Don Joyce (musician)
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Donald S. Joyce (February 9, 1944 – July 22, 2015) was an American musician who was a member of the experimental music group Negativland. He also hosted a weekly radio program called Over the Edge on the Berkeley, California, radio station KPFA, for more than 30 years.[1]
Joyce was born in Keene, New Hampshire. Originally a visual artist, he earned a master's degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design before moving to the Bay Area, where he lived most of his life. Joyce began his Bay Area radio career in the 1970s at KALX, where he worked as an on-air programmer, and produced station IDs, promotional spots and other continuity. At KALX, he produced a weekly summer replacement program for the news called The Alternative News, featuring fictional news stories. The last episode of The Alternative News included the eco-revolutionary character Thunderman, which led to his producing a multipart serial called Thunderteam for KPFA.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
While working at KPFA hosting a more mainstream type music show, he encountered Ian Allen and other members of Negativland. Don was a master at tape editing and he began developing his sound collage techniques using radio and television broadcasts captured on tape and blending them into layered mixes, each with a unique theme.[2][3] Heavily influenced by Bob and Ray and the Firesign Theater, Joyce developed a number of continuing characters whom he would portray in the more theatrical episodes of Over The Edge.[3][4]
In 1984, he coined the phrase culture jamming.[2] Using his alter ego, cultural reviewer Crosley Bendix, he presented an explanation of culture jamming and its importance on the 1984 album Over the Edge Vol. 1: JAMCON'84:
As awareness of how the media environment we occupy affects and directs our inner life grows, some resist. The skillfully reworked billboard . . . directs the public viewer to a consideration of the original corporate strategy. The studio for the cultural jammer is the world at large.[5][6]
Death
Joyce died of heart failure in Oakland, California, on July 22, 2015, at the age of 71.[7][2] He was cremated, and the band packaged two grams of his remains with the first 1000 CD copies of Negativland's 2016 album Over the Edge Vol. 9: The Chopping Channel.[8] 750 of his O.T.E. and live show Fidelipac audio carts were also sent along with those ashes. Don's remains became a viral story on the internet.[9]
Following Joyce's death, filmmaker Ryan Worsley directed an 80-minute documentary, How Radio Isn't Done, featuring surviving members of Negativland as well as archival footage of Joyce himself.[10]
Over the Edge continues on KPFA, hosted by Jon Leidecker and Robert "KrOB" Cole.[11]
References
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- ↑ a b c Kory Grow, Don Joyce, Negativland Sound Collagist and Radio DJ, Dead at 71. Rolling Stone, 2015-07-23.
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- ↑ Ned Raggett, Don Joyce, radio maverick and member of Negativland, dies at 71. SFGate, July 23, 2015.
- ↑ Don Joyce as Crosley Bendix, "Crosley Bendix Reviews Jam Art and Cultural Jamming." JamCon '84, track 2. CD release on Seeland Records 004, 1986.
- ↑ Mark Dery, The Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax. New York Times, 1990-12-23.
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- ↑ Dan Weiss, Why Negativland Packaged Late Bandmate's Remains With New LP. Clrvynt, December 9, 2016.
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External links
- Interview with Don Joyce from Some Assembly Required blog (August 2009)
- A few words on Don Joyce, by Jon Leidecker, a fan, a friend, and long-time collaborator
- Interview with Don Joyce from Perfect Sound Forever (June 2000)
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- 1944 births
- Negativland members
- 2015 deaths
- People from Keene, New Hampshire
- American experimental musicians
- Musicians from New Hampshire
- American radio personalities
- Rhode Island School of Design alumni
- Rhode Island School of Design alumni in music