A Biography of This, page seven:
"The plain act is there are no conclusions and we are not jumping to them."
🔊 Sense of Doubt, extract seven.
A Biography of This, page seven:
"The plain act is there are no conclusions and we are not jumping to them."
🔊 Sense of Doubt, extract seven.
To celebrate what would have been his 100th birthday, this was when the Art of Noise met the great comedian, actor, raconteur and performance artist Kenneth Williams, who once said he hated innuendo. If he saw it in a script, he whipped it out immediately.
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I. Darkness
Introducing hints of the Art of This live and thinking from the edge of the universe.
(Date to be determined.)
#TheArtOfThis
#ArtOfThis
#This
#TheArtOfNoise
#ArtOfNoise
#Noise
#Art
A Biography of This, page six:
"This is a fact; check it out."
🔊 Sense of Doubt, extract six.
At The ICA, at the edge of the universe, in stereo, on stage and in surround: the love that is Moments In Love.
Because the Art of This love the Art of Noise and vice versa, and love goes on and happens in a heartbeat.
A Biography of This, page five:
"Mistakes are the portal of discovery."
🔊 Sense of Doubt, extract five.
A Biography of This, page four:
"Between Sly and the Family Stone and Steve Reich..."
🔊 Sense of Doubt, extract four.
A Biography of This, page three:
"Do not fear to be eccentric."
🔊 Sense of Doubt, extract three.
This is remembering The Seduction of Claude Debussy. A first-ever vinyl edition of the last-ever Art of Noise album — an exclusive release for Record Store Day — will be released on 18 April 2026.
#recordstoreday
This is another end of an era moment.
Sly Dunbar understood more than anyone the power of the drums, and he loved to come up with a hit pattern, but he also loved to experiment. He once said he’d played on at least a million songs, and he was probably underestimating...
And then this happened.
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A Biography of This, pages one and two:
"This is now and that was then."
🔊 Sense of Doubt, extracts one and two.
On the final day of the year:
This is a Manifesto, the final page.
What's next?
🔊 Movement in That, the final extract.
Thank you, Juno Daily, who placed 'A Futurist Evening With The Art of This' at The ICA, London at No. 5 in their Top 10 Gigs of 2025...
📖 www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/20...
#This is a sequel.
#This is us communicating.
#This is fresh evidence.
This is a Manifesto, page eleven.
"This will go into battle."
🔊 Movement in That, extract eleven.
This is a Manifesto, page ten.
"Ambitious projects... dream ideas."
🔊 Movement in That, extract ten.
And now, this:
A Futurist Evening with The Art of This — Messe Frankfurt Oder, 23 January 2026
Electronic Sound: "A pulsating, profound, production-led new project from JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Paul Morley, three of the original co-founders of The Art Of Noise"
🎟️ www.messe-frankfurt-oder.de
This is a Manifesto, page nine.
"An opening blast."
🔊 Movement in That, extract nine.
This is a Manifesto, page eight.
"Sound and sensibility."
🔊 Movement in That, extract eight.
This is a Manifesto, page seven.
"Act its age..."
🔊 Movement in That, extract seven.
This is a Manifesto, page six.
"Play, replay and remix..."
🔊 Movement in That, extract six.
Jack! How to remember the mysterious, mesmerising and sometimes just gloriously insane playing, natural flow, many milestones and ECM essentials of drummer and composer Jack DeJohnette?
#JackDeJohnette
#TheArtOfThis
#ArtOfThis
#This
Always time to say, this is the time to say... "Here’s Grace!"
Count the years since the release of Slave To The Rhythm, and it’s probably some sort of anniversary.
And here’s Grace wherever and whenever. Not necessarily celebrating an anniversary, just simply celebrating being alive.
This is a Manifesto, page five.
"Extend, warp and adapt..."
🔊 Movement in That, extract five.
This is a Manifesto, page four.
"This is without prejudice."
🔊 Movement in That, extract four.
This is a Manifesto, page three.
"...This can be everything we want it to be."
🔊 Movement in That, extract three.
Wave goodbye to northern soul boy and self-styled electro-punk Dave Ball, of Soft Cell and The Grid. A great provocative thinker about music, and especially electronic music, and the art of the mix.
🔊 Art of Noise: James Bond (12" Mix by The Grid) x 0.1
This is a Manifesto, page two.
This evening, Art of This - an offshoot, descendant and subset of The Art of Noise - make their performance debut at The ICA, London.
🎟️ www.ica.art/live/the-art...
🔊 Movement in That, extract two.
This is a Manifesto, page one.
This Saturday, Art of This - an offshoot, descendant and subset of The Art of Noise - make their performance debut at The ICA, London.
🎟️ www.ica.art/live/the-art...
🔊 Movement in That, extract one.
Ahead of A Futurist Evening with the Art of This live at The ICA on Saturday 18th October, BBC Radio 6 Music's Afrodeutsche talks to Paul Morley about how The People's Party's Umixables Challenge triggered a new era...
🎟️ www.ica.art/live/the-art...
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