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Nocturnal Emissions

December 07, 2023

This article is about the sound art group. For the biological function, see Nocturnal emission.

Nocturnal Emissions is Nigel Ayers's sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrète, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music. Their sound art has been part of an ongoing multimedia campaign of guerrilla sign ontology utilizing video art, film, hypertext and other media, particularly collage.[1] Nocturnal Emissions were depicted by the novelist Stewart Home.

Nocturnal Emissions
OriginLondon, England
GenresIndustrial, Dark ambient, post-industrial, Ambient, Experimental, Noise, Dub
Years active1980–present
LabelsSterile Records, Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Earthly Delights, Klang Galerie, Dark Vinyl, Illuminated Records, Vinyl On Demand
MembersNigel Ayers
Past membersDanny Ayers
Caroline K
Reg Sailyne
Steve Tanza
Fiona Virtue
WebsiteEarthly Delights

History edit

The project was initiated in Derbyshire in the late 1970s by Nigel Ayers (b. 1957), a former art student who, during the period, lived in London, together with collaborators Danny Ayers (b. 1964) and Caroline K (1957–2008). Since 1984 Nocturnal Emissions has continued mainly as Nigel Ayers' solo project.

Record labels edit

In 1979, Nocturnal Emissions founded Sterile Records. Sterile Records’ approach was a combination of the experiments of musique concrète and Fluxus combined with the critical eye of conceptual art and the spontaneity and energy of punk rock. The dark humour of industrial music and the incomprehensible nonsense of various ultra-leftist political fractions were an essential part of the mix. Sterile Records used both commercial and non-commercial media to deliver anti-capitalist messages, multi-coloured noise and information overload. The label was effectively dissolved in 1986, when Ayers founded Earthly Delights.[2][3][4]

In 1990–92, Nocturnal Emissions collaborated on Butoh dance performances in Europe and the United States, with the Japanese choreographer Poppo Shiraishi. Around this time Nocturnal Emissions' Situationist-influenced practice became increasingly informed by magick, stone circles, techno–shamanism, neo-paganism, animism and Fortean research. There were many collaborations on animated films by Mancunian TV director Charlotte Bill. Bill was never an official member of Nocturnal Emissions but admits to being one of the legion of members of The Fall[5]

Association of Autonomous Astronauts edit

Nocturnal Emissions were later to be associated with the Kernow section of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts[6]

Partial discography edit

  • Tissue of Lies LP (Emiss, 1981)
  • Tissue of Lies Revised CD (Dark Vinyl, 1990)
  • Fruiting Body LP(Sterile, 1981)
  • Drowning in a Sea of Bliss LP (Sterile, 1983; cassette reissued by Touch, 1985; CD reissued by Soleilmoon, 1993)
  • Viral Shedding LP (Illuminated, 1983)
  • Befehlsnotstand LP (Sterile, 1983)
  • Chaos (Live at the Ritzy) LP (Cause For Concern, 1983)
  • Dyskinesia (Sterile, 1983)
  • The Fight Goes On cassette (Staalplaat, 1984)
  • No Sacrifice 12" (Sterile, 1984)
  • Shake Those Chains Rattle Those Cages LP (Sterile, 1985)
  • Songs of Love and Revolution LP (Sterile, 1985; CD re-issue from Dark Vinyl, 1992)
  • The World is my Womb LP (Earthly Delights, 1987; Soleilmoon cassette, 1989; Soleilmoon CD, 1999)
  • Duty Experiment 1982–1984 LP (Earthly Delights, 1988; CD reissue Soleilmoon, 1995)
  • Spiritflesh LP (Earthly Delights, 1988; Soleilmoon cassette, 1989)
  • Stoneface LP (Parade Amoureuse, 1989; CD reissue from Staalplaat, 1994 with Spiritflesh)
  • Da Dum 7" (Parade Amoureuse, 1989)
  • Invocation of the Beast Gods CD (Staalplaat, 1989)
  • Beyond Logic, Beyond Belief LP (Earthly Delights, 1989)
  • Mouth of Babes LP (Earthly Delights, 1990; CD reissue from Soleilmoon, 1991)
  • Energy Exchange LP (Earthly Delights, 1991)
  • Cathedral CD (Musica Maxima Magnetica, 1991)
  • Blasphemous Rumours CD(Staalplaat, 1992)
  • The Seminal Works –12 tape box set (Earthly Delights, 1992)
  • Magnetized Light CD (Musica Maxima Magnetica, 1993)
  • The Quickening LP (Earthly Delights, 1993)
  • Glossalalia CD (Soleilmoon, 1994)
  • Holy of Holies – 4-hour DAT (Soleilmoon, 1994)
  • Binary Tribe CD (Staalplaat, 1994)
  • Imaginary Time LP(Soleilmoon, 1995)
  • Autonomia CD (Soleilmoon, 1996)
  • Friction And Dirt CD (Staalplaat, 1996)
  • Tharmuncrape An'goo CD (Soleilmoon, 1997)
  • Sunspot Activities CD (Soleilmoon, 1997)
  • Omphalos CD (Soleilmoon, 1998
  • Futurist Antiquarianism CD (Soleilmoon, 2000)
  • Collateral Salvage CD (Soleilmoon, 2003)
  • Nightscapes LP (Small Voices, 2006)

