The Art of Noise
The Art of Noise | |
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General information | |
Genre (s) | Synth-pop , new wave , ambient |
founding | 1983 |
Founding members | |
producer |
Trevor Horn (until 1985, from 1998) |
Music journalist, producer |
Paul Morley (until 1985, from 1998) |
Composer |
Anne Dudley |
Keyboard |
JJ Jeczalik (until 1990) |
Sound engineer |
Gary Langan (until 1987) |
Current occupation | |
Composer |
Anne Dudley |
producer |
Trevor Horn |
producer |
Paul Morley |
Musician |
Lol Creme (from 1998) |
former members | |
Ted Hayton |
The Art of Noise is a British pop group formed in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn , music journalist Paul Morley and studio musicians / staff Anne Dudley , J. J. Jeczalik and Gary Langan . The name of the band is borrowed from the title of an essay by the futurist Luigi Russolo .
Style and history
The group's mainly instrumental pieces were new for the time and often cleverly designed sound collages based on the newly developed sampling technique. The Art of Noise was one of the first bands to use the Fairlight CMI sampler on a permanent basis and thus shaped the music of many other musicians.
The band was staged in public as a faceless anti or non-group. This meant that there were no photos of the band members' faces, or that the group was only covered in masks on the record covers. The group wanted to blur the link between the artist and the work of art .
In October 1988, Art of Noise published with Tom Jones , a commercially successful cover version of the Prince -Titel Kiss . In retrospect, The Art of Noise is rated as a band that handled electronic sounds and sampling technology, which was still new at the time, in a particularly demanding and creative manner. The band broke up in 1990 and then recorded another CD (The Seduction of Claude Debussy ) in 1999 with a different line- up. In the period between the breakup and the reunification of the band, several best-of albums and new editions of old pieces by various artists were released.
Discography
Studio albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
1984 | Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? | - | - | - |
UK27
silver
(17 weeks)UK |
US85 (13 weeks) US |
First published: June 19, 1984
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1986 | In Visible Silence |
DE41 (16 weeks) DE |
AT11 (18 weeks) AT |
CH22 (6 weeks) CH |
UK18 (15 weeks) UK |
US53 (30 weeks) US |
First published: April 14, 1986
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1987 | In No Sense? Nonsense! |
DE48 (4 weeks) DE |
- |
CH27 (1 week) CH |
UK55 (2 weeks) UK |
US134 (9 weeks) US |
First published: September 28, 1987
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1989 | Below the waste |
DE33 (9 weeks) DE |
- |
CH24 (1 week) CH |
- | - |
First published: September 4, 1989
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Compilations
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
1988 | The best of |
DE34 (11 weeks) DE |
- |
CH27 (3 weeks) CH |
UK55 (3 weeks) UK |
US83 (14 weeks) US |
First published: November 21, 1988
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More albums
- 1983: Into Battle with the Art of Noise
- 1984: (Who's Afraid of?) The Art of Noise!
- 1986: In Visible Silence
- 1986: Daft
- 1987: In No Sense? Nonsense!
- 1987: Re-works of Art of Noise (double LP with an excerpt from the live concert at Hammersmith Odeon , August 15, 1986)
- 1988: The Best of the Art of Noise
- 1988: Below the Waste
- 1990: The Ambient Collection
- 1991: The Fon Mixes
- 1996: Drum and Bass Collection
- 1997: State of the Art
- 1999: The Seduction of Claude Debussy
- 1999: Belief System / Bashful / An Extra Pulse of Beauty
- 2000: Reduction
- 2004: Reconstructed
- 2006: And What Have You Done with My Body, God?
- 2010: Influence: Hits, Singles, Moments, Treasures ...
- 2015: At the End of a Century
Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
1983 | Beat Box Into Battle with the Art of Noise |
- | - | - |
UK92 (2 weeks) UK |
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First published: December 1983
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1984 | Close (to the Edit) Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? |
- | - | - |
UK8 (21 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: May 1984
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1985 | Moments in Love Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise? |
- | - | - |
UK51 (7 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: March 1985
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Legs In Visible Silence |
- | - | - |
UK69 (3 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: October 1985
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1986 | Peter Gunn In Visible Silence |
DE17 (12 weeks) DE |
AT10 (16 weeks) AT |
CH17 (8 weeks) CH |
UK8 (10 weeks) UK |
US50 (11 weeks) US |
First published: March 1986
(feat. Duane Eddy ) |
Paranoimia In Visible Silence |
DE33 (21 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK12 (11 weeks) UK |
US34 (12 weeks) US |
First release: June 1986
(feat. Max Headroom) |
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Legacy Re-Works of Art of Noise |
- | - | - |
UK95 (1 week) UK |
- |
First published: October 1986
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1987 | Dragnet In No Sense? Nonsense! |
- | - |
CH29 (1 week) CH |
UK60 (6 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: June 1987
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1988 |
Kiss the best of |
DE16 (18 weeks) DE |
AT4 (14 weeks) AT |
CH11 (10 weeks) CH |
UK5 (7 weeks) UK |
US31 (11 weeks) US |
First published: October 1988
(feat. Tom Jones ) |
1989 | Yebo! Below the waste |
DE49 (9 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK63 (3 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: August 1989
(feat.Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens) |
1990 | Art of Love The Ambient Collection |
- | - | - |
UK67 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: June 1990
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1991 | Instruments of Darkness The FON Mixes |
- | - | - |
UK45 (5 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: December 1991
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1992 | Shades of Paranoimia The FON Mixes |
- | - | - |
UK53 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: February 1992
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1999 | Metaforce The Seduction of Claude Debussy |
- | - | - |
UK53 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: June 1999
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Video albums
- The Art of Noise: Into Vision , (2002): Concert excerpts from four concerts between 1999 and 2000 in Chicago , (The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival) in California , in Shepherd's Bush , London and in Wembley , London.
VHS / CD video
- The Art of Noise: In Visible Silence - Live Hammersmith Odeon (Aug. 15, 1986) Channel 5
Others
The title Legs was used in the 1980 / 1990s by WDR as music for introducing / trailer for school television. The track Moments in Love was used in the GDR television series Johanna at the end of the 1980s (possibly in a replayed version) .
The title Peter Gunn was named "best performance of a rock instrumental" at the 1987 Grammy Awards .
At the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards , the video for Kiss starring Tom Jones was recognized as a " Breakthrough Video ".
Web links
- Official website of The Art of Noise
- The Art of Noise on MusicBrainz (English)
- Art of Noise Discography (English)