Music for Films
Brian Eno
British, born 1948
1978
A 1978 12‑inch vinyl album and its spare sleeve in which Brian Eno presented quiet, atmospheric instrumental pieces conceived as cues for film and as contemplative background listening.
The cover is a flat, warm gray‑brown square sparsely stamped with small, sans‑serif titles in the opposite top corners, its vast empty field conveying silence, restraint, and an open cinematic space.
A touchstone of late‑1970s ambient practice and minimalist graphic design, Music for Films helped define ambient music as a genre, influenced approaches to film scoring, and suggested that background sound can actively shape mood and place.
Medium
12-inch vinyl record
Dimensions
cover: 12 3/8 × 12 3/8" (31.4 × 31.4 cm)
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Department
Credit
Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books Fund
Accession
854.2013.92
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