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Boyd Rice (born 1955) is an American experimental sound artist, archivist, actor, photographer, prankster and writer best known for his pioneering industrial noise music under the name NON.

As a teenager, Rice started cre

Boyd Rice (born 1955) is an American experimental sound artist, archivist, actor, photographer, prankster and writer best known for his pioneering industrial noise music under the name NON.

As a teenager, Rice started creating noise in 1975 out of an interest in tape machines and bubblegum pop with female vocalists such as Little Peggy March and Ginny Arnel. Originally creating recordings for his own listening, he started to do performances, and eventually press records. He began creating simple noise loops from his collection of bubblegum pop recordings, and soon Non was born; he reportedly selected the name Non because "it implies everything and nothing." One of his earliest efforts consisted entirely of a loop of every time Leslie Gore sang the word "cry".