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77-711: Psychic TV (also referred to as PTV , Psychick TV , as well as several other aliases) were an English experimental video art and music group, formed by performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and Scottish musician Alex Fergusson in 1981 after the break-up of Throbbing Gristle . Contributors to Psychic TV have included artists such as Coil , Current 93 , Monte Cazazza , Larry Thrasher , Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson , Soft Cell , Fred Giannelli , Hafler Trio , The Cult , Master Musicians of Jajouka , William Breeze , Derek Jarman , John Gosling , Timothy Leary , Rose McDowall , Andrew Weatherall , and Z'EV . Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (a.k.a. T.O.P.Y.) formed as an organisation at

154-448: A "new definition that makes it possible to restrict to a laboratory, which is tolerated but subject to inspection, all attempts to corrupt musical morals. Once they have set limits to the danger, the good ostriches go to sleep again and wake only to stamp their feet with rage when they are obliged to accept the bitter fact of the periodical ravages caused by experiment." He concludes, "There is no such thing as experimental music ... but there

231-409: A 7" and 12" single on the 10-year anniversary of the death of Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis . The sleeve was a hand drawn image of Ian Curtis derived from a famous photograph. In the early 1990s, Vice-President of Elektra Records, Howard Thompson took an interest in signing Psychic TV. He explained that he was going to take a one-year sabbatical from the music industry and he had been asked to run

308-617: A DJ set and were interviewed on New York's station WNYU on 5 September 2006. PTV3 performed several songs on WFMU in Jersey City on 7 September. The band were interviewed as well. This was the first time ever Psychic TV had played live on air. To inaugurate the release of Hell Is Invisible... Heaven Is Her/e , PTV3 hosted a five night residency in September 2006 at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn , USA, followed by

385-653: A European tour and a small US tour during early 2003. The second single from the album, a cover of the Four Seasons ' "The Night", reached No. 39 in the UK. Soft Cell had considered recording "The Night" in place of "Tainted Love" during 1981, though keyboardist David Ball stated in a 2003 interview with the BBC, "I think history has kind of shown that we did make the right choice [in 1981]". In 2005 they released an album compiling some of their early demo recordings called

462-454: A certain exploratory attitude", experimental music requires a broad and inclusive definition, "a series of ands , if you will", encompassing such areas as "Cageian influences and work with low technology and improvisation and sound poetry and linguistics and new instrument building and multimedia and music theatre and work with high technology and community music, among others, when these activities are done with

539-411: A compositional resource. Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s) involved; in many cases, the musicians make an active effort to avoid clichés ; i.e., overt references to recognizable musical conventions or genres. The Groupe de Recherches de Musique Concrète (GRMC), under the leadership of Pierre Schaeffer , organized

616-706: A different nation, on the 23rd of each month for 23 months; though the series was discontinued after 17 albums, it earned the band an entry in The Guinness Book of World Records . Towards the end of this period Fergusson/P-Orridge completed their third proper studio album, Allegory and Self (1988)Though recorded in 1986. It was at this point that P-Orridge became interested in the burgeoning acid house and techno movements. Alex Fergusson left early 1987, reason bad management. Was replaced by techno artist Fred Giannelli. During this period Fred Giannelli , Dave Ball from Soft Cell, Richard Norris (who later formed

693-440: A duo but that they may still perform abroad and record together. Soft Cell's songs have been covered by several artists, including David Gray , Coil and Nine Inch Nails . Their track "Memorabilia" earned recognition for the band as pioneers of the synth-oriented techno genre. The duo have sold in excess of ten million records world-wide. Soft Cell were formed in 1978, after Almond and Ball had met at Leeds Polytechnic in

770-584: A major independent record label and he wanted to sign Psychic TV to that label. The label was in fact, Herb Alpert's and Jerry Moss's new imprint Almo Sounds, after the sale of A & M Records. Studio time was booked and Genesis P-Orridge, Fred Giannelli and Matthew Best went into Brilliant Studios in San Francisco to record demos. Four tracks were recorded and rough mixes delivered and were rejected by Almo Sounds. The songs were entitled: "Snowflake", "Intoxication", "E-Lusive" and "Avatar". During this period,

