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Boyd Rice
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Boyd Blake Rice (born December 16, 1956) is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement (http://www.unpopart.org/about.html) and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard magazine.[1]

Boyd Rice
Birth name Boyd Blake Rice Also known NON as Born December 16, 1956 Lemon Grove, California, United States Denver, Colorado, United States Experimental, noise, industrial, drone, neofolk

Contents
1 Biography 2 Music 2.1 Early sound experiments 2.2 Techniques and implementations 2.3 NON 2.4 Crowd control 3 Art 4 Photography 5 Writings 6 Controversy 7 Discography 8 Films 9 Performance 10 Print 11 References

Origin Genres

Occupations Composer, author Instruments Tape machines, turntables Years active 1975present Labels Associated acts Mute Scorpion Wind, Death in June, Rose McDowall, Current 93, Adam Parfrey, Albin Julius, Radio Werewolf boydrice.com (http://boydrice.com)

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Biography
Rice became widely known through his involvement in V. Vale's RE/Search books. He is profiled in RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook[2] and Pranks!.[3] In Pranks, Rice described his experience in 1976 when he tried to give President Ford's wife, Betty Ford, a skinned sheep's head on a silver platter. In this interview, he emphasized the consensus nature of reality and the havoc that can be wreaked by refusing to play by the collective rules that
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dictate most people's perception of the external world. In the mid-1980s Rice became close friends with Anton LaVey, founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, and was made a Priest, then later a Magister in the Council of Nine of the Church. The two admired much of the same music and shared a similar misanthropic outlook. Each had been inspired by Might is Right in fashioning various works: LaVey in his seminal Satanic Bible and Rice in several recordings. Rice's Social Darwinist outlook eventually led to him founding the Social Darwinist think tank called The Abraxas Foundation, along with co-founder Nikolas Schreck, named after the ancient Gnostic god Abraxas. The organization promotes authoritarianism, totalitarianism, misanthropism, and elitism, is antidemocratic, and has some philosophical overlap with the Church of Satan. During an interview with Christian talk show host Bob Larson, Rice described the basic philosophy of the foundation as being "The strong rule the weak, and the clever rule the strong".[4] Rice has documented the writings of Charles Manson in his role as contributing editor of The Manson File. Rice was a featured guest on Talk Back, a radio program hosted by the Evangelical Christian Bob Larson.[5] In total, Rice made five appearances on Larson's program. Although Rice was sometimes reported to possess the world's largest Barbie collection, he confessed in a 2003 interview with Brian M. Clark to owning only a few.[6] In 2000, along with Tracy Twyman, editor of Dagobert's Revenge, Rice filmed a special on the Rennes-le-Chateau for the program In Search of... on Fox television. (The segment was later included in the 2002 version of In Search of... on the Sci Fi Channel.) Rice has done extensive research into Gnosticism as well as Grail legends and Merovingian lore, sharing this research in Dagobert's Revenge and The Vessel of God.[7] Rice was involved in creating a Tiki bar called Tiki Boyd's at the East Coast Bar in Denver, Colorado. Rice decorated the entire establishment out of his own pocket due to his fondness of Tiki culture, asking an open tab at the bar in return. Boyd has long expressed a love of Tiki culture, in contrast to the other elements of his public persona.[8] Tiki Boyd's was given its name in his honor.[9] Due to disagreements between Rice and the owners, Rice pulled out of the deal and reclaimed all of his Tiki decorations. The future of the bar as it remains now is uncertain. Rice plans to re-establish another Tiki Bar elsewhere in Denver.[8]

Music
Rice creates music under his own name, as well as under the moniker of NON and with contributors under various other project names.

Early sound experiments

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Rice started creating experimental noise recordings in 1975, drawing on his interest in tape machines and bubblegum pop sung by female vocalists such as Little Peggy March and Ginny Arnell. One of his earliest efforts consisted entirely of a loop of every time Lesley Gore sang the word "cry". After initially creating recordings simply for his own listening, he later started to give performances, and eventually make records. His musical project NON grew out of these early experiments; he reportedly selected the name because "it implies everything and nothing".

