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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. A pioneer of industrial music, Rice was one of the first artists to use a sampler and turntable as an instrument.<ref name=Schultz>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is also a writer, archivist, actor, and photographer. Rice's music and art have been influenced by fascist ideas and aesthetics, and he has often been accused of fascist sympathies as a result.

BiographyEdit

Rice was born on December 16, 1956, in Lemon Grove, California.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He became widely known through his involvement in V. Vale's RE/Search Publications.Template:Fact He is profiled in RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook<ref name=REINDUSHAND /> and Pranks!<ref name=REPRANKS>Juno, Andrea (Editor), Ballard, J. G. (Editor), Re/Search #11: Pranks (1987) Template:ISBN</ref>

In the mid-1980s Rice became close friends with Anton LaVey, founder and high priest of the Church of Satan, 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 misanthropic outlook. Each had been inspired by Might Is Right in fashioning various works: LaVey in The Satanic Bible, and Rice in several recordings.

In 1987 Rice and Nikolas Schreck founded the Abraxas Foundation, an "occult-fascist" think tank that also counted Adam Parfrey and Michael J. Moynihan among its members.<ref>Sunshine, Spencer. Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism. Routledge. 2024. Page 161.</ref> During an interview, Rice described the basic philosophy of his foundation as being "The strong rule the weak, and the clever rule the strong".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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

MusicEdit

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 experimentsEdit

Rice started creating experimental noise recordings in 1975, drawing on his interest in tape machines and bubblegum pop sung by female vocalists such as Little Peggy March 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 implementationsEdit

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".<ref name="wire256">Template:Cite journal</ref> 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 turntables as instruments<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and developed various techniques for scratching. Rice has been treating sounds from vinyl recordings as early as 1975.<ref>Blood Book "Boyd Rice Interview" 2010</ref>

NONEdit

Under the name NON, originally with second member Robert Turman, Rice has recorded several seminal noise music albums, and collaborated with experimental music/dark folk artists like Current 93, Death in June and Rose McDowall. Most of his music has been released on the Mute Records label. Rice has also collaborated with Frank Tovey of Fad Gadget, Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus and Michael Jenkins Moynihan of Blood Axis. His later albums have often been explicitly conceptual.

On Might! (1995), Rice layers portions of Ragnar Redbeard's Social Darwinist 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 soundscapes 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 Z'EV. 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 controlEdit

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-indoctrination rites". Rice has performed using a shoe polisher, the "rotoguitar" (an electric guitar with an electric fan on it), and other homemade instruments. He has also used found sounds, 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 torture on audiences in The Hague, 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:

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Other workEdit

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 Arturo Schwarz, with whom he began a long correspondence. Schwarz, a biographer of Duchamp and Man Ray, 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.<ref>Press release from Mitchell Algus Gallery (NYC) for Rice's one man show of paintings.</ref>

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".<ref>Standing in Two Circles</ref> 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).

Personal lifeEdit

Rice dated Lisa Crystal Carver, with whom he has a son.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rice was arrested in 1995 for domestic violence, though never charged.<ref name="auto1">Sunshine 186</ref> Carver writes in her memoir, Drugs Are Nice, that he physically abused her.<ref name="auto1"/>

ViewsEdit

Since the 1980s Rice's music and art have been influenced by fascist ideas and aesthetics. The packaging for NON's 1986 album Blood & Flame, for instance, included a Wolfsangel and a quote from Alfred Rosenberg.<ref>Sunshine 175</ref> He has often been accused of fascist sympathies as a result.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="auto">Sunshine 168</ref> He also cultivated connections with neo-Nazis such as James Mason (who he began corresponding with in 1986<ref>Sunshine 170</ref>), Tom Metzger (whose TV show he appeared on in 1986<ref>Sunshine 173</ref>) and American Front leader Bob Heick.<ref>Sunshine 180. "During this period, the USA Today TV show ran a series called 'Racist Youth.' The third episode featured interviews with both Heick and Rice. Heick, Rice, and others were shown walking through the streets and toasting in a bar. For his sit-down interview, Rice wore sunglasses and his paramilitary uniform, with an American Front patch on the breast."</ref>

In his first letter to Mason, dated April 1986, Rice states “I am completely of the Manson-Hitler thought & do whatever I can to further it.”<ref name=QuietusBlackSky/> This was only made public in May 2025 upon being reported on by Spencer Sunshine, having been read from a collection of Mason's paper correspondence located in an archive at the University of Kansas.<ref name=QuietusBlackSky>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In a later letter to Mason, Spencer reports that Rice states that he was reading American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell’s book White Power and calls it "awesome", and that this letter was decorated with a swastika at the top of the page.<ref name=QuietusBlackSky/>

During one broadcast of Metzger's show, Rice agreed with the hosts assertions that industrial music was “a new propaganda art form for white Aryans”, and when asked about “racial separatism and tribalism,” Rice said “it seems like the only intelligent way to go.”<ref name=QuietusBlackSky/>

Rice introduced Mason to Adam Parfrey and Michael J. Moynihan, who would bring Mason's book Siege to a larger audience.<ref name="auto"/> In 1989, Rice and Heick were photographed for Sassy wearing American Front uniforms and brandishing knives. He has also expressed support for fascism in his writings, interviews, and public appearances.<ref>Sunshine 179. "By 1987, Rice had already started referring to his views as 'fascist,' though not--in public at least--as a 'Nazi.' (He would continue to do so for many years)."</ref>

