RUSSELL, BRUCE - Gilded Splinters: Essays And Aphorisms Towards An Aesthetics Of Noise

"A collection of five essays written by Mr. Russell during 1994-2004. Bruce Russell has spent the last 20 years refining a unique approach to musical practice which owes much to more esoteric disciplines such as sound art, free noise improvisation and electro-acoustic composition. Coming from a rock background, he has broadened his interests, methods and arsenal of techniques to include practices and approaches to sound that have moved him to a position outside any musical mainstream one could care to name. At the same time he has done much to network like-minded New Zealand artists, and to actively promote these artists in the international music scene. He is now a minor but firmly established fixture in the international improvisation underground, known both for his own work and that of his label, Corpus Hermeticum. He performs regularly with the Dead C., A Handful of Dust, and as a solo artist. He also writes criticism and theoretical essays, some of which are compiled here." - Slow Toe.