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Audio Terrorist
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Coined by the band of the same name, Audio Terrorist describes someone who is adventurous with sound. They may be unconventional, and asymetrical when it comes to the audio they create. The result is somewhat chaotic and unprofessional.
The term was introduced to the world wide web by Kalib DuArte in 1992, but was originally created by Kedar Roy several years earlier to describe the a genre of electro-acoustic music being created at San Jose State University in California. Several art noise "bands" were experimenting with sound collage performance art pieces inspired by the work of Larry Wendt's "Sadness Without Brains". "Gas Chamber Orchestra" with Ryan Torchia and Gary Singh continued to develop along the same lines, while Kalib's work blended found sounds with more conventional composition. All of the styles in the genre continued to reference and reflect popular suburban culture while disecting it.
Begun in the 1980's this work predated the rise in abject art that was to grow so popular in the early 1990's. It was this heightened awareness of abject art which set the scene for David Bowie to release his "Outside" album as a mainstream product. While many "noise band" compositions like Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" had existed before, the combination of industrial performance art, classical composition and suburban angst classified as Audio Terrorist was unique.
By the mid 1990's Kedar Roy had left the band Audio Terrorist to play traditional blues, and the group towards goth-industrial pop. The ongoing audio terrorist sounds of Kalib were shifted to a loose outfit called "Chaos Magick". At various times it included Audio Terrorist members as well as Berkeley performance artist Frank Moore of Luver.com infamy.
Ryan Torchia continues to compose and was featured at the ICMA 2003 conference.
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