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Robert Fripp ( born 16 May 1946 ) is an English guitarist , composer and record producer . As a guitarist for the ___MASK66___ band King Crimson , Fripp has been the only member to have played in all of King Crimson ' s line - ups from their inception in the late 1960s to the present . He has also worked extensively as a studio musician , notably with singer David Bowie on the albums "" Heroes "" and " Scary Monsters ( And Super Creeps )", Brian Eno , and contributed sounds to the Windows Vista operating system . His complete discography lists more than seven hundred releases over four decades . David Robert Jones ( 8 January 1947  10 January 2016 ), known professionally as David Bowie , was an English singer , songwriter and actor . He was a figure in ___MASK35___ for over five decades , regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator , particularly for his work in the 1970s . His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation , his music and stagecraft significantly influencing ___MASK35___ . During his lifetime , his record sales , estimated at 140 million worldwide , made him one of the world ' s best - selling music artists . In the UK , he was awarded nine platinum album certifications , eleven gold and eight silver , releasing eleven number - one albums . In the US , he received five platinum and seven gold certifications . He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 . Peter Brian Gabriel ( born 13 February 1950 ) is an English singer - songwriter , musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the ___MASK66___ band Genesis . After leaving Genesis in 1975 , Gabriel launched a solo career , with " Solsbury Hill " his first single . His 1986 album , " So ", is his best - selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U . S . The album ' s most successful single , " Sledgehammer ", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and remains the most played music video in the history of MTV . Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , RDI ( born 15 May 1948 and originally christened Brian Peter George Eno ) is an English musician , composer , record producer , singer , writer , and visual artist . He is best known for his pioneering work in ambient and ___MASK42___ as well as his contributions to ___MASK55___ , ___MASK70___ , chance , and generative music styles . A self - described " non - musician ", Eno has advocated a methodology of " theory over practice " throughout his career , and has helped to introduce a ___MASK80___ of unique recording techniques and conceptual approaches into contemporary music . He has been described as one of popular music ' s most influential and innovative figures . Frippertronics is a specific tape looping technique used by Robert Fripp . It evolved from a system of tape looping originally developed in the ___MASK42___ studios of the early 1960s that was first used by composers Terry Riley and Pauline Oliveros and made popular through its use in ambient music by composer Brian Eno . The effect is now routinely found in many commercial loop station guitar digital effects boxes such as the Boss RC - 3 . An MTV ___MASK71___ ___MASK26___ Award ( commonly abbreviated as a VMA ) is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the ___MASK51___ medium . Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards ( in the video category ), the annual MTV ___MASK71___ ___MASK26___ Awards ceremony has often been called the " Super Bowl for youth ", an acknowledgment of the VMA ceremony ' s ability to draw millions of youth from teens to 20 - somethings each year . By 2001 , the VMA had become a coveted award . The statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon , one of the earliest representations of MTV , and colloquially called a " moonman ". The statue was conceived by Manhattan Design  also designers of the original MTV logo  based on the 1981 " Top of the Hour " ___MASK78___ created by Fred Seibert , produced by Alan Goodman , and produced by Buzz Potamkin at Buzzco Associates . The statue is now made by New York firm , ___MASK95___ Awards . Since the 2006 ceremony , viewers are able to vote for their favorite videos in all general categories by visiting MTV ' s website . ___MASK42___ is music that employs electronic ___MASK100___ instruments and electronic music technology in its production , an electronic musician being a musician who composes and / or performs such music . In general , a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology . Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium , Hammond organ , and the electric guitar . Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin , sound synthesizer , and computer . Pauline Oliveros ( May 30 , 1932  November 24 , 2016 ) was an American composer , accordionist and a central figure in the development of experimental and post - ___MASK97___ electronic art music . Peter Gabriel is the second solo ___MASK85___ by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel , released in 1978 . The ___MASK85___ is the second of four with the same eponymous title . Guitarist Robert Fripp served as producer , whose influence on the ___MASK85___ is evident in the use of ' Frippertronics ' on the track `` Exposure '' . The ___MASK85___ did not sell as well as the first Peter Gabriel , but reached No . 