Collaborations edit

  • The Beauty of Pollution (with C.C.C.C.) (Endorphine Factory, 1996)
  • From Solstice to Equinox (with Barnacles) (Klanggalerie, 2023)

Side projects edit

Oedipus Brain Foil 3xCD (with Randy Greif and Robin Storey) (Soleilmoon, 1998)

Mesmeric Enabling Device CD (with John S. Everall and Mick Harris) (Soleilmoon, 1999)

The World Turned Gingham CD (with Robin Story, released under the name Hank & Slim) (Caciocavallo, 2000)

Transgenic CD (Solo album released under the name Transgenic) (Soleilmoon, 2000)

Selected Video works edit

Bleeding Images (1982)

The Foetal Grave of Progress (1983)

Soundtracks edit

The Three Trials – Adventures in Psychotica (Randy Greif dir.)

Books edit

  • ELECTRONIC RESISTANCE, Nigel Ayers, Amaya Publishing (Oakland, CA) ISBN 9780578978208

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Nicolas Ballet, Forward, ELECTRONIC RESISTANCE, Amaya Publishing (Oakland, CA) hardcover, ISBN 9780578978208, pp. 5-7
  2. ^ Record Collector magazine October 2011[page needed]
  3. ^ Accessed 20 January 2008
  4. ^ Interview (with Nigel Ayers) in Sounds Magazine 1983
  5. ^ David Simpson , The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain's Most Insane Group (Canongate Books, 2009), ISBN 1847671446
  6. ^ Oberhaus, Daniel (23 April 2015), "Smash the Hotels Squat the Moon", Vice, Vice.com, retrieved 24 September 2015
  • [1] 1991 EST interview - retrieved 19 September 2015
  • [2] 2011 Brainwashed interview - retrieved 19 September 2015
  • [3] 2015 Quietus interview - retrieved 18 September 2015
  • S. Alexander Reed Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music Oxford University Press USA (2013) ISBN 978-0199832606

Online references:

  • [4] Concrete Shelves interview - retrieved 28 July 2020
  • [5] For All and None - retrieved 28 July 2020
  • [6] Sounddrift - retrieved 28 July 2020
  • [7] Sounds magazine - retrieved 28 July 2020
  • [8] Art Cornwall- retrieved 28 July 2020
  • [9] Forced Exposure - retrieved 28 July 2020
  • [10] Industrial Music history - Record Collector magazine - retrieved 10 August 2020
  • [11] The Attic Mag - retrieved 28 July 2020

[12] Beyond Logic Beyond Belief - retrieved 28 July 2020

  • [13] Assimilate interview -retrieved 28 July 2020
  • [14] tape-mag archive retrieved 5 August 2020