Techniques and implementations

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 24 extra holes punched into the record for "multi axial rotation".[10] Another early LP was titled Play at Any Speed. 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[citation needed ] and developed various techniques for scratching. Rice has been treating sounds from vinyl recordings as early as 1975.[11]

NON
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 conceptual. On Might! (1995), Rice layers portions of "Ragnar Redbeard"'s Social Darwinist harangue, Might is Right over sound beds of looped noise and manipulated frequencies. 1997's God and Beast explores the intersection in the soul of man's physical and spiritual natures over the course of an album that alternates abrasive soundscapes with passages of tranquility. In 2006, Rice returned to the studio to record raw vocal sound sources for a collaboration with Industrial, modern primitive percussionist/ethnomusicologist Z'EV. In addition, he and long-time friend of twenty years Giddle Partridge planned an album titled LOVE/LOVE-BANG/BANG!, under the band name of Giddle & Boyd. After the limited edition release of a bubblegum pink, heart-shaped vinyl E.P. titled, Going Steady With Peggy Moffitt. In early 2010, Rice announced that he and Giddle Partridge would focus on solo projects/albums for the time being.

Crowd control
Early NON performances were designed to offer choice to audience members who might otherwise expect only a prefabricated and totally passive entertainment experience. Rice has stated that he considers his performances to be "de-indoctrination rites". Rice has performed using a shoe polisher, the "rotoguitar" (an electric guitar with an electric fan on it), and other homemade instruments. He has also used found sounds, played at a volume just below
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the threshold of pain, to entice his audiences to endure his high decibel sound experiments. Rice coupled his aural assaults with psychological torture on audiences in Den Haag, the Netherlands, by shining exceedingly bright lights in their faces that were deliberately placed just out of reach. As their frustration mounted, Rice states that he: ..continued to be friendly to the audience, which made them even madder, because they were so mad and I didn't care! They were shaking their fists at me, and I thought that at any minute there'd be a riot. So I took it as far as I thought I could, and then thanked them and left.[2]

Art
After dropping out of high school at the age of 17, Rice began an in-depth study of early 20th-century art movements, producing his own abstract black and white paintings and experimental photographs. Early on, he met European art historian and gallery owner, Arturo Schwarz, with whom he began a long correspondence. Schwarz, a biographer of Duchamp and Man Ray, encouraged Rice to pursue his art, no matter what. And he did. Though he would later shift his focus to sound, he has never stopped creating visual art and has given a number of one man shows over the years.[12]

Photography
In the mid-1970s Rice devoted a great deal of time to experimental photography, developing a process by which he could produce "photographs of things which don't exist".[13] He had a one man show of the photos in the early 1980s at Richard Peterson's Pink & Pearl Gallery in San Diego, which was documented in the local press, the San Diego Union and Evening Tribune. He has never revealed the means by which he made these photos, and has stated publicly that the secret will go to the grave with him. Some of these photos can be seen in his book Standing in Two Circles (Creation Press, 2008).

Writings
Over the years, Boyd Rice's writings have been translated into at least six languages.[14] His collected writings were published in 2008 by Creation Press. A French language edition followed on Camion Noir. In 2009, his book No was published. This was widely regarded as a book defining Rice's personal philosophy. Rice defined the book as merely a "laundry list" of things he didn't believe in[citation needed ]. He later stated in an interview with WFMU's Beware of the Blog, "sometimes the things you don't believe are more important than what you do believe". In October 2011, Heartworm Press published Rice's autobiographical novel Twilight Man, a noir memoir about his life in 1980's San Francisco[citation needed ].
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Controversy
In 1989, Rice and Bob Heick of the American Front were photographed for Sassy Magazine wearing uniforms and brandishing knives. While Rice would later recall it as a prank, the photo has caused boycotts and protests at many of Rice's appearances. When asked if he regrets the photo, Rice stated, "I don't care. I don't think I ever made a wrong move. The bad stuff is just good. America loves its villains".[15] This photograph was additionally published in the book Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture by James Ridgeway.[16] More controversy has resulted because of Rice's appearance on Race and Reason,[17] a public-access television cable TV show hosted by white nationalist Tom Metzger. Rice has claimed not to be a Nazi in numerous interviews[18] whilst his friend Rose McDowall has claimed he has never said anything racist nor endorsed Nazism to her.[19] However Stewart Home has claimed that Rice is a supporter of Nazism.[20] Boyd Rice is associated with Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey who was born Jewish[21] and has collaborated with Adam Parfrey[22] who is Jewish.[23] On August 8, 1988, Boyd Rice was among the organizers and performers at a Satanic rally organized at the Strand Theater in San Francisco, which was locally heavily advertised and sold out, billed as the largest gathering of Satanists ever recorded. Rice appeared with the band Radio Werewolf as well as Zeena Lavey of the Church of Satan, and with the Secret Chiefs and Kris Force.[24]

Discography
Year 1976[25] 1977 1978 1982 1983 1984 (rec. 1981) 1985 1987 (rec. 1983)
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Title The Black Album Mode of Infection/Knife Ladder 7" Pagan Muzak 7" with multiple locked grooves Rise 12" Sickness of Snakes / Nightmare Culture Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing Sick Tour Live in Holland Blood and Flame Boyd Rice NON NON NON NON

