Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were an English avant-garde synth-pop group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer
Gary Langan and programmer
J. J. Jeczalik, along with arranger
Anne Dudley, producer
Trevor Horn and music journalist
Paul Morley. The group had international Top 20 hits with
Kiss and the instrumental
Peter Gunn, which won a 1986 Grammy Award. The group's mostly instrumental compositions were novel melodic sound collages based on digital sampler technology, which was new at the time. Inspired by turn-of-the-20th-century revolutions in music, the Art of Noi…
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