Art of Noise

The Art of Noise is a British pop group, founded in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn, the music journalist Paul Morley, and session musicians / studio staff Anne Dudley, JJ Jeczalik and Gary Langan. The band's name came from an essay by futurist Luigi Russolo.

Style and history

The mostly instrumental pieces of the group were new and often cleverly crafted sound collages that were based on the newly developed sampling technique for that time. The Art of Noise was one of the first bands to the Fairlight CMI sampler permanently inserting and thus was a major influence on the music scene of many other musicians.

The book was set in the public as a faceless anti - or non- Group in the scene. This meant that there were no pictures of the faces of the band members, or the group had covered only seen with masks on the album covers. The group wanted to blur the link between the artist and the artwork.

The Art of Noise is assessed in retrospect as a band that dealt particularly challenging and creative with electronic sounds and the then new sampling technique. The band broke up in 1990, before they recorded in 1999 have changed their occupation of another CD ( The Seduction of Claude Debussy ). In the period between the dissolution and the reunion of the band still several best-of albums and new editions appeared of old pieces by various artists.

Discography

Albums

Compilations and remix albums

Singles

Listed are regular publications in chronological order and their respective highest positions and the number of weeks in the German single charts.

DVD

• 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 Wembley, London.

VHS / CD Video

• The Art of Noise: In Visible Silence - Live Hammersmith Odeon (August 15, 1986) Channel 5