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1982 (rec. 197782) Physical Evidence

Boyd Rice & COIL / Boyd Rice & Current 93 Boyd Rice and Frank Tovey NON NON
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1990 1991 1992 1993 1993 1993 1994 1995 1995 1996 1996 1997 1999 1999 2000 2000 2001 2002 2002 2002 2004 2004 2004 2005 2008 2008
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Music, Martinis and Misanthropy Easy Listening for Iron Youth The Best of NON In the Shadow of the Sword I'm Just Like You Ragnarok Rune Seasons in the Sun The Monopoly Queen 7" Might! Hatesville Heaven Sent A Star Unborn God & Beast Receive the Flame The Way I Feel Solitude 7" with locked grooves on B-side Wolf Pact Children of the Black Sun The Registered Three Music for Pussycats Baptism By Fire (Live) Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975 to Present Alarm Agents The Very Best of Little Fyodor's Greatest Hits! Boyd Rice and Z'EV Going Steady With Peggy Moffitt

Boyd Rice and Friends NON NON The Tards (8" single by Boyd Rice & Adam Parfrey) Boyd Rice Spell The Monopoly Queen (w/ Mary Ellen Carver & Combustible Edison) NON The Boyd Rice Experience Scorpion Wind (w/ Douglas P. & John Murphy) Boyd Rice Presents Ralph Gean NON NON Boyd Rice NON Boyd Rice and Fiends NON Boyd Rice & Friends (C.D. Single) Boyd Rice Presents Boyd Rice and Fiends Boyd Rice/NON Death in June & Boyd Rice Boyd Rice Presents Boyd Rice and Z'EV Giddle & Boyd
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2012

Back to Mono[26]

NON

Films
Pranks! TV! (1986, VHS), directed by V. Vale, RE/Search Publications Tyranny of the Beat Mute Records (1991) Speak of the Devil (1995, VHS), about Anton LaVey, directed by Nick Bougas, Wavelength Video Boyd Rice Documentary, Part One Joel Haertling (1994) Boyd Rice Documentary, Part Two Joel Haertling (1998) Pearls Before Swine (1999), directed by Richard Wolstencroft Nixing The Twist (2000, DVD), directed by Frank Kelly Rich, High Crime Films The Many Moods of Boyd Rice (2002, VHS), Predatory Instinct Productions Church of Satan Interview Archive (2003, DVD), Purging Talon Baptism by Fire (Live performance in Bologna Italy) DVD Released by NERO2 (2004) Frank Tovey by Fad Gadget (documentary) Mute Records (2006) Iconoclast (2011 release date) Directed by Larry Wessel (www.iconoclastmovie.com) Modern Drunkard (In Production), directed by Frank Kelly Rich In Satan's Name BBC documentary by award winning director Antony Thomas In Satan's Name Bob Larson's 31 episode television series for the Trinity Broadcasting Network

Performance
Live in Osaka (DVD), features concert performance from Osaka, Japan, in 1989, with Michael Moynihan, Tony Wakeford, Douglas P., and Rose McDowall. Also includes Rice-made films Invocation (One) and Black Sun

Print
Perpetual Permutation Poetry, International Artist's Cooperative, (1976) Painted Black, Carl Rashke Tape Delay, SAF Publishing, (1987) Pop Void, Pop Void Publications, (1987) RE/Search No. 6: Industrial Culture Handbook, RE/Search Publications (1983, ISBN 0-940642-07-7) RE/Search No. 10: Incredibly Strange Films: A Guide to Deviant Films, RE/Search Publications (1986, ISBN 0-940642-09-3) (joint author) RE/Search No. 11: Pranks!. RE/Search Publications (1986, ISBN 0-9650469-8-2)
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The Manson File edited by Nikolas Schreck, Amok Press (1988, ISBN 0-941693-04-X) Apocalypse Culture: Expanded & Revised Edition edited by Adam Parfrey, Feral House, (1990, ISBN 0-922915-05-9) ANSWER Me!, issue No. 3 (1993, ISBN 0-9764035-3-6) ANSWER Me!, issue No. 4 (1994) Death in June: le livre Brun, Camion Blanc, (1994) Death in June: Misery & Purity, Jara Press, (1995) The Exit Collection, Tacit, (1998) Taboo: The Art of Tiki, Outre Press, (1999) Lucifer Rising, Plexus Publishing, (1999) Cinema Contra Cinema, Fringecore, (1999) Apocalypse Culture II, edited by Adam Parfrey, Feral House (2000, ISBN 0-922915-57-1) Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader, issue 32, Spring 2003. The Book of Lies, Disinformation Press, (2003) 100 Artists See Satan, Last Gasp Press, (2004) The Vessel of God, Terra Fria, (2005) .45 Dangerous Minds, Creation Press, (2005) Art That Kills, Creation Press, (2006) Noise Music: A History, Continuum International Publishing Group, (2007) The Book of Satanic Quotations, Purging Talon Press, (2008) Bubblegum & Sunshine Pop, Les Cahiers du Rock, (2008) Iron Youth Reader, Underworld Amusements, (2008) Standing in Two Circles: Les Ecrits de Boyd Rice, (French translation) edited by Brian M. Clark Camion Noir, (2009, ISBN 978-2-35779-010-0) Standing in Two Circles: The Collected Works of Boyd Rice, edited by Brian M. Clark, CTBKS, (2008, ISBN 1-84068-118-7) No, Heartworm Press, (2009) Death in June: Hidden Behind the Runes, Aldo Clementi, (2010) Mondo Movies, Baazar & Co., (2010) Charles Manson: Le Guru du Rock, Camion Noir, (2010) Twilight Man, Heartworm Press, (2011) Vlad the Impaler, Ian Allen, (2011) No, Expanded and revised edition Heartworm Press Death in June Songbook

