The Art of Noise

The Art of Noise was a pop group formed in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn, music journalist Paul Morley, and session musicians/studio hands Anne Dudley, J.J. Jeczalik, and Gary Langan. The group's mostly instrumental compositions were novel and often clever melodic sound collages based on digital sampler technology, which was new at the time. Inspired by turn-of-the-century revolutions in music, the Art of Noise was initially packaged as a faceless anti- or non-group, blurring the distinction between the art and its creators. The band is noted for their innovative use of electronics and computers in pop music and particularly for innovative use of sampling.

Selected discography

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Singles

• "Beat Box" (1983)
• "Close (To The Edit)" (1984)
• "Moments In Love" (1985)
• "Legs" (1985)
• "Paranoimia" featuring Max Headroom (1986)
• "Peter Gunn" featuring Duane Eddy (1986) — Grammy Award winner in 1987
• "Dragnet" (1987)
• "Yebo!" featuring Mahlathini and Mahotella Queens (1989)
• "Dreaming In Colour" (1998)
• "Metaforce" featuring Rakim (1999)

Albums

• Into Battle With The Art of Noise mini-album (1983)
• Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise? (1984)
• In Visible Silence (1986)
• In No Sense? Nonsense! (1987)
• Below the Waste (1989)
• The Seduction of Claude Debussy (1999)

Compilation and remix albums

• Daft (1985)
• Re-works of Art of Noise (1987)
• The Best of the Art of Noise (1988)
• The Ambient Collection (1990)
• Believe System / Bashful / An Extra Pulse Of Beauty (1999)
• Reduction (2000)
• Reconstructed (2004)