Boyd Rice



         


Boyd Rice (1955-) is an American experimental sound artist, archivist, and writer.

As a teenager in the mid-1970s, he began exploring various aspects of sound in his bedroom. His fondness for high-pitched female vocalists like Little Peggy March and Ginny Arnel led him to compile tracks using old tape recorders as instruments. One of his earliest efforts consisted entirely of a loop of every time Leslie Gore sang the word "cry".

Rice has performed using a shoe polisher, an electric guitar with an electric fan on it, and other homemade instruments. He has also used found sounds, played just below the threshold of noise, to entice his audiences to endure his high decibel sound experiments.

Under the pseudonym NON, he has recorded several seminal noise music albums, and collaborated with experimental music/dark folk artists like Current 93, Death in June () and Mute Records label. Rice has also collaborated with Foetus, Michael Moynihan of Blood Axis.

He became widely known through his involvement Re/Search Books. In John Waters, Joe Coleman, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mark Pauline, and Timothy Leary, 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.

Rice has documented the writings of Charles Manson in his role as contributing editor of The Manson File.

In the mid-1980s Rice became close friends with Anton LaVey, founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan. LaVey had been inspired by the 1896 individualist screed, Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard to pen the Satanic Bible in 1966. Rice, a longtime fan of the book, based his 1995 album Might! on it and drew heavily from its text.

Rice was the founder of the Abraxas Foundation, a "Social Darwinist think tank."

In the mid 1990ss, Rice was a featured guest on Talk Back, a radio program hosted by the Evangelical Christian Bob Larson(). In total, Rice made 3 appearances on Larson's program.

He began a romantic and artistic relationship with Lisa Crystal Carver, editor of Rollerderby fame, resulting in several recordings, performances and a son named Wolfgang.

Rice distanced himself from much of Satanism after LaVey's death in 1997. Recently he has focused on Gnosticism as well as Grail legends and Merovingian lore, sharing this research 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.

Rice is thought to possess the world's largest Barbie collection.

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Discography

Year Title Under the name
1978 Knife Ladder / Mode Of Infection, 7-inch (split with Smegma) NON
1978? Pagan Muzak 7-inch NON
Pagan Muzak (Second Edition) NON
1981 The Black Album (Released in US as Boyd Rice) NON
1982 Physical Evidence NON
1982 Rise EP NON
1984 Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (w/ Frank Tovey) NON
1987 Blood and Flame NON
1989 Music Martinis and Misanthropy Boyd Rice and Friends
I'm Just Like You(8") The Tards (w/Adam Parfrey)
1991 Easy Listening for Iron Youth (Best of Non Compilation) NON
1992 In the Shadow of the Sword NON
1993 Seasons in the Sun Spell (w/Rose McDowell)
1993 Ragnarok Rune Boyd Rice
1994 The Monopoly Queen (7") The Monopoly Queen & Boyd Rice (w/ Mary Ellen Carver & Combustible Edison)
1995 Might! NON
1995 Hatesville The Boyd Rice Experience
1997 God and Beast NON
1999 Pagan Muzak (reissue) NON
1999 Receive the Flame NON
2001 Wolf Pact Boyd Rice and Fiends
2002 Children of the Black Sun NON
2004 Pranks! TV! directed by V. Vale, RE/Search Publications, 1986 (VHS)
  • Charles Manson Superstar 1989
  • Speak of the Devil--about Anton LaVey directed by Nick Bougas 1995
  • Pearls Before Swine (film), directed by Richard Wolstencroft 1999
  • The Many Moods of Boyd Rice, Predatory Instinct Productions, 2002
  • Nixing The Twist, directed by Frank Rich, 2000 (DVD)
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