Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing
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Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing is a collaboration album between Boyd Rice
and Frank Tovey, recorded in 1981, but released in 1984 on Mute Records
, and is composed on 12 tracks labeled "extractions" 1-12. Each extraction is a minimalist noise
song, none of which use any conventional musical instruments. Instead the two use various everyday objects, a gas fire, water pipes and any furniture that happened to by lying around Blackwing Studios
as instruments.
Boyd Rice
Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...
and Frank Tovey, recorded in 1981, but released in 1984 on Mute Records
Mute Records
Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:...
, and is composed on 12 tracks labeled "extractions" 1-12. Each extraction is a minimalist noise
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
song, none of which use any conventional musical instruments. Instead the two use various everyday objects, a gas fire, water pipes and any furniture that happened to by lying around Blackwing Studios
Blackwing Studios
Blackwing Studios was an English recording studio, most notable for early Depeche Mode and Yazoo recordings in the early 1980s.-Background:The Blackwing Studios complex was housed inside a deconsecrated church in South-East London. All Hallows church was partly destroyed during The Blitz in 1941...
as instruments.