Three of the co-founders of The Artwork Of Noise – JJ Jeczalik, Paul Morley and Gary Langan – have launched a future-looking undertaking and announce debut London reside present.
Because the Artwork Of This they’ll play reside at London’s ICA on Saturday 18 October for a present that’s billed as: “An offshoot, a descendant, a subset of digital pioneers Artwork Of Noise, making their efficiency debut… This present will function phrases, music and pictures by Artwork Of This, Artwork Of Noise and the artwork of others, and will probably be a efficiency in-the-round, utilizing the venue’s 360° spatial sound system, d&b Soundscape.”
The group is definitely a quartet, accomplished by by Traditional Pop founder Ian Peel, and though that is their debut reside headline present, the formation did play collectively for the primary time final yr, supporting Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey at The O2, the place the setlist included the Artwork Of Noise singles Shut (To The Edit), Moments In Love and Paranoimia in addition to deep cuts like Devices Of Darkness, Out Of This World and Legs, and the unique debut single Beatbox, the monitor which initially made its reside debut on The Tube again in 1985.
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Fairly what “the artwork of others” means at this stage is anybody’s guess, however the Artwork Of Noise had a historical past of leftfield collaborators starting from Kenneth Williams to The Prodigy, John Damage to Paul McCartney and naturally the AI agent from earlier than we knew what an AI agent was, Max Headroom.
Artwork Of Noise stand as one of the progressive forces in digital music, reshaping sound and redefining what a studio collective may obtain. Their debut Who’s Afraid Of The Artwork Of Noise? broke floor with its daring use of sampling and avant-garde textures, whereas In Seen Silence pushed their experimental imaginative and prescient into wider recognition with a hanging mix of abstraction and accessibility.
Later works like In No Sense? Nonsense! and Under The Waste confirmed a gaggle unafraid to evolve, weaving cinematic soundscapes with playful invention.
Tickets for The Artwork Of This at London’s ICA on Saturday 18 October can be found right here
Featured picture credit score: Freya Peel and The Artwork of That
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