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Everything Put Here Was With The Best of Intentions

Amidst The Chaos There Was Ample Cohesion

No Exegesis Is Without Eisegesis

Every Minute Of Every Day Someone Is Having An Apocalypse

The Painful Leg Injuries are Bill and Suzanne Byrne . Bill Byrne is an internationally exhibited multimedia visual artist who performs wildly experimental electronic and noise music as The Painful Leg Injuries, with his wife Suzanne.

The Painful Leg Injuries are about a pure love of sound. Bill combines field recordings, homemade electronics, circuit bent toys and keyboards, classic video game sounds, warped old trumpets, guitars and accordians. He uses unusual techniques including gathering audio data from file conversions of his visual art, and sampling every day sounds on his cell phone. Suzanne plays lovely cellos drones adding a classical sense of beauty. The result is a wall of sound that is aggressive, pretty, alien and comforting. At times it will recall sci-fi and horror sound tracks and at other times droney world music.

Byrne’s compositions display a structure that channels his influences into an ulikely mix. The Painful Leg Injuries merge noise music of Wolf Eyes or the Vibracathedral Orchestra, with the pop ambience of Fennesz and Boards of Canada. Byrne believes that cacophony needs to be earned giving dynamic twists which either build to a shift or take a sudden unexpected turn.

Live, the Painful Leg Injuries deliver a wide variety of dynamic sounds. Bill performs a plate-spinning act of playing his laptop, Gameboy, trumpet, xylophone, circuit bent toys, his Tincanjo (a homemade guitar of sorts, made from an aluminum peanut can and Suzanne’s broken cello strings), ipod, while Suzanne’s cello drives the kaleidescope of sound forward. They include Byrne’s animation video art as part of their live performances.

They’ve recently released their third album The Anomaly That Had Gotten The Better of Me on OKS Recordings of North America, the label Byrne runs with longtime collaborator Jonah Goldstein. They’ve also released a 3” CD-R on Hong Kong’s Lona Records called The Quicker Are The Encumbered. In late 2007 they released a full length album as a free download with the label Noise Joy, The Forever Ending Revolutions On Autopilot. 

The Painful Leg Injuries are currently based in Austin, Texas. All of their releases are available at oksrecordingsofnorthamerica.com and iTunes.



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