847-686: A new Soft Cell album was in the works. In May 2019, the To Show You, I've Been There book was released, which came with a vinyl copy of the Magick Mutants EP, a sequel to their debut Mutant Moments EP. In June 2020, the Mutant Moments EP received its first official release. Originally to be part of the UK June Record Store Day 2020, the 10 inch EP was sold directly through the band's website, as

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924-531: A new period with Psychic TV returning to its psychedelic pop roots with Thrasher co-producing and co-writing the critically acclaimed Trip/Reset as well as the album "Cold Blue Torch" and new experimental explorations which centred around the spoken word poetry of P-orridge in releases like "Thee Fractured Garden" and "Breathe". "Thee Fractured Garden" was a seminal example of this period where Psychic TV blended ambient music , samples and sound collages with spoken word . This eventually led P-Orridge and Thrasher to

1001-634: A place in the Guinness Book of World Records . On 4 November 2009, Genesis P-Orridge announced via their website, "Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is retiring from touring in any and all bands including TG to concentrate on art, writing and music." However, with PTV3 they eventually went on a short European tour in 2013 and were performing occasionally in the US and elsewhere. In 2016 Psychic TV toured internationally to support their Alienist release. Experimental music The practice became prominent in

1078-445: A quite distinct sense of the term was used in the late 1950s to describe computer-controlled composition associated with composers such as Lejaren Hiller . Harry Partch and Ivor Darreg worked with other tuning scales based on the physical laws for harmonic music. For this music they both developed a group of experimental musical instruments . Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as

1155-590: A remix for a forthcoming single. Despite claiming their 2018 reunion show would be the last in the UK, Soft Cell reunited again for 5 performances in 2021. The short tour was to mark 40 years of the Non Stop Erotic Cabaret album, with the band performing the album in full, as well as some hits and new material. The run began at the O2 Academy in Glasgow, Scotland on 10 November and ended at

1232-460: A second and final single in an attempt to score a chart success. The band opted to record a cover version of "Tainted Love", an obscure 1965 northern soul track originally released by Gloria Jones (the girlfriend of Marc Bolan at the time of his death) and written by Ed Cobb of the Four Preps . Released in 1981, Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" was a No. 1 hit in 17 countries, including

1309-575: A series of live dates. They performed at the opening of the Ocean nightclub in London during March 2001. A mini-tour followed later in the year. The track "God Shaped Hole" featured on the Some Bizzare compilation titled I'd Rather Shout at a Returning Echo than Kid Someone's Listening , released during 2001. A new Soft Cell album, Cruelty Without Beauty , was released during late 2002, followed by

1386-413: A years-long pursuit of "pandrogyny", undergoing painful plastic surgery procedures to become gender-neutral human beings that looked like each other. We started out, because we were so crazy in love, just wanting to eat each other up, to become each other and become one. And as we did that, we started to see that it was affecting us in ways that we didn't expect. Really, we were just two parts of one whole;

1463-638: A young man having recently left home to live in a bedsit while partying hard. "Bedsitter" reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1981. The song was highly acclaimed in a retrospective review by AllMusic journalist Ned Raggett who wrote that it "ranks as one of the best, most realistic portrayals of urban life recorded." The final single on the album, the ballad " Say Hello, Wave Goodbye ", peaked at No. 3 in February 1982. During 1982,

1540-559: Is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s) involved; in many cases the musicians make an active effort to avoid overt references to recognizable musical genres. Sources Soft Cell Soft Cell are an English synth-pop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. The duo consists of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball . The band are primarily known for their 1981 hit version of " Tainted Love " and their platinum-selling debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret . In

1617-470: Is a very real distinction between sterility and invention". Starting in the 1960s, "experimental music" began to be used in America for almost the opposite purpose, in an attempt to establish an historical category to help legitimize a loosely identified group of radically innovative, " outsider " composers. Whatever success this might have had in academe, this attempt to construct a genre was as abortive as

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1694-723: Is mostly taken from the CDs PTV released with Thrasher along with contributors such as Skinny Puppy and other notable musical allies of this time. The original motivation for the Electric Newspaper series was to ensure that the PTV sample files were archived after the loss of the entire PTV sampling library in the dramatic five alarm fire at the Houdini Mansion on Laurel Canyon in Hollywood. This fire, which burned down

