is a Japanese
noise music project, founded in 1984 by . He was later joined by (ex Outo), who first appears on ''Trembling Tongues'' (1995). Ohno is known for making his own
experimental electric guitars out of spare parts and using them in his live performances and recordings; the guitars usually take an extremely bizarre form, utilizing unconventional body shapes, extra necks, strings and
pickups in unusual places, and various extraneous gadgets such as
microphone
A microphone, colloquially called a mic or mike (), is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and public ...
s. Most of their instruments are
multi-neck guitar
A multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks. They exist in both electric and acoustic versions. Although multi-neck guitars are quite common today, they are not a modern invention. Examples of multi-neck guitars and lute ...
s and
harp guitar
The harp guitar is a guitar-based stringed instrument generally defined as a "guitar, in any of its accepted forms, with any number of additional unstopped strings that can accommodate individual plucking." The word "harp" is used in reference to ...
s.
Masahiko Ohno also works as a
graphic design
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er, and has worked on almost all the releases on
Alchemy Records and Hören.
Discography
* ''Gakinoizz'' (1984)
* ''H·A·D·A·Y·R·O'' (1985)
* ''Vexation'' (1985)
* ''H.C.P. Resolvent'' (1985)
* ''Wörkenemy'' (1985)
* ''Re-Rurr'' (1985)
* ''Energetic Enema'' (1986) (with Kyōakukyōjindan)
* ''Highdrophobia'' (1986)
* ''Erosion'' (1987)
* ''Metamorphor Chorus'' (1991)
* ''Morphine Nocturne'' (1992)
* ''Psycledelic'' (1993)
* ''Trembling Tongues'' (1995)
* ''Evil Bed'' (1996)
* ''DLO'' (1998)
* ''Live-Big Rig'' (1993)
* ''The Basement Tapes and Discs'' (2013)
* ''Kill'' (2016)
External links
*
Japanese noise rock groups
Musical groups from Osaka
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