Boyd Rice
Overview
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
magazine.
Rice became widely known through his involvement in V. Vale
's RE/Search
books.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist
Archivist
An archivist is a professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to information determined to have long-term value. The information maintained by an archivist can be any form of media...
, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard
Modern Drunkard Magazine
Modern Drunkard Magazine is a sporadically released glossy color periodical promoting the "functional alcoholic's" lifestyle. Created in 1996, it has slowly gained notoriety, and currently enjoys a circulation of roughly 50,000. The magazine's creator, Frank Kelly Rich, is also listed as the...
magazine.
Rice became widely known through his involvement in V. Vale
V. Vale
V. "Valhalla" Vale is a writer, keyboard player and, as Vale Hamanaka, was a member of the initial configuration of Blue Cheer, prior to that band becoming famous as a power trio. He is the publisher and primary contributor to books and magazines published by his company, RE/Search Publications...
's RE/Search
RE/Search
RE/Search Publications is an American magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded and edited by Andrea Juno and V. Vale in 1980. It was the successor to Vale's earlier punk rock fanzine Search & Destroy , and was started with $100 from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
books.
Quotations
I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.
quoted in an unidentified interview published in Industrial Cultural Handbook, RE/Search Books
So-called intelligence and sophistication, which people attach so much importance to, and think give them clear perceptions, are the very barriers which keep them from ever having any clear perceptions.
quoted in an unidentified interview published in Industrial Cultural Handbook, RE/Search Books
In a field of vision, your mind sees everything. Like whenever I'm with people, I'll always be the first one to see cats--I really like cats. And the other people'll go, 'I don't see any cats'--then they'll notice them.
quoted in an unidentified interview published in Industrial Cultural Handbook, RE/Search Books