Rice began to face a backlash for these associations in the late 1980s, when more left-wing avant-garde figures like Jello Biafra, Peter Christopherson, and V. Vale cut their ties with him.<ref>Sunshine 184-85</ref> In the 1990s he began to disassociate himself from the far right and to use fascist iconography with more irony.<ref>Sunshine 188. "After 1993, Rice kept some of the elements of Nazism that he had already picked up, including uniforms and Hitler iconography, even as he moved on. His attention turned towards tiki bars and Holy Grail mysticism, cultivating a relationship with actor Tiny Tim, and collecting Barbie dolls as well as writing and making art. The Nazi imagery he used became blatant and--as he was no longer embedded in the neo-Nazi milieu--more ironic. He posed for a photo in the ANSWER ME! fanzine, in a T-shirt with 'RAPE' in large white letters, in addition to wearing a swastika necklace."</ref>

Rice has denied that he is a neo-Nazi.<ref name='artforum'>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In one 2012 interview he praised Arthur de Gobineau while adding, “I don’t think that to believe in the principle of natural inequality that necessarily equates to: you hate black people or you hate Jews or something.”<ref name=Barry>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In another 2019 interview he described himself as "utterly apolitical."<ref name=Aither>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A 2018 art show was cancelled because of protests over Rice's fascist associations,<ref name='artforum' /> as were some shows on Rice's 2013 tour with Cold Cave.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

DiscographyEdit

Year Title Under
1976<ref>Boydrice.com</ref> The Black Album Boyd Rice
1977 Mode of Infection/Knife Ladder – 7" NON
1978 Pagan Muzak – 7" with multiple locked grooves NON
1982 Rise – 12" NON
1982 (rec. 1977–82) Physical Evidence NON
1983 Sickness of Snakes / Nightmare Culture Boyd Rice & COIL / Boyd Rice & Current 93
1984 (rec. 1981) Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing Boyd Rice and Frank Tovey
1985 Sick Tour – Live in Holland NON
1987 (rec. 1983) Blood and Flame NON
1990 Music, Martinis and Misanthropy Boyd Rice and Friends
1991 Easy Listening for Iron Youth – The Best of NON NON
1992 In the Shadow of the Sword NON
1993 I'm Just Like You The Tards (8" single by Boyd Rice & Adam Parfrey)
1993 Ragnarok Rune Boyd Rice
1993 Seasons in the Sun Spell
1994 The Monopoly Queen – 7" The Monopoly Queen (w/ Mary Ellen Carver & Combustible Edison)
1995 Might! NON
1995 Hatesville The Boyd Rice Experience with Adam Parfrey
1996 Heaven Sent Scorpion Wind (w/ Douglas P. & John Murphy)
1996 Ralph Gean: A Star Unborn Boyd Rice Presents
1996 Death's Gladsome Wedding: Hymns and Marches from Transylvania's Notorious Legionari Movement Boyd Rice Presents
1997 God & Beast NON
1999 Receive the Flame NON
1999 Pagan Muzak – 7" with multiple locked grooves Rerelease NON
2000 The Way I Feel Boyd Rice
2000 Solitude – 7" with locked grooves on B-side NON
2001 Wolf Pact Boyd Rice and Fiends
2002 Children of the Black Sun NON
2002 The Registered Three Boyd Rice & Friends (C.D. Single)
2002 Music for Pussycats: Girl Groups Boyd Rice Presents
2004 Baptism By Fire (Live) Boyd Rice and Fiends
2004 Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975 to Present Boyd Rice/NON
2004 Alarm Agents Death in June & Boyd Rice
2005 The Very Best of Little Fyodor's Greatest Hits! Boyd Rice Presents
2008 Boyd Rice and Z'EV Boyd Rice and Z'EV
2008 Going Steady With Peggy Moffitt Giddle & Boyd
2012 Back to Mono NON
2020 Blast of Silence NON

FilmographyEdit

FilmEdit

  • Pranks! TV! (1986, VHS) (directed by V. Vale), RE/Search Publications
  • Tyranny of the Beat (1991), Mute Records
  • Speak of the Devil (1995, VHS) (about Anton LaVey, directed by Nick Bougas), Wavelength Video
  • Boyd Rice Documentary, Part One (1994), Joel Haertling
  • Boyd Rice Documentary, Part Two (1998), Joel Haertling
  • 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 (2004, DVD) (live performance in Bologna, Italy), NERO2
  • Frank Tovey by Fad Gadget (2006) (documentary), Mute Records
  • Iconoclast (2011) (directed by Larry Wessel), iconoclastmovie.com
  • Modern Drunkard (directed by Frank Kelly Rich)
  • In Satan's Name (BBC documentary by director Antony Thomas)
  • In Satan's Name (Bob Larson's 31-episode television series), Trinity Broadcasting Network
  • Resort Beyond the Last Resort (music video directed by Kansas Bowling), Collapsing Scenery

PerformanceEdit

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  • Sunshine, Spencer. Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Routledge. 2024.

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