- J. J. Jeczalik
Jonathan Edward Stephen Jeczalik, better known as J.J. Jeczalik (born
11 May 1955 ) is a retired electronicmusician , and co-founder of the formerelectronic music group,Art of Noise . Jeczalik also worked as arecord producer and musician on a number of thePet Shop Boys early recordings. Jeczalik has produced under the name "Art of Silence" as well in the mid 1990s.He currently resides in
Oxford ,England with his wife and two daughters where he is an ICT Development Manager atOxford High School .Before Art of Noise
Before working with
Trevor Horn and theZTT Records label, Jeczalik had studied little about music. Through working withGeoff Downes (whom co-foundedThe Buggles with Horn) and hisFairlight CMI sampler, Jeczalik got in touch with Horn in the early 1980s and became the main programmer and player of Horn's own Fairlight. Jeczalik worked with several artists and bands including:*
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
*Yes
*Stephen Duffy
*Kate Bush
*Dollar
*ABCWhen the Fairlight CMI Series II came out in 1982, Jeczalik got access to "Page R", the built-in sequencer for the Fairlight. While working on the Yes
album "90125", Jeczalik was experimenting withdrum and percussion samples from Yes'drummer , Alan White. Jeczalik along withsound engineer ,Gary Langan , sequenced drum beats and breaks in Page R and created "Beat Box", the debut single for Art of Noise.During production of
Malcolm McLaren 's album "Duck Rock ", Jeczalik and Langan metAnne Dudley , aclassical music session musician andcomposer . Along with Horn, Langan, Dudley andPaul Morley , Jeczalik co-founded Art of Noise in 1983.External links
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