External links edit

  • The project's web site
  • Extended discography
  • Nigel Ayers web site
  • 1982YouTube clip
  • Nocturnal Emissions at MySpace
  • Nocturnal Emissions at iTunes
  • "Electronic Resistance" book of artwork by Nigel Ayers 1980-1992

December 07, 2023
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This article is about the sound art group For the biological function see Nocturnal emission Nocturnal Emissions is Nigel Ayers s sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro acoustic musique concrete hybridised beats sound collage post industrial music ambient and noise music Their sound art has been part of an ongoing multimedia campaign of guerrilla sign ontology utilizing video art film hypertext and other media particularly collage 1 Nocturnal Emissions were depicted by the novelist Stewart Home Nocturnal EmissionsOriginLondon EnglandGenresIndustrial Dark ambient post industrial Ambient Experimental Noise DubYears active1980 presentLabelsSterile Records Staalplaat Soleilmoon Earthly Delights Klang Galerie Dark Vinyl Illuminated Records Vinyl On DemandMembersNigel AyersPast membersDanny AyersCaroline K Reg Sailyne Steve Tanza Fiona VirtueWebsiteEarthly Delights Contents 1 History 2 Record labels 3 Association of Autonomous Astronauts 4 Partial discography 5 Collaborations 6 Side projects 7 Selected Video works 8 Soundtracks 9 Books 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksHistory editThe project was initiated in Derbyshire in the late 1970s by Nigel Ayers b 1957 a former art student who during the period lived in London together with collaborators Danny Ayers b 1964 and Caroline K 1957 2008 Since 1984 Nocturnal Emissions has continued mainly as Nigel Ayers solo project Record labels editIn 1979 Nocturnal Emissions founded Sterile Records Sterile Records approach was a combination of the experiments of musique concrete and Fluxus combined with the critical eye of conceptual art and the spontaneity and energy of punk rock The dark humour of industrial music and the incomprehensible nonsense of various ultra leftist political fractions were an essential part of the mix Sterile Records used both commercial and non commercial media to deliver anti capitalist messages multi coloured noise and information overload The label was effectively dissolved in 1986 when Ayers founded Earthly Delights 2 3 4 In 1990 92 Nocturnal Emissions collaborated on Butoh dance performances in Europe and the United States with the Japanese choreographer Poppo Shiraishi Around this time Nocturnal Emissions Situationist influenced practice became increasingly informed by magick stone circles techno shamanism neo paganism animism and Fortean research There were many collaborations on animated films by Mancunian TV director Charlotte Bill Bill was never an official member of Nocturnal Emissions but admits to being one of the legion of members of The Fall 5 Association of Autonomous Astronauts editNocturnal Emissions were later to be associated with the Kernow section of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts 6 Partial discography editTissue of Lies LP Emiss 1981 Tissue of Lies Revised CD Dark Vinyl 1990 Fruiting Body LP Sterile 1981 Drowning in a Sea of Bliss LP Sterile 1983 cassette reissued by Touch 1985 CD reissued by Soleilmoon 1993 Viral Shedding LP Illuminated 1983 Befehlsnotstand LP Sterile 1983 Chaos Live at the Ritzy LP Cause For Concern 1983 Dyskinesia Sterile 1983 The Fight Goes On cassette Staalplaat 1984 No Sacrifice 12 Sterile 1984 Shake Those Chains Rattle Those Cages LP Sterile 1985 Songs of Love and Revolution LP Sterile 1985 CD re issue from Dark Vinyl 