Escape From Noise

by Negativland

Type: Album
Released: 4 November 1987
Label: SST
Country: United States
Length: 42:15
Community rating: 3.91/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A groundbreaking work of plunderphonics and audio manipulation, 'Escape From Noise' constructs a surreal, highly satirical narrative out of found sounds, media broadcasts, and industrial noise. Negativland brilliantly critiques mass media consumerism, religious broadcasting, and suburban paranoia through jarring, humorous tape splices. It remains an anxious, avant-garde triumph of conceptual sound collage.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, satirical, political, conceptual, avant-garde, experimental, spoken-word

Tracklist

Credits

Negativland - primary artist, cover [cover design], design [cover design], graphics, artwork [art], design
Chris Grigg - drums, synthesizer, vocals [singing], computer [computer & software], field recording [field recordings], mixed by [mix], performer [escape from noise was made by]
Alexander Hacke - featuring [with contributions from], noises [metal noises]
Das - featuring [with contributions from], voice [voice tapes], tape [voice tapes]
Dina Emerson - featuring [with contributions from], vocals [wordless vocals]
Ed Markmann - featuring [with contributions from], voice [paid voice]
Fred Frith - featuring [with contributions from], drum [urban drum], violin [halfspeed violin]
Henry Kaiser - featuring [with contributions from], guitar [doublespeed disco guitars]
Ian Allen - featuring [with contributions from], sounds [helicopter], loops [rhythm loop], bells [bell]
Ivan Stang - featuring [with contributions from], voice [larynx]
Jello Biafra - featuring [with contributions from], sounds [toilet flushing]
Jerry Garcia - featuring [with contributions from], sounds [mouth sounds], chimes
Louisa Michaels - featuring [with contributions from], vocals [singing]
Mark Mothersbaugh - featuring [with contributions from], bass [jazz bass], sounds [jimi hendrix], percussion [e-cussion], saxophone, noises
Mickey Hart - featuring [with contributions from], percussion, sounds [processed animals]
Phil Freihofner - featuring [with contributions from], sounds [bomb parts]
Rand Wetherwax - featuring [with contributions from], sounds [orchestra hits], percussion [e-cussion]
Rob Wortman - featuring [with contributions from], noises [leaf blower]
Steve Fisk - featuring [with contributions from], keyboards [optigon], voice [voice tapes], tape [voice tapes]
Tara Freedman - featuring [with contributions from], voice [voice tape], tape [voice tape]
The Residents - featuring [with contributions from], vocals [hoots], noises [clanging]
Tom Herman - featuring [with contributions from], guitar [torture guitars]
Francesca Freedman - graphics, artwork [art], design
Peter Montgomery - graphics, artwork [art], design, illustration [illustrations]
Don Joyce - illustration [illustrations], performer [escape from noise was made by], vocals [yelling, singing], tape [talking tapes], timpani [electric tympani], synthesizer, lyrics by, performer [booper bee], noises [bomb parts and assembly, noises everywhere], mixed by [mix]
Crosley Bendix - liner notes
George Horn - mastered by [disk mastering], mastering
David Wills - performer [escape from noise was made by], vocals [talking], sounds [shortwave], tape [family tape], noises [bomb parts], performer [regular booper]
Mark Hosler - performer [escape from noise was made by], vocals [singing], synthesizer [synthesizers], guitar [guitars], voice [voice tapes], tape [voice tapes], percussion [percussions], loops [rhythm loops], noises [bomb parts], performer [david manipulation], banjo [tiny metal bamjo], recorder, noises [lots of other noises], mixed by [mix]
Richard Lyons - performer [escape from noise was made by], vocals [singing], lyrics by, voice