10 on the UK charts . `` Mother of Violence '' was written by Peter and his first wife Jill Gabriel . This ___MASK85___ is often referred to as Scratch , referring to the ___MASK85___ cover by Hipgnosis . This ___MASK85___ was originally intended as part of a loose trilogy with Robert Fripp ' s Exposure and Daryl Hall ' s Sacred Songs ( all three albums were produced by Fripp ) . ___MASK66___ ( shortened as " prog "; sometimes " ___MASK39___ ", " classical ___MASK55___ " or " symphonic ___MASK55___ ") is a broad subgenre of ___MASK58___ that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s . Initially termed " progressive pop ", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz , folk or classical music . Additional elements contributed to its " progressive " label : lyrics were more poetic , technology was harnessed for new sounds , music approached the condition of " art ", and the studio , rather than the stage , became the focus of ___MASK100___ activity , which often involved creating music for listening , not dancing . King Crimson are an English ___MASK55___ band formed in London in 1968 . The band has undergone numerous formations throughout its ___MASK22___ of which 21 musicians have been members ; since January of 2017 it has consisted of Robert Fripp , Jakko Jakszyk , Tony Levin , Mel Collins , Pat Mastelotto , Gavin Harrison , Bill Rieflin and Jeremy Stacey . Fripp is the only consistent member of the group , and is considered the band ' s leader and driving force . The band has earned a large cult following . In ___MASK26___ , tape loops are loops of magnetic tape used to create repetitive , rhythmic ___MASK100___ patterns or dense layers of sound when played on a tape recorder . Originating in the 1940s with the work of Pierre Schaeffer , they were used among contemporary composers of 1950s and 1960s , such as Steve Reich , Terry Riley , and Karlheinz Stockhausen , who used them to create phase patterns , rhythms , textures , and timbres . Popular ___MASK26___ authors of 1960s and 1970s , particularly in psychedelic , progressive and ambient genres , used tape loops to accompany their ___MASK26___ with innovative sound effects . In the 1980s , analog audio and tape loops with it gave way to digital audio and application of computers to generate and process sound . The 1987 MTV ___MASK71___ ___MASK26___ Awards aired live on September 11 , 1987 , honoring the best ___MASK26___ videos from May 2 , 1986 , to May 1 , 1987 . The show was hosted by MTV VJs Downtown Julie Brown , Carolyne Heldman , Kevin Seal , Michael Tomioka , and Dweezil Zappa , and it took place at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles . ___MASK73___ is the ___MASK96___ and cataloging of published sound recordings , often by specified artists or within identified musical genres . The exact information included varies depending on the type and scope of the discography , but a discography entry for a specific recording will often list such details as the names of the artists involved , the time and place of the recording , the title of the piece performed , release dates , chart positions , and sales figures . Ambient ___MASK26___ is a ___MASK3___ of ___MASK26___ that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional ___MASK100___ structure or rhythm . Ambient ___MASK26___ is said to evoke an " atmospheric ", " visual ", or " unobtrusive " quality . According to Brian Eno , one of its pioneers , " Ambient ___MASK26___ must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular ; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting ." MTV ( originally an initialism of ___MASK26___ Television ) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks ( a division of Viacom ) and headquartered in New York City . Launched on August 1 , 1981 , the channel originally aired ___MASK26___ videos as guided by television personalities known as " video jockeys " ( VJs ). In its early years , MTV ' s main target demographic was young adults , but today it is primarily towards teenagers , high school students and ___MASK91___ students . MTV has toned down its ___MASK51___ programming significantly in recent years , and its programming now consists mainly of original reality , comedy and ___MASK5___ programming and some off - network syndicated programs and films , with limited ___MASK51___ programming in off - peak time periods . It has received ___MASK33___ towards this change of focus , both by certain segments of its audience and musicians . MTV ' s influence on its audience , including issues involving censorship and social activism , has also been a subject of debate for several years . Terrence Mitchell " Terry " Riley ( born June 24 , 1935 ) is an American composer and performing musician associated with the minimalist school of ___MASK62___ ___MASK4___ , of which he was a pioneer . His work is deeply influenced by both jazz and Indian ___MASK4___ . Scary Monsters ( And Super Creeps ), also known simply as Scary Monsters , is the fourteenth studio ___MASK85___ by David Bowie , released on 12 September 1980 by RCA Records . It was his final studio ___MASK85___ on the label and his first following the so - called Berlin Trilogy of " Low ", "" Heroes "" and " Lodger " ( 1977  1979 ). Though considered very significant in artistic terms , the trilogy had proven less successful commercially . With " Scary Monsters ", however , Bowie achieved what biographer David Buckley called " the perfect balance " of creativity and mainstream success ; as well as earning critical acclaim , the ___MASK85___ peaked at No . 1 in the UK and restored Bowie ' s commercial standing in the US .