1771-420: Is not restricted to the inclusion of sonorities derived from musical instruments or voices , nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical" ( melody , harmony , rhythm , metre and so on). The theoretical underpinnings of the aesthetic were developed by Pierre Schaeffer , beginning in the late 1940s. Fluxus was an artistic movement started in the 1960s, characterized by an increased theatricality and

1848-610: Is thought to have been connected with her long-term battle with stomach cancer. Lady Jaye collapsed and died in Genesis' arms, as described in the 2011 movie "The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye" by Marie Losier. PTV3 released the CD-DVD set Mr. Alien Brain vs. The Skinwalkers in December 2008, the first full-length release since the death of Genesis' "other half" Jaye Breyer (best known as Lady Jaye). The two had previously embarked on

1925-469: Is unknown". David Cope also distinguishes between experimental and avant-garde, describing experimental music as that "which represents a refusal to accept the status quo ". David Nicholls, too, makes this distinction, saying that "...very generally, avant-garde music can be viewed as occupying an extreme position within the tradition, while experimental music lies outside it". Warren Burt cautions that, as "a combination of leading-edge techniques and

2002-566: The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 that Soft Cell were releasing two new tracks ahead of the concert: "Northern Lights" and "Guilty (Cos I Say You Are)". Entitled "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye", the reunion concert took place at the O2 Arena in London on 30 September 2018. It was stated this was their final live UK show as a duo, but that they may still perform abroad and record material together. In 2019 Ball said

2079-568: The "American Experimental School". These include Charles Ives, Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger , Henry Cowell , Carl Ruggles , and John Becker . The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. They often drew inspiration from Marcel Duchamp and Dada and contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular conceptual art , pop art , jazz , improvisational theater, experimental music, and

2156-483: The 'TV' component of the name was intended to focus on the visual elements of the outfit. P-Orridge once claimed that "Psychic TV is a video group who does music unlike a music group which makes music videos". Psychic TV made their live debut in Autumn 1982 as a part of the "Final Academy", a multi-performance event dedicated to and featuring William S. Burroughs . In November 1982, Psychic TV's debut studio album, Force

2233-439: The 18,000 sq ft (1,700 m) mansion, left P-Orridge in the intensive care unit at Cedar Sinai hospital with life-threatening injuries after they (along with members of the band Love and Rockets ) jumped from their bedroom windows to escape the flames. Results of this event sent P-Orridge on a two-year health sabbatical to recover, during which they were involved in a million dollar lawsuit against Rick Rubin , who owned

2310-507: The 1950s, the term "experimental" was often applied by conservative music critics—along with a number of other words, such as "engineers art", "musical splitting of the atom", "alchemist's kitchen", "atonal", and "serial"—as a deprecating jargon term, which must be regarded as "abortive concepts", since they did not "grasp a subject". This was an attempt to marginalize, and thereby dismiss various kinds of music that did not conform to established conventions. In 1955, Pierre Boulez identified it as

2387-581: The 23rd day of 23 consecutive months. Psychic TV was influential in pioneering the acid house genre, releasing several fake compilations in an effort to popularize the sound, such as Jack the Tab and Tekno Acid Beat . According to some, acid house was actually given its name by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge . After breaking up in 1999, they reformed as PTV3 with a completely new line-up in 2003, but disbanded in 2020 when their core member Genesis Breyer P-Orridge died. Since Genesis P-Orridge primarily wrote

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2464-645: The Bedsit Tapes . Another similar compilation entitled Demo Non Stop was also released around this time. In November 2008, the band released a remix album entitled Heat . The album included Soft Cell tracks remixed by such acts as Paul Dakeyne , the Grid , Manhattan Clique , Cicada , Richard X , Ladytron , MHC , Atomizer , Mark Moore , Spektrum , The Dark Poets and many more. In February 2018, Soft Cell announced that they would reunite for one last UK reunion concert. On 21 August 2018, Almond revealed on

2541-455: The European avant-garde of the time ( Boulez , Kagel , Xenakis , Birtwistle , Berio , Stockhausen , and Bussotti ), for whom "The identity of a composition is of paramount importance". The word "experimental" in the former cases "is apt, providing it is understood not as descriptive of an act to be later judged in terms of success or failure, but simply as of an act the outcome of which

