Boyd Rice
| Boyd Rice | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Boyd Blake Rice |
| Also known as | NON |
| Born |
December 16, 1956 Lemon Grove, California, United States |
| Origin | Denver, Colorado, United States |
| Genres | Experimental, noise, industrial, drone |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, author |
| Instruments | Tape machines, turntables |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | Mute |
| Associated acts | Fad Gadget, Daniel Miller, Scorpion Wind, Death in June, Rose McDowall, Current 93, Adam Parfrey, Albin Julius, Radio Werewolf |
| Website | boydrice |
Boyd Blake Rice (born December 16, 1956) 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. He is profiled in RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook and Pranks! In Pranks, Rice described his experience in 1976 when he tried to give President Ford's wife, Betty Ford, a skinned sheep's head on a silver platter. In this interview, he emphasized the consensus nature of reality and the havoc that can be wreaked by refusing to play by the collective rules that dictate most people's perception of the external world.
In the mid-1980s Rice became close friends with Anton LaVey, founder and 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 his seminal Satanic Bible and Rice in several recordings.
Boyd Rice's Social Darwinist outlook eventually led to him founding the Social Darwinist think tank called The Abraxas Foundation, along with co-founder Nikolas Schreck. The organization promotes authoritarianism, totalitarianism, misanthropism, and elitism, is antidemocratic, and has some philosophical overlap with the Church of Satan. During an interview with Christian talk show host Bob Larson, Rice described the basic philosophy of the foundation as being "The strong rule the weak, and the clever rule the strong".
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