The Painful Leg Injuries

The Painful leg Injuries are  :
Bill Byrne - Computer, Homemade Electronics, Old Instruments, Field Recordings, Gameboy, Voice and Percussion
Suzanne Byrne - Cello and Percussion

For the past five years, New York-based digital artist, Bill Byrne, has exhibited his prints and video installations worldwide. Sound has been an integral element in his artwork and in late 2004, he started recording musical compositions as the Painful Leg Injuries.
Throughout his recordings Byrne's wife, Suzanne plays cello.

In early 2005, Byrne started the Painful Leg Injuries podcast. Every week is a new chapter in an exploration of various concepts through sound art. All of the podcasts he created in 2005 are now available on his 7-CD set, Interpreting Codes Into Robust Details: The 2005 Podcasts. The podcasts have covered the many areas of Byrne's interests. Some of these include the political context of Rhythm Nation and, the data conversion of his own visual artwork into sound with Static To Noise . Also he explored the distortion of sounds through primitive recording devices and cavernous settings on Underground Chambers and Return To The Four Chambers, where he combined various cell phone and pocket memo recordings of street musicians into some genre bending compositions.

On their second full length CD-R, If The Devil's In The Details, Then How Many Details Can You Fit Upon A Match ? The Painful Leg Injuries have integrated some bold experiments into their established melodic technique to yield an album that is both more unusual and more appealing than their previous releases. Suzanne's cello appears more prominently than before in the album's opening track Every Minute of Everyday Someone Is Having An Apocalypse , a taut piece of classically inspired noise that builds to a cathartic release. Bill digs back to his hardcore roots on tracks like I Did Not Agree With the Prophets , Nothing Ever Begins, Ends or Changes that Much and It Ain't The Meat It's The Emotion , offering up a vision what Lightning Bolt would sound like if they were remixed by Nurse With Wound.  They've also integrated several new elements such as Bill's homemade Sensorlab feedback machines, field recordings, and instrumentation that include trumpet, kalimba, melodica, autoharp, xylophone, accordion, and homemade rubber band stringed instruments. Tracks such as Perfect Sunsets Admired And Forgotten continue the prettier side of Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly with a wider palette of virtual orchestration.  On A Complete Lack Of Charisma and/Or Talent they layer a simple phrase played on a variety of these instruments to yield a dense fog of strangely beautiful sounds.

In 2006, Bill and Suzanne released fifteen compositions as part of the Men In White Coats compilation.  They also recorded a 3” CD-R The Quicker Are The Encumbered for Lona Records, which will be released in early 2007.  On October 24th, 2006 they performed live for the first time at New York City's Pussycat Lounge.  Byrne has recently joined an electro-acoustic improvisation trio with John Ibarra of El Plan De Aguavodka and avant-guitarist Marco Oppedisano.

Track Info :
" Rubbing Buddha's Belly Until You Get To His Stomach " - FM3 Buddha Machine run through various effects and severe processing, with the sounds of screams from a found horror film sound effects cassette are basis for the is composition.  Just like noise, suffering is unavoidable.

" The Witches Provoked The Lion While Stuffing Their Wardrobes "  - Field recordings of the Macy's "Narnia"-themed  holiday display where visitors trigger a lion sound effect when they move close to it.  The death of the soul (if you believe in such things) occurs at this time of year.

" Knock, Knock, Who's There? The Inevitable " - A field recording of a homeless man playing the Bob Dylan song "Knocking on Heaven's Door".  When warped the song that the homeless man plays becomes less about our misdeeds at the time of death, and more about how death is inevitable.

Web : http://www.myspace.com/thepainfulleginjuries