JJ Jeczalik, Paul Morley and Gary Langan launch new project
Three of the co-founders of The Art Of Noise – JJ Jeczalik, Paul Morley and Gary Langan – have launched a future-looking project and announce debut London live show.
As the Art Of This they’ll play live at London’s ICA on Saturday 18 October for a show that’s billed as: “An offshoot, a descendant, a subset of electronic pioneers Art Of Noise, making their performance debut… This show will feature words, music and images by Art Of This, Art Of Noise and the art of others, and will be a performance in-the-round, using the venue’s 360° spatial sound system, d&b Soundscape.”
The group is actually a quartet, completed by by Classic Pop founder Ian Peel, and although this is their debut live headline show, the formation did play together for the first time last year, supporting Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey at The O2, where the setlist included the Art Of Noise singles Close (To The Edit), Moments In Love and Paranoimia as well as deep cuts like Instruments Of Darkness, Out Of This World and Legs, and the original debut single Beatbox, the track which originally made its live debut on The Tube back in 1985.
Innovative Force
Quite what “the art of others” means at this stage is anyone’s guess, but the Art Of Noise had a history of leftfield collaborators ranging from Kenneth Williams to The Prodigy, John Hurt to Paul McCartney and of course the AI agent from before we knew what an AI agent was, Max Headroom.
Art Of Noise stand as one of the most innovative forces in electronic music, reshaping sound and redefining what a studio collective could achieve. Their debut Who’s Afraid Of The Art Of Noise? broke ground with its bold use of sampling and avant-garde textures, while In Visible Silence pushed their experimental vision into wider recognition with a striking blend of abstraction and accessibility.
Later works like In No Sense? Nonsense! and Below The Waste showed a group unafraid to evolve, weaving cinematic soundscapes with playful invention.
Tickets for The Art Of This at London’s ICA on Saturday 18 October are available here
Featured image credit: Freya Peel and The Art of That
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