Discreet Music  Discreet Music (1975) is the fourth studio album by the British musician Brian Eno, and the first released under his full name "Brian Eno" (as opposed to simply "Eno"). The album is a minimalist work featuring synthesizer and tape delay. The A-side consists of one 30-minute piece, while the B-side features three variations on Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel, performed by the Cockpit Ensemble and conducted by Gavin Bryars. While his earlier collaborations with Robert Fripp and several selections from "Another Green World" (1975) feature similar ideas, "Discreet Music" marked a clear step toward the ambient aesthetic Eno would later codify with 1978's "". Brian Eno's concept of ambient music builds upon a concept composer Erik Satie called "furniture music". This means music that is intended to blend into the ambient atmosphere of the room rather than be directly focused upon. Like Satie's notion of music that could "mingle with the sound of the knives and forks at dinner" "Discreet Music" was created to play in, and blend with, the subtle background audio of various, or any given, situation. The inspiration for this album began when Eno was left bed-ridden in a hospital by an automobile accident and was given an album of eighteenth-century harp music. A friend, as she was leaving, asked if Eno wanted her to put a record on, and he said yes. She did so and left. However, the volume was turned down too low and Eno could not reach to turn it up. It was raining outside, and Eno says he began listening to the rain and to "these odd notes of the harp that were just loud enough to be heard above the rain". Eno said this experience taught him a new way to perceive music: This album is also an experiment in generative composition. His intention was to explore multiple ways to create music with limited planning or intervention. Nicole V. Gagné described the album as "a minimalist work using tape-delay and synthesizer" that would lead to Eno's further experiments in ambient music. In a 1979 interview with Lester Bangs, Eno called "Discreet Music" the most successful of his recordings, explaining that it "was done very, very easily, very quickly, very cheaply, with no pain or anguish over anything, and I still like it." The A-side of the album is a thirty-minute piece originally intended as a background drones for guitarist Robert Fripp to play against in a series of concerts.