Nigel Ayers (born 1957 in Tideswell , Derbyshire ) is an English multimedia artist. His sound art has included numerous audio releases and live performances through his group Nocturnal Emissions .
10-474: Nocturnal Emissions is Nigel Ayers 's sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic , musique concrète , hybridised beats, sound collage , post- industrial music , ambient and noise music . Their sound art has been part of an ongoing multimedia campaign of guerrilla sign ontology utilizing video art , film, hypertext and other media, particularly collage. Nocturnal Emissions were depicted by
20-490: A simulated dream world. He is also interested in eroding the concept of individualised artistic personality using digital technologies to enable multiple authorship. This is exemplified in the remixable sound sample libraries he has released as a sound developer in the commercially released sample libraries for Sony's ACID Pro and Propellerhead's Reason (software) . In his sound installations , such as Soul Zodiac (2006) and The Planetarium Must Be Built (2007) he has explored
30-508: Is rooted in assemblage and collage . Years before digital sampling became commonplace, his recordings used thousands of edited "found" and specially recorded sound samples. His interest in the psychological effects of sound, and in particular the recombination of sound to affect perception of time and space is reflected in CD titles such as "Practical Time Travel" where sound functions as snapshots of memory forming new associations as it passes into
40-727: The name Hank & Slim) (Caciocavallo, 2000) Transgenic CD (Solo album released under the name Transgenic) (Soleilmoon, 2000) Bleeding Images (1982) The Foetal Grave of Progress (1983) The Three Trials – Adventures in Psychotica (Randy Greif dir.) www.thethreetrials.com Online references: [12] Beyond Logic Beyond Belief - retrieved 28 July 2020 Nigel Ayers His sound art collaborations includes work with Bourbonese Qualk , C.C.C.C. , Andrew Liles , Lustmord , Randy Greif , Robin Storey , Expose Your Eyes, Stewart Home , Z'EV , and Zoviet France . In 1980, he founded
50-537: The novelist Stewart Home . The project was initiated in Derbyshire in the late 1970s by Nigel Ayers (b. 1957), a former art student who, during the period, lived in London, together with collaborators Danny Ayers (b. 1964) and Caroline K (1957–2008). Since 1984 Nocturnal Emissions has continued mainly as Nigel Ayers' solo project. In 1979 , Nocturnal Emissions founded Sterile Records. Sterile Records’ approach
60-462: The possibilities of digital remixes in both time and space, using everyday equipment such as multiple CD boomboxes. Robin Storey Rapoon is a musical project of Robin Storey, a former member of Zoviet France , who has released material on notable independent labels such as Staalplaat , Soleilmoon , Manifold , Beta-Lactam Ring , and Lens Records . This article on
70-666: The record label Sterile Records , releasing the first records by John Balance , Maurizio Bianchi and Lustmord , among many others. In 1987 he formed the Earthly Delights (record label) . In the early 1990s, he performed live soundtracks for the Butoh performances of Poppo & the Go Go Boys. His visual art has been exhibited in the Tate , ICA , and worn by the soccer legend Diego Maradona . Ayers' sound art work
80-483: Was a combination of the experiments of musique concrète and Fluxus combined with the critical eye of conceptual art and the spontaneity and energy of punk rock . The dark humour of industrial music and the incomprehensible nonsense of various ultra-leftist political fractions were an essential part of the mix. Sterile Records used both commercial and non-commercial media to deliver anti-capitalist messages, multi-coloured noise and information overload . The label
90-713: Was effectively dissolved in 1986 , when Ayers founded Earthly Delights. In 1990–92, Nocturnal Emissions collaborated on Butoh dance performances in Europe and the United States, with the Japanese choreographer Poppo Shiraishi . Around this time Nocturnal Emissions' Situationist -influenced practice became increasingly informed by magick , stone circles , techno – shamanism , neo-paganism , animism and Fortean research. There were many collaborations on animated films by Charlotte Bill (filmmaker and musician) . Bill
100-738: Was never an official member of Nocturnal Emissions but admits to being one of the legion of members of The Fall Nocturnal Emissions were later to be associated with the Kernow section of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts Oedipus Brain Foil 3xCD (with Randy Greif and Robin Storey) (Soleilmoon, 1998) Mesmeric Enabling Device CD (with John S. Everall and Mick Harris) (Soleilmoon, 1999) The World Turned Gingham CD (with Robin Story, released under
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