MICRO BIONIC: Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century
By Thomas Bey William Bailey
MICRO BIONIC is an exciting survey of electronic music
and sound art from cultural critic and mixed-media artist Thomas Bey
William Bailey - first published in late 2009 - This new edition includes all of the original supplements refused by the
publishers of the first edition, including a full index, bibliography,
additional notes and commentary with a large updated discography.
As the title suggests, the unifying theme of the book
is that of musicians and sound artists taking bold leaps forward in
spite of (or sometimes because of) their financial, technological, and
social restrictions. Some symptoms of this condition include the
gigantic discography amassed by the one-man project Merzbow, the drama
of silence enacted by Onkyo and New Berlin Minimalism, the annihilating
noise transmitted from the laptop computers of Russell Haswell
and Peter Rehberg and much more.
Although the journey begins in
the Industrial 1980s, in order to trace how the innovations of that
period have gained greater currency in the present, it surveys a wide
array of artists breaking ground in the 21st century with radical
attitudes and techniques. A healthy amount of global travel and
concentrated listening have combined to make this a sophisticated yet
accessible document, unafraid to explore both the transgressive extremes
of this culture and the more deftly concealed interstices thereof. Part historical document, part survival manual
for the marginalized electronic musician, part sociological
investigation, Micro Bionic is a number of different things, and as such
will likely generate a variety of reactions from inspiration to
offense...
Numerous exclusive interviews with leading lights in the field
were conducted for this book:
William Bennett (Whitehouse),
Peter Christopherson (r.i.p., Throbbing Gristle / Coil), Peter Rehberg,
John Duncan, Francisco López, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Bob
Ostertag, Zbigniew Karkowski and many others weigh in with a
diversity of thoughts and opinions that underscore the incredible
diversity to be found within new electronic music.
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