2618-580: The First International Decade of Experimental Music between 8 and 18 June 1953. This appears to have been an attempt by Schaeffer to reverse the assimilation of musique concrète into the German elektronische Musik , and instead tried to subsume musique concrète, elektronische Musik , tape music, and world music under the rubric "musique experimentale". Publication of Schaeffer's manifesto was delayed by four years, by which time Schaeffer

2695-646: The Grid with Dave Ball), John Gosling, engineer Richard Evans and other techno artists released music not only as Psychic TV but also under a variety of fake names. The idea behind this was to release fake "compilations" by imaginary artists, creating a sense that a healthy acid house scene existed in the UK. The key studio albums of this period were Jack the Tab – Acid Tablets Volume One (1988), Tekno Acid Beat (1988), Towards Thee Infinite Beat (1990; credited to Psychic TV) and Beyond Thee Infinite Beat (1992; credited to Psychic TV; 12" remixes of Towards tracks which could be played at 33 or 45 rpm). Almost all of

2772-491: The Hand of Chance , was released by Some Bizzare Records and distributed by WEA International ; its accompanying single, "Just Drifting", came out in the same year's December. Dreams Less Sweet , a follow-up to Force... , was released in 1983. Lyrics were handled by P-Orridge while the music was written by Fergusson and sound experiments primarily created by Christopherson and Geff Rushton, a.k.a. John Balance – foreshadowing

2849-674: The Houdini Mansion. P-Orridge won the case, but was left with a metal plate and eight screws in their permanently disabled and reconstructed arm. In 1998 P-Orridge announced that they primarily wanted to move into spoken word, which is when Campagna left the band to pursue his own projects, and turned to focus on Thee Majesty with musical line-up of Larry Thrasher and Bryin Dall. In 2005, the Voiceprint record label in England re-released several older Psychic TV and Genesis P-Orridge albums under

2926-630: The Moon for the 21st century". Concerts in 2006 included Sheffield, Birmingham and London, UK, as well as Brussels, Amsterdam and Moscow. The 2006 line up consisted of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (vocals, "noise bass"), Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (samples), Edley ODowd (drums), Alice Genese (bass), David Max (guitar), Markus Aurelius Cirkus Maximus Dangerous Fabulous Persson (keyboards) and Zef Noi$ e (electric violin). The 2006 shows included an 'all new video light show' by Sterile Cowboys & Co. (a.k.a. Nicolas Jenkins) – three screens of heavily overlaid video with

3003-568: The Northern Soul scene."What!" was a major hit in the UK and reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart in August that year. By 1983, fame and nearly constant drug use were having a bad effect on the duo. Marc Almond also formed the group Marc and the Mambas , featuring collaborations with The The 's Matt Johnson and future Almond collaborator Annie Hogan, as an offshoot to experiment out of

3080-461: The Some Bizzare label, backed by Phonogram Records . Their first single, "A Man Could Get Lost" b/w "Memorabilia" on 7" and "Memorabilia" b/w "Persuasion" on 12", was produced by Daniel Miller who founded Mute Records , "Memorabilia" was a success in nightclubs, but did not enter the UK singles chart. After the chart failure of "Memorabilia", Phonogram Records allowed Soft Cell to record

3157-650: The US Top 40. The A-side of the 12-inch single of "Tainted Love" actually featured a two-song medley, with "Tainted Love" blending into the Motown classic " Where Did Our Love Go " (originally recorded by the Supremes in 1964). The duo's first album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret , hit UK No. 5 and further explored the now-trademark Soft Cell themes of squalor and sleaze. "Seedy Films" talks of long nights in porno cinemas, while "Frustration" and "Secret Life" deal with

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3234-468: The US, P-Orridge underwent a divorce which traumatised them immensely. Most of the output during this period was made up of re-releases of earlier albums, especially by industrial music record labels who released the albums as a "paying of respects" to the founder of industrial music . In 1992 Kim Cascone , founder of Silent Records, introduced P-Orridge to Larry Thrasher , co-founder of the mid 80's American experimental noise band Thessalonians. This began

3311-509: The United Kingdom, Soft Cell had twelve top 40 hits, including "Tainted Love" (number 1), " Torch " (number 2), " Say Hello, Wave Goodbye ", " What " (both number 3), and " Bedsitter " (number 4). They also had four top 20 albums between 1981 and 1984. The duo split in 1984 but reformed in 2001 to tour and release a new album. They held a reunion concert in London on 30 September 2018, stating it would be their last live UK performance as

