- Bastard Noise
The Bastard Noise is an
electronic music project. The Bastard Noise has published recordings under various names over the years such as Man is the Bastard Noise, MITBNoise, "The Skull" and Bastard Noise.History
The Bastard Noise was founded in 1991 by Henry Barnes, W. T. Nelson and Eric Wood, initially as a side project of
Power Violence bandMan Is The Bastard .Project Personnel & Past Contributors
Project Members are W. T. Nelson (Trogotronic & Geronimo), Leila Rauf (Saros, Amber Asylum, Ion Channel) & Eric Wood (Ion Channel & Amber Asylum).
The Bastard Noise often collaborates so there are a number of notable contributors, collaborators and ex-members who have participated throughout the life of the project. Among them are Masami Akita of
Merzbow Henry Barnes ofMan is the Bastard &Amps For Christ , Bobby Bray ofThe Locust ,Buckethead , Usen Gandara of Sleestak & Drunk on Blood, Keiji Heino ofBoredoms , Isreal Lawrence ofMan is the Bastard & Loomis Slovak, Josh "Ovalteen" Lewis of Volume Eleven & Honeywell, Tara MacDonald, Justin Pearson ofThe Locust , Jay Randall ofAgoraphobic Nosebleed , Koji Tano ofMSBR andJohn Wiese .Unique Sound and Instrumentation
Although The Bastard Noise utilizes many traditional instruments, the project has come to be known and recognized by the idiosyncratic sound of their purpose-crafted gear unique to the project. Electro-acoustic devices such as "the Coil", controllers such as joysticks repurposed from broken arcade games and a vast array of high & low voltage analog audio generators were invented, engineered and hand-built by Henry Barnes (who builds as Amps for Christ & Guitars For Christ) and W. T. Nelson (who builds for Trogotronic) specifically for The Bastard Noise lending to the projects' distinctive sound.
elected Discography
The Bastard Noise project has documented it's work inside the recording studio, on stage and even in the kitchen with well over 100 recordings issued. Many of these were self-released, the rest were issued by select underground (and occasionally above-ground) worldwide labels such as
Alien8 ,Ground Fault Recordings , [http://www.hearmorerecords.com Hear More!] , Helicopter Records, [http://www.housepig.com Housepig] ,Kitty Play , MSBR Records, Relapse, Thumbprint Press, Triage and Vermiform.* (1993) U.N.D. / Bizarre Uproar / Bastard Noise (Self-Released) 3-way split 12" LP
* (1996)
Merzbow / Bastard Noise: Voice Pie (Relapse Records)compact disc split album* (1996)
The Gerogerigegege / Bastard Noise: Ramonescompact disc split album* (1998) Bastard Noise: If It Be Not True (
Vermiform )compact disc album* (2000) Bastard Noise / Hospital: (Noisebludgeon)
compact disc split album* (2000) Bastard Noise: Skullwave (Helicopter)
compact disc album* (2005) Bastard Noise: The Analysis of Self-Destruction (
Alien8 )compact disc album* (2007) Bastard Noise + Antennacle: collaborative 7" (
Kitty Play )* (2007) Bastard Noise / Amps For Christ / Unicorn / Antennacle / Sleestak / Hierophant: No Skull Left Unturned (Hear More!/200mg)
compact disc Three CD Multi-Split Album, Books and other materialsExternal links
* [http://www.bastardnoise.com Official Website]
* [http://www.trogotronic.com Trogotronic Analog Audio Website]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bastard+Noise Discography at discogs.com]References
cite book
last = Kopish
first = Brian
authorlink = Brian Kopish
title = No Skull Left Unturned
publisher = Hear More! Records & 200MG
year = 2007
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