Don Joyce (musician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American musician
Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1944
Place of Birth: Keene, New Hampshire, United States
Date of Death: 22-Jul-2015
Profession: radio personality
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Don Joyce (musician)
- 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.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.
- 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.
- 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.In 1984 he coined the phrase culture jamming.
- 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 .
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- directs the public viewer to a consideration of the original corporate strategy.
- The studio for the cultural jammer is the world at large. Death: Joyce died of heart failure in Oakland, California on July 22, 2015 at the age of 71.
- He was cremated, and the band packaged two grams of his remains with the first 1000 CD copies of Negativland's 2016 album The Cutting Edge Vol.
- 9: The Chopping Channel.
- 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.
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