1992 The World is my Womb LP Earthly Delights 1987 Soleilmoon cassette 1989 Soleilmoon CD 1999 Duty Experiment 1982 1984 LP Earthly Delights 1988 CD reissue Soleilmoon 1995 Spiritflesh LP Earthly Delights 1988 Soleilmoon cassette 1989 Stoneface LP Parade Amoureuse 1989 CD reissue from Staalplaat 1994 with Spiritflesh Da Dum 7 Parade Amoureuse 1989 Invocation of the Beast Gods CD Staalplaat 1989 Beyond Logic Beyond Belief LP Earthly Delights 1989 Mouth of Babes LP Earthly Delights 1990 CD reissue from Soleilmoon 1991 Energy Exchange LP Earthly Delights 1991 Cathedral CD Musica Maxima Magnetica 1991 Blasphemous Rumours CD Staalplaat 1992 The Seminal Works 12 tape box set Earthly Delights 1992 Magnetized Light CD Musica Maxima Magnetica 1993 The Quickening LP Earthly Delights 1993 Glossalalia CD Soleilmoon 1994 Holy of Holies 4 hour DAT Soleilmoon 1994 Binary Tribe CD Staalplaat 1994 Imaginary Time LP Soleilmoon 1995 Autonomia CD Soleilmoon 1996 Friction And Dirt CD Staalplaat 1996 Tharmuncrape An goo CD Soleilmoon 1997 Sunspot Activities CD Soleilmoon 1997 Omphalos CD Soleilmoon 1998 Futurist Antiquarianism CD Soleilmoon 2000 Collateral Salvage CD Soleilmoon 2003 Nightscapes LP Small Voices 2006 Collaborations editThe Beauty of Pollution with C C C C Endorphine Factory 1996 From Solstice to Equinox with Barnacles Klanggalerie 2023 Side projects editOedipus Brain Foil 3xCD with Randy Greif and Robin Storey Soleilmoon 1998 Mesmeric Enabling Device CD with John S Everall and Mick Harris Soleilmoon 1999 The World Turned Gingham CD with Robin Story released under the name Hank amp Slim Caciocavallo 2000 Transgenic CD Solo album released under the name Transgenic Soleilmoon 2000 Selected Video works editBleeding Images 1982 The Foetal Grave of Progress 1983 Soundtracks editThe Three Trials Adventures in Psychotica Randy Greif dir www thethreetrials comBooks editELECTRONIC RESISTANCE Nigel Ayers Amaya Publishing Oakland CA ISBN 9780578978208See also editScratch VideoReferences edit Nicolas Ballet Forward ELECTRONIC RESISTANCE Amaya Publishing Oakland CA hardcover ISBN 9780578978208 pp 5 7 Record Collector magazine October 2011 page needed Accessed 20 January 2008 Interview with Nigel Ayers in Sounds Magazine 1983 David Simpson The Fallen Life In and Out of Britain s Most Insane Group Canongate Books 2009 ISBN 1847671446 Oberhaus Daniel 23 April 2015 Smash the Hotels Squat the Moon Vice Vice com retrieved 24 September 2015 1 1991 EST interview retrieved 19 September 2015 2 2011 Brainwashed interview retrieved 19 September 2015 3 2015 Quietus interview retrieved 18 September 2015 S Alexander Reed Assimilate A Critical History of Industrial Music Oxford University Press USA 2013 ISBN 978 0199832606Online references 4 Concrete Shelves interview retrieved 28 July 2020 5 For All and None retrieved 28 July 2020 6 Sounddrift retrieved 28 July 2020 7 Sounds magazine retrieved 28 July 2020 8 Art Cornwall retrieved 28 July 2020 9 Forced Exposure retrieved 28 July 2020 10 Industrial Music history Record Collector magazine retrieved 10 August 2020 11 The Attic Mag retrieved 28 July 2020 12 Beyond Logic Beyond Belief retrieved 28 July 2020 13 Assimilate interview retrieved 28 July 2020 14 tape mag archive retrieved 5 August 2020External links editThe project s web site Extended discography Nigel Ayers web site 1982YouTube clip Nocturnal Emissions at MySpace Nocturnal Emissions at iTunes Electronic Resistance book of artwork by Nigel Ayers 1980 1992 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nocturnal Emissions amp oldid 1177156888 Record labels, wikipedia, wiki, 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