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Bruce Gilbert
12+ albums
experimentalelectronicnoiseindustrialmute
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Bruce Clifford Gilbert (born on 18 May 1946 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English musician, one of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire and a pioneer in the experimental noise scene. He studied art in a British art school and found a niche in the budding avant-garde music scene in late-1960's England. Gilbert's experimental inclinations in his musical tastes later influenced his guitar playing in the art-punk band Wire. While in Wire he was known as the most experimental member of the group. Gilbert was the guitarist of punk band Wire, which began in 1976. Though not properly trained as a guitarist, he provided much of the experimental base heard in most Wire songs with distortion pedals and other effects. Gilbert explains how he became a member of Wire; "It all came about by accident. I was working as an AV technician in charge of a small studio at Watford college. I was fiddling about as usual, making strange tapes with one of the students. We were planning to do a Tangerine Dream-ish sort of thing, but more harrowing, not as soporific. At that time, I was unaware of the other things that were happening in Germany, the experimental, harder stuff, but I suppose that was what I was working towards, without knowing it. Then a chap who played guitar started dropping by to make use of the facilities. Somehow, the studio just became a focus for people, so some of us just started playing things together. I was very wary of where it migh