3388-584: The United Kingdom, where it was the second best selling single of 1981 after selling 1.05 million copies (a total which increased to 1.35 million copies by August 2017). In 1982, "Tainted Love" became a No. 8 single in the United States and went on to set a Guinness World Record at the time for the longest consecutive stay (43 weeks) on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song's popularity developed slowly, needing 19 weeks to enter

3465-630: The above-mentioned tour. Hell Is Invisible... Heaven Is Her/e was released in 2007. In February 2007 the website Side-Line announced the news that the Fee Lee record label released a Psychic TV live album, Live in Russia . In the same year Psychic TV played at the ZXZW festival. Lady Jaye died suddenly on 9 October 2007 at home in Brooklyn, New York, from a previously undiagnosed heart condition which

3542-469: The aim of finding those musics 'we don't like, yet', [citing Herbert Brün ] in a 'problem-seeking environment' [citing Chris Mann ]". Benjamin Piekut argues that this "consensus view of experimentalism" is based on an a priori "grouping", rather than asking the question "How have these composers been collected together in the first place, that they can now be the subject of a description?" That is, "for

3619-515: The band ever got to having a No. 1 hit with one of their own songs. The song entered straight into the Top 20 and peaked at No. 2. In June 1982, as was the trend at the time, the duo released a mini album titled Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing , containing remixes of older material along with their new single, "What!", which is a cover of the 1965 song by Melinda Marx , which was later covered in 1968 by Judy Street , whose version became extremely popular on

3696-651: The band famously performed at Mr Floppy's Flophouse events in Oakland. In 1992, a video apparently created by Psychic TV was falsely presented as evidence of Satanic ritual abuse in an edition of Channel 4 TV's Dispatches . As a result, P-Orridge claimed initially that they were deported, although later admitted that they decided not to return to England from Kathmandu, where they and their family had been on holiday after selling an Austin Osman Spare painting to Chris Stein from Blondie for US$ 10,000 which financed

3773-460: The boredom and hypocrisy associated with suburban life. A companion video titled Non-Stop Exotic Video Show was released in 1982 and featured videos directed by Tim Pope . The video generated some controversy in Britain, mainly due to a scandal involved with the "Sex Dwarf" clip. Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret garnered two additional hits: " Bedsitter " dealt with the loneliness and lifestyle of

3850-416: The category it purports to explain is an exercise in metaphysics , not ontology". Leonard B. Meyer , on the other hand, includes under "experimental music" composers rejected by Nyman, such as Berio, Boulez and Stockhausen, as well as the techniques of "total serialism ", holding that "there is no single, or even pre-eminent, experimental music, but rather a plethora of different methods and kinds". In

3927-553: The create several offshoot groups Splinter Test and later Thee Majesty , which focused on the spoken word and sonic experiments. Other notable releases upon which P-Orridge collaborated with Thrasher were the Electric Newspapers, a series of open source sample releases that blurred the sampling CD concept with a stream of consciousness listening experience. Material from the Electric Newspaper series of releases (there are six in total, but only four have been released)

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4004-743: The duo released a new single "Soul Inside", which returned them to the UK Top 20, but by early 1984 the duo had amicably decided to end Soft Cell. They played farewell concerts at Hammersmith Palais in January, and released one final album called This Last Night in Sodom (UK No. 12) in March. The album's second and final single "Down in the Subway" (UK No. 24), had already been released in February 1984. Almond and Ball reunited as Soft Cell in 2000 with

4081-409: The duo spent most of their time recording and relaxing in New York City, where they met a woman named Cindy Ecstasy who Almond would later confirm was his drug supplier (it was Cindy Ecstasy who introduced them to the new nightclub drug of the same name). Soon after "Say Hello Wave Goodbye" dropped out of the chart, Soft Cell released a brand new song: "Torch" , a love song which was to prove the closest

4158-503: The early musique concrète work of Schaeffer and Henry in France. There is a considerable overlap between Downtown music and what is more generally called experimental music, especially as that term was defined at length by Nyman in his book Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (1974, second edition 1999). A number of early 20th-century American composers, seen as precedents to and influences on John Cage, are sometimes referred to as

