Boyd Rice was born on December 16,1956, in Lemon Grove, California.
19 Facts About Boyd Rice
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Boyd Rice has documented the writings of Charles Manson in his role as contributing editor of The Manson File.
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Boyd Rice creates music under his own name, as well as under the moniker of NON and with contributors under various other project names.
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Boyd 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.
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From his earliest recordings, Boyd Rice has experimented with both sound and the medium through which that sound is conveyed.
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Boyd Rice was one of the first artists, after John Cage, to treat turntables as instruments and developed various techniques for scratching.
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Boyd Rice has been treating sounds from vinyl recordings as early as 1975.
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Boyd Rice has collaborated with Frank Tovey of Fad Gadget, Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus and Michael Jenkins Moynihan of Blood Axis.
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Boyd Rice has stated that he considers his performances to be "de-indoctrination rites".
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Boyd Rice has performed using a shoe polisher, the "rotoguitar", and other homemade instruments.
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Boyd Rice has used found sounds, played at a volume just below the threshold of pain, to entice his audiences to endure his high decibel sound experiments.
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Boyd Rice coupled his aural assaults with psychological torture on audiences in The Hague, the Netherlands, by shining in their faces exceedingly bright lights that were deliberately placed just out of reach.
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Schwarz, a biographer of Duchamp and Man Ray, encouraged Boyd Rice to pursue his art, no matter what.
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Boyd Rice 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.
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Boyd Rice dated Lisa Crystal Carver, with whom he has a son.
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Boyd Rice was arrested in 1995 for domestic violence, though never charged.
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Boyd Rice has often been accused of fascist sympathies as a result.
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Boyd Rice cultivated connections with neo-Nazis such as James Mason, Tom Metzger and Bob Heick.
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Boyd Rice has expressed support for fascism in his writings, interviews, and public appearances.