53, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * You seem to be using an article by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian to make a political point about the Stop the War Coalition. What's that got to do with Brian Eno? The article says "... established ... to campaign against what it believes are unjust wars." So maybe we should use that description? Martinevans123 (talk) 07:35, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

the "frippertronics" tape-delay thing...
... has been in use by many others before eno, e.g. steve reich, terry riley, pauline oliveiros & others.

eno himself used the two revoxes bought with roxy's advance to treat mackay's sax in the middle of a demo version of '2HB'.

I don't know how to get this OR into the article convincingly, but something needs to be done about the current para which suggests to the unwary that eno invented the technique.

duncanrmi (talk) 05:06, 27 June 2018 (UTC)


 * The basic idea of tape echo was available the 1950s. Frippertronics is a variation which places two tape recorders some distance apart, allowing delays of up to ten seconds. Stigler's law of eponymy is involved here, because Robert Fripp wasn't the first person to have this idea, although he did make use of it as a feature of his work. The article Frippertronics doesn't claim that he invented the technique, which is fair.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 05:41, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Pigeon-fancying reverted
I recently reverted this edit which claimed that Eno was into pigeon fancying. There was no support in the cited source. —Mark Dominus (talk) 13:54, 13 November 2020 (UTC)