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Randy Greif was born on 25 September, 1957, is a Randy Greif is noise music composer. Discover Randy Greif's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Randy Greif is a noise music composer who often incorporates electronic music and musique concrete collage with spoken word and field recordings.

1970

Since the mid-1970s, Greif has composed electronic music, musique concrete and computer-generated music and in 1983 he started the DIY label Swinging Axe Productions (SAP) to release his own work and those of like-minded artists.

The various alias names Greif has recorded under include Screaming Dukduks and Shadowbug 4.

During the first few years of his career, only a handful of cassette-only releases were available, including those by Sound of Pig, Controlled Bleeding, Merzbow, Illusion of Safety and If, Bwana.

1985

In 1985 Swinging Axe Productions released on cassette tape a collaboration between Randy Greif and writer Alva Svoboda titled Easy Green Proof that used Svoboda's disturbing poems in which his readings were manipulated and set against electronic atmospheres.

Also released was location recordings from Papua New Guinea which featured not only indigenous music but folk stories, theater and a church meeting in Pidgin English.

This was the first of several such releases, the other two being from Amazonia and Thailand.

1987

The first album done for another label was his Bacteria and Gravity for the RRR label in 1987 on which the second side is one long piece filled with tribal rhythms, other-worldly voices and odd sounds such a bullfrog and car horn.

Shortly after this release, Greif teamed up with Mikhail Bohonus of WarWorld to form Static Effect, who performed improvisational music.

1988

In 1988 a long 8 minute track by Greif called The Rift In The Earth was selected to appear on the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine issue #20 Media Myth, which brought further international attention to his work.

1990

They toured North America and Canada and released a number of cassettes and vinyl before disbanding in 1990.

In 1990 Greif had begun work on his most ambitious project to date: a 6-hour musical and textural setting for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

The spoken text is often deconstructed into phonemes of pure sound and then returned to recognizable words.

This project took 5 years and the CDs were released serially on the Staalplaat label in special packaging.

1994

The next CD, The Barnacles Inside, also on the Staalplaat label, was released in 1994.

Although most tracks on this CD incorporate manipulated voices, there is no discernible text.

About this same time Greif began a project with Dan Burke of Illusion of Safety, which after a year of collaborating by exchanging sequences, sounds, and tapes through the mail resulted in Fragment 56.

The intention of this project was to use environmental sounds, voices, and atmospheres to create the feeling of a memory or a dream not wholly remembered.

Shortly after this release, a split CD with Greif and Illusion of Safety came out titled In Our Little Bodies.

Greif's material here was closer to song structure but that definitely does not mean conventions such as melody, choruses, and harmonies.

They are highly claustrophobic and obsessive shorter pieces, some of which again feature the voice of Alva Svoboda, sampled and manipulated.

1997

Randy Greif's Verdi's Requiem was released on the Soleilmoon label in Nov. 1997.

This is an attempt to abstract the events of Verdi's life in terms of music.

The events, however, are all imagined by Greif, and actually did not happen.

In subsequent years, Greif participated with a group called His Masters Voice (or alternately Stylus) which released a CD on Manifold and are featured on a CD from Freedom in a Vacuum / Swinging Axe called Globus and Decibel.

Greif's work also appeared on numerous compilations, notably To Step Outside And Keep Walking which has approximately 20 minutes of exclusive material.

1999

In 1999, Soleilmoon released a 3-CD set wherein Greif collaborated with Robin Storey (of Rapoon/Zoviet France) and Nigel Ayers (of Nocturnal Emissions).

This CD explores a very ambient side of their work, but retains a disturbing edge.

For one of the 3 CDs, Randy used Nigel's source material, a second was created by Robin using Randy's, and the third had Nigel using Robin's material.

Randy Greif also released a CD on Soleilmoon in 1999 under the name of Shadowbug 4, titled Tiny Voices of Love And Fear.

These lean more towards song structure, although the instrumental tracks push the limits of that definition.

The only vocals used are extremely chopped up and manipulated electronically.

2000

The long out-of-print 5-CD set of Alice in Wonderland was re-issued on Soleilmoon in 2000 with new artwork as well as a set of Alice in Wonderland trading cards that were published in conjunction with the release.

2001

2001 saw the release of Randy Greif's War of the World on Soleilmoon.

As a follow-up to his 6-hour electro-psycho adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, Greif returned to putting classic literature through the sonic meat-grinder.

This time around, though, the work was far more abstracted, and used the novel as more of a springboard for contemporary ideas relating to war—on a global level, a psychological level, and our own resistance to evolving from organic to digital beings.

Even more than the novel itself, Greif incorporated the Orson Welles radio-drama hoax to explore the realm of disinformation and scrambled information, as well as the audience reaction of fear, even to the point of suicide, when faced with the unknown.

War of the World is subtitled "an emergency broadcast" as its overall effect was to approximate the feeling of listening to radio transmissions in an emergency situation (inspired during the Northridge earthquake).

The feeling is sometimes a jumbled confusion of reports, snippets of speech with interference, electronic noises, and other mysterious bits and pieces.

Then, later, to actually meld into the emergency drama itself complete with (non-musical) soundtrack.