The Art of Noise

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The Art of Noise
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
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1984 Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? - - - UK27
silver
silver

(17 weeks)UK 		US85 (13 weeks)
US
First published: June 19, 1984
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
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
1989 Below the waste DE33 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH24 (1 week)
CH 		- -
First published: September 4, 1989

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US 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

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
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1983 Beat Box
Into Battle with the Art of Noise 		- - - UK92 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: December 1983
1984 Close (to the Edit)
Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? 		- - - UK8 (21 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: May 1984
1985 Moments in Love
Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise? 		- - - UK51 (7 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: March 1985
Legs
In Visible Silence 		- - - UK69 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: October 1985
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)
Legacy
Re-Works of Art of Noise 		- - - UK95 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: October 1986
1987 Dragnet
In No Sense? Nonsense! 		- - CH29 (1 week)
CH 		UK60 (6 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: June 1987
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
1991 Instruments of Darkness
The FON Mixes 		- - - UK45 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: December 1991
1992 Shades of Paranoimia
The FON Mixes 		- - - UK53 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: February 1992
1999 Metaforce
The Seduction of Claude Debussy 		- - - UK53 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: June 1999

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK