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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,
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, actor, photographer, author, member of the ''Partridge Family Temple'' religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and former staff writer for the formerly defunct but now active '' Modern Drunkard'' magazine.Modern Drunkard Magazine Online staff writer list


Biography

Rice became widely known through his involvement in
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's
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. He is profiled in RE/Search #6/7:
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and ''Pranks!''Juno, Andrea (Editor), Ballard, J. G. (Editor), ''Re/Search #11: Pranks'' (1987) In ''Pranks'', Rice described his experience in 1976 when he tried to give
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's wife,
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, a skinned
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's head. 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 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
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, 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
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outlook. Each had been inspired by '' Might Is Right'' in fashioning various works: LaVey in his seminal ''
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'' and Rice in several recordings. Rice's
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outlook eventually led to him founding the Social Darwinist
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called The Abraxas Foundation, along with co-founder
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. The organization promotes
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,
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, misanthropism, and elitism, is antidemocratic, and has some philosophical overlap with the
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. 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
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Christian Bob Larson."My Dinner with Bob Larson"
, ''Snake Oil'' magazine (1994)
In total, Rice made five appearances on Larson's program. During an interview, Rice described the basic philosophy of his foundation as being "The strong rule the weak, and the clever rule the strong". Although Rice was sometimes reported to possess the world's largest
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collection, he confessed in a 2003 interview with Brian M. Clark to owning only a few.From ''The Black Pimp Speaks'', 2003 interview with Boyd Rice appearing in ''Rated Rookie'' magazine No. 6, 2004. Viewable online: In 2000, along with Tracy Twyman, editor of ''Dagobert's Revenge'', Rice filmed a special on
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for the program ''In Search of...'' on
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television. (The segment was later included in the 2002 version of '' In Search of...'' on the
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.) Rice has done extensive research into
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as well as
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legends and
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lore, sharing this research in ''Dagobert's Revenge'' and ''The Vessel of God''. There is controversy regarding Boyd Rice's authorship and the authenticity of his contributions about Gnosticism and the Esoteric in writings during the phase with Tracy R. Twyman. There are letters which surfaced on the internet after Tracy's death, where she states that Boyd Rice took credit for her ideas, and that Tracy wrote the materials which Boyd Rice claimed for both ''Dagobert's Revenge'' and ''The Vessel of God.'' The website ''davincicodecoded.com'' fficial website for ''Da Vinci Code Decoded'' by Martin Lunncontains references to these letters regarding the authorship of ''The Vessel of God'' and Boyd Rice's working habits with regard to scholarly writing. Rice was involved in creating a
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called Tiki Boyd's at the East Coast Bar in
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, Colorado. Rice decorated the entire establishment out of his own pocket due to his fondness of
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, asking an open tab at the bar in return. Rice has long expressed a love of Tiki culture, in contrast to the other elements of his public persona. Tiki Boyd's was given its name in his honor. 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. October 26, 2018, the teen magazine Galore premiered a music video for the song "''Resort Beyond the Last Resort"'' by the band Collapsing Scenery that Rice starred in. The video was directed by
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and parodies Boyd's essay from ''
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'' "''Revolt Against Penis Envy".'' In the video Rice goes to
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in Denver and then is drugged and raped by a woman.


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

Rice started creating experimental noise recordings in 1975, drawing on his interest in tape machines and bubblegum pop sung by female vocalists such as
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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 2–4 extra holes punched into the record for "multi axial rotation". 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
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as instruments and developed various techniques for
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. Rice has been treating sounds from vinyl recordings as early as 1975.


NON

Under the name NON, originally with second member Robert Turman, Rice has recorded several seminal noise music albums, and collaborated with
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/ dark folk artists like
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,
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and
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. Most of his music has been released on the Mute Records label. Rice has also collaborated with Frank Tovey of
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,
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of
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and
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of
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. His later albums have often been explicitly
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. On ''Might!'' (1995), Rice layers portions of Ragnar Redbeard's
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harangue, '' Might Is Right'' over sound beds of looped noise and manipulated frequencies. 1997's '' God & Beast'' explores the intersection in the soul of man's physical and spiritual natures over the course of an album that alternates abrasive
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s 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
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. 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-
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rites". Rice has performed using a shoe polisher, the "rotoguitar" (an electric guitar with an
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on it), and other homemade instruments. He has also used
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s, played at a volume just below the threshold of pain, to entice his audiences to endure his high decibel sound experiments. Rice coupled his aural assaults with psychological
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on audiences in
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, the Netherlands, by shining in their faces exceedingly bright lights that were deliberately placed just out of reach. As their frustration mounted, Rice states that he:


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
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, with whom he began a long correspondence. Schwarz, a biographer of
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and
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, 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.


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". 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
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into at least six languages. 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 by
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. 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. He later stated in an interview with
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'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 ''Twilight Man'', a noir memoir about his life in 1980s San Francisco.


Controversy

In 1989, Rice and Bob Heick of the
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organization were photographed for '' Sassy'' 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." More controversy has resulted because of Rice's appearance on ''Race and Reason'', a
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cable TV show hosted by white supremacist
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. Rice has claimed not to be a
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in numerous interviews whilst his friend
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has claimed he has never said anything
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nor endorsed
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to her. However,
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has claimed that Rice is a supporter of Nazism. Boyd Rice was associated with Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey and has collaborated with
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, who was Jewish. On August 8, 1988, Boyd Rice was among the performers at 8/8/88 at the Strand Theater in San Francisco, which was locally heavily advertised and sold out, billed as "An Evening of Apocalyptic Delight". Rice appeared with the band Radio Werewolf as well as
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, daughter of the founder of the Church of Satan, and
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. Rice reports that, "Minutes after they took the stage in their Teutonic garb, the audience fled in droves" though others present that night did not see anyone leaving.


Discography


Films

* ''Pranks! TV!'' (1986, VHS), directed by
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, 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 *''"Resort Beyond the Last Resort"'' by Collapsing Scenery, music video directed by
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Performance

* ''Live in Osaka'' (DVD) Features a concert performance from
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, in 1989, with Michael Moynihan,
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,
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, and
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. Also includes Rice's 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:
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'',
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Publications (1983, ) * ''RE/Search No. 10: Incredibly Strange Films: A Guide to Deviant Films'',
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Publications (1986, ) (joint author) * ''RE/Search No. 11: Pranks!''.
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Publications (1986, ) * ''The Manson File'' edited by Nikolas Schreck, Amok Press (1988, ) * '' Apocalypse Culture: Expanded & Revised Edition'' edited by
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, Feral House, (1990, ) * ''
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'', issue No. 3 (1993, ) * ''
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'', issue No. 4 (1994) * ''Death in June: le livre Brun'', Camion Blanc, (1994) * ''Death in June: Misery & Purity'', Jara Press, (1995) * ''The Exit Collection'',
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References


Further reading

Chad Hensley. "Non Sense: An Interview with Boyd Rice". ''Esoterra: The Journal of Extreme Culture'' 9 (Fall/Winter 2000), pp. 12–17.
Arvo Zylo. "Have A Nice Day: An Interview with Boyd Rice". WFMU's Beware of the Blog (May 19, 2011), http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2011/05/a-conversation-with-boyd-rice.html; retrieved October 10, 2017. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rice, Boyd 1956 births Living people American noise musicians American industrial musicians American sound artists American LaVeyan Satanists Mute Records artists American male writers People from Lemon Grove, California Death in June members