Boyd Rice / Non

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American experimental sound artist, born in 1956; Boyd Rice creates music under his own name, as well as under the moniker of NON and with contributors under various other project names. He was a pioneer in "noise music" in the mid seventies; since then he contributed much to the upcoming (sub)culture known as "industrial". From his earliest recordings, Rice has experimented with both sound and the medium through which that sound is conveyed. His methods of expanding upon the listening possibilities for recorded music were simple. On his second seven-inch, he had 2-4 extra holes punched into the record for "multi axial rotation". While working exclusively with vinyl, he employed locked grooves that allowed listeners to create their own music. He was one of the first artists, after John Cage, to treat turntables as instruments and developed various techniques for scratching, though it is difficult to prove that Rice's turntablism preceded its connection to rap music. He was treating sounds from vinyl recordings as early as 1975. Under the name NON, originally with second member Robert Turman, Rice has recorded several seminal noise music albums, and collaborated with experimental music/dark folk artists like Current 93, Death In June and Rose McDowall. Most of his music has been released on the Mute Records label. Rice has also collaborated with Foetus, Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus and Michael Moynihan of Blood Axis. His later albums have often been explicitly conc

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Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975 - Present

Back to Mono

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Terra Incognita - Ambient Works, 1975-Present

Terra Incognita - Ambient Works 1975 - Present

Terra Incognita: Ambient Work

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Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975-Present

Archival Rarities 1975 - 1981

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Terra Incognita

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Terra Incognita: Ambient Works, 1975-Present

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Terra Incognita: Ambent Works 1975-Present

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Wolf Pact

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Terra Incognita (ambient works)

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