4235-459: The event was cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic . In July 2021, the duo announced that their new album would be called Happiness Not Included and would feature tracks such as "Heart Like Chernobyl", "Light Sleepers" and "Nostalgia Machine". The album was released in May 2022, 20 years after their previous studio album release, with Dave Ball revealing Pet Shop Boys were working on

4312-473: The glare of the Soft Cell spotlight. Soft Cell's third album release, appropriately titled The Art of Falling Apart , was a Top 5 hit in the UK but the singles were only modest successes. The first single "Where The Heart Is" only reached 21, while the double A-side "Numbers"/"Barriers" peaked at 25. "Numbers" also generated controversy due to references in the song to the drug speed . In September 1983,

4389-415: The inception of the band, who conceived it as a magical order and the philosophical wing of Psychic TV. T.O.P.Y. also functions as a cult-like fan-club for the group. Psychic TV have released over one hundred full-length albums to date, and earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for most records released in one year (1986). This occurred after the band attempted to release 23 live albums on

4466-420: The interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle . Composers/Musicians included John Cage , Earle Brown , Christian Wolff , Morton Feldman , David Tudor among others. Dance related: Merce Cunningham Musique concrète ( French ; literally, "concrete music"), is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material

4543-421: The live shows in this period were based around the songs on these albums. From '88–'90 PTV was very stable as a live unit and did more gigs and touring than any other version of PTV before or after. They embarked on a long tour of the US and UK in 1988, Europe in 1989 and another long tour of the United States in 1990. In 1990, Psychic TV released the song "I.C. Water" from the album Towards Thee Infinite Beat as

4620-404: The lyrics instead of the music for Psychic TV, they would assemble different groups of musicians together to create the music. The history of Psychic TV can be broken up into the periods of the main songwriter that was working with them at the time. Psychic TV was formed with the core membership of Genesis P-Orridge (ex- Throbbing Gristle ) and Alex Fergusson in 1981. Alex Fergusson was a member of

4697-428: The meaningless namecalling noted by Metzger, since by the "genre's" own definition the work it includes is "radically different and highly individualistic". It is therefore not a genre, but an open category, "because any attempt to classify a phenomenon as unclassifiable and (often) elusive as experimental music must be partial". Furthermore, the characteristic indeterminacy in performance "guarantees that two versions of

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4774-526: The mid-20th century, particularly in Europe and North America. John Cage was one of the earliest composers to use the term and one of experimental music's primary innovators, utilizing indeterminacy techniques and seeking unknown outcomes. In France, as early as 1953, Pierre Schaeffer had begun using the term musique expérimentale to describe compositional activities that incorporated tape music , musique concrète , and elektronische Musik . In America,

4851-457: The middle screen overlaid by yet another layer of "analog" projections, including moiréd overlays and liquid/oil effects performed by "something human" a.k.a. Caleigh Fisher, a friend from the TOPY years. Videos from the upcoming album and DVDs were previewed as works in process. Much of the video work revolves around Breyer P-Orridges exploration of the 'pandrogyne'. P-Orridge and Mo Edley performed

4928-446: The most part, experimental music studies describes [ sic ] a category without really explaining it". He finds laudable exceptions in the work of David Nicholls and, especially, Amy Beal, and concludes from their work that "The fundamental ontological shift that marks experimentalism as an achievement is that from representationalism to performativity ", so that "an explanation of experimentalism that already assumes

5005-531: The name Thee Majesty, and also a new album recorded with the band Cotton Ferox. Also, a 2005 release, Mary Never Wanted Jesus , credited to Genesis P-Orridge & Thee Majesty featured archive PTV material alongside new Thee Majesty recordings. PTV, as a rock entity, had a "final show" in 1999 at The Royal Festival Hall in London. This show also marked the end of P-Orridge's exile from the UK. With encouragement from drummer Edley ODowd of Toilet Böys , Genesis reformed Psychic TV with an all new line-up, returning to

5082-457: The pair's later work as Coil . Marc Almond of Soft Cell also contributed vocals. The live shows, such as those given at the famous Berlin Atonal festival, continued to bear improvised noise elements until Peter Christopherson left the group and Fergusson implemented new musicians. In 1986, Psychic TV began an intended series of 23 live show performances being recorded and released, each from