References
1. ^ Modern Drunkard Magazine Online staff writer list (http://www.drunkard.com/md_staff.html)
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2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

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^ a b Vale, V. Juno, Andrea. Re/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook (1983) ISBN 0-940642-07-7 ^ Juno, Andrea (Editor), Ballard, J. G. (Editor), Re/Search #11: Pranks (1987) ISBN 0-940642-10-7 ^ "Boyd Rice debates with Bob Larson 3/5" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsiyFmMTmI). YouTube. June 21, 2010. Retrieved April 1, 2012. ^ name=SNAKEOIL>"My Dinner with Bob Larson" (http://www.devilsweb.com/snakeoil/boyd.html), Snake Oil magazine (1994) ^ From The Black Pimp Speaks, 2003 interview with Boyd Rice appearing in Rated Rookie magazine No. 6, 2004. Viewable online: [1] (http://www.boydrice.com/interviews/blackpimp.html) ^ "An Introduction to the Grail Research & Esoteric Writings of Boyd Rice" (http://www.thevesselofgod.com/). The Vessel of God. Boyd Rice. Retrieved July 26, 2012. ^ a b "Tiki Boyd's Denver's Newest & Only Tiki Bar" (http://www.boydrice.com/tikiboyds/about.html). Boydrice.com. Retrieved April 1, 2012. ^ "Tiki Boyd's" (http://www.boydrice.com/tikiboyds/). Tiki Boyd's. DISCRIMINATE MEDIA. Retrieved July 26, 2012. ^ "Laugh til it hurts". The Wire magazine (256). | a c c e s s d a t e =requires | u r l =(help) ^ Blood Book "Boyd Rice Interview" 2010 ^ Press release from Mitchell Algus Gallery (NYC) for Rice's one man show of paintings. ^ Standing in Two Circles ^ Biography of "No", Heartworm Press ^ "With Pity Towards None (interview)" (http://www.boydrice.com/interviews/tangents.html). Tangents. 1997. ^ Ridgeway, James. Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990. ISBN 978-1-56025-003-6 ^ "Boyd Rice's Race and Reason interview causes controversy" http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=33873_0_2_0_C ^ "Boyd Rice" (http://www.boydrice.com/interviews/misanthrope.html). Boyd Rice. Retrieved April 1, 2012. ^ "He's never said anything racist to me. I've talked to him about it and he's said he now has to be careful about things he says because people will misconstrue things. I'm sure he did wear swastikas when he was a punk, a lot of punks did" Rose McDowall, more quotes like this in the interview also. http://www.strawberryswitchblade.net/print.php?section=interviews&item=rose ^ "Tony Wakeford, Sol Invictus, Above The Ruins, fascism, Boyd Rice" (http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/wakeford2.htm). Stewarthomesociety.org. Retrieved April 1, 2012. ^ picture of Boyd and LaVey: http://www.boydrice.com/gallery/friends_gallery/1980-02.html ^ Hatesville at Boyd Rice and Friends's discography (http://www.boydrice.com/discography/friendsdiscography.html) ^ "Boyd Rice on Race and Reason". 1986. ^ "No Other Radio Network September 22 Broadcast". September 22, 1988. ^ official website, www.boydrice.com ^ "Boyd Rice Interview Back to Mono" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlkzf3EwXgA). YouTube. June 21, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2012.

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