5159-572: The pandrogyne was the whole and we were each other's other half. Band leader Genesis P-Orridge was diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia in October 2017, and died in New York City on 14 March 2020, aged 70. Psychic TV have performed live many times in their career with an ever-changing and eclectic selection of musicians. Live releases account for about half of Psychic TV's discography and with one series of live releases they released seventeen live albums in eighteen months, enough to earn them

5236-629: The previous year. Their initial efforts at recording resulted in an EP titled Mutant Moments , released in 1980 and which was funded by a loan of £2,000 from Dave Ball's mother and made with a simple two-track recorder. Soft Cell's next recording, "The Girl with the Patent Leather Face", appeared as a contribution to the Some Bizzare Album , which included Depeche Mode , the The , and Blancmange . The duo ultimately signed to

5313-443: The punk/experimental outfit Alternative TV , with whom P-Orridge performed at one point throughout Throbbing Gristle's run. The "TV" of the band's title contributed the latter half of the name Psychic TV. Similarities can be seen in the artwork for Alternative TV and early Psychic TV releases, with a recurring pastiche on the 'as seen on TV' marketing style. Fellow ex-TG member Peter Christopherson got involved in 1982 and claimed that

5390-444: The same piece will have virtually no perceptible musical 'facts' in common". In the late 1950s, Lejaren Hiller and L. M. Isaacson used the term in connection with computer-controlled composition, in the scientific sense of "experiment": making predictions for new compositions based on established musical technique ( Mauceri 1997 , 194–195). The term "experimental music" was used contemporaneously for electronic music , particularly in

5467-465: The stage in 2003 with a concert in New York under the guise of PTV3, with a lineup including Edley ODowd, Alice Genese (bass), Douglas Rushkoff (keyboards) and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (sampler). The concert featured video projections by Sam Zimmerman ( Crash Worship ). In September 2004, an extensive tour of Europe (covering sixteen countries) and North America was launched. 2005 saw the band return to

5544-566: The studio, recording their first album in over ten years (P-Orridge also spent 2005 working with Throbbing Gristle on their first album in over twenty-five years). Additionally, a few more dates were performed in Europe throughout the year. In January 2006, a new PTV album was announced by P-Orridge on their website entitled Hell Is Invisible... Heaven Is Her/e . The album was recorded in New York and features Nick Zinner ( Yeah Yeah Yeahs ) and Gibby Haynes ( Butthole Surfers ) guesting on some tracks. P-Orridge described it as " The Dark Side of

5621-481: The term "experimental" also to describe the work of other American composers ( Christian Wolff , Earle Brown , Meredith Monk , Malcolm Goldstein , Morton Feldman , Terry Riley , La Monte Young , Philip Glass , Steve Reich , etc.), as well as composers such as Gavin Bryars , John Cale , Toshi Ichiyanagi , Cornelius Cardew , John Tilbury , Frederic Rzewski , and Keith Rowe . Nyman opposes experimental music to

5698-433: The trip. They also spent some time with Tibetan refugees, and instead of returning to the UK chose to go into "self-imposed exile". The programme was later discredited, though not before their house was raided by the police and the allegations had been repeated in the tabloid press. They said that they felt they would not get a fair hearing if they returned to England, so the family moved to California. Shortly after moving to

5775-738: The use of mixed media . Another known musical aspect appearing in the Fluxus movement was the use of Primal Scream at performances, derived from the primal therapy . Yoko Ono used this technique of expression. The term "experimental" has sometimes been applied to the mixture of recognizable music genres, especially those identified with specific ethnic groups, as found for example in the music of Laurie Anderson , Chou Wen-chung , Steve Reich , Kevin Volans , Martin Scherzinger, Michael Blake, and Rüdiger Meyer. Free improvisation or free music

5852-537: Was anticipated by several months in a lecture delivered by Wolfgang Edward Rebner at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse on 13 August 1954, titled "Amerikanische Experimentalmusik". Rebner's lecture extended the concept back in time to include Charles Ives , Edgard Varèse , and Henry Cowell , as well as Cage, due to their focus on sound as such rather than compositional method. Composer and critic Michael Nyman starts from Cage's definition, and develops

5929-420: Was favoring the term "recherche musicale" (music research), though he never wholly abandoned "musique expérimentale". John Cage was also using the term as early as 1955. According to Cage's definition, "an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not foreseen", and he was specifically interested in completed works that performed an unpredictable action . In Germany, the publication of Cage's article

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