Macronympha is an American noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 group formed 1990 by Joseph Roemer and Rodger Stella in Pittsburgh, PA. Tim Oliveira Stimbox

Stimbox

Stimbox was a noise music project run by Tim Oliveira, and was one of the most established names in the American harsh noise scene. Stimbox's work is noted for its dense, psychedelic sound, usually made with closed feedback loops run through various effects units...

 and Dominick Fernow Prurient

Prurient

Prurient is the performing name of Ian Dominick Fernow. He has released material on numerous independent record labels, such as American Tapes, Hanson Records, RRRecords, Load Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Chrondritic Sound, Kitty Play Records, and his own label Hospital Productions...

 have occasionally appeared on Macronympha recordings and live performances.

A great number of their releases are in cassette format, released on various underground labels worldwide including their own Mother Savage Noise Productions. So far they have exclusively played live shows in the US.

Macronympha's trademark sound is the collage of metaljunk bashed against each other, layered and looped utilizing mostly analogue equipment. Macronympha has collaborated with many names from the noise scene, including K2

K2 (Japanese band)

K2 is the influential noise music project of Japanese musician Kimihide Kusafuka. K2's work typically consists of crashing, creaking, and scraping sounds made with pieces of junk metal, usually edited in a jarring, unpredictable style, and often accompanied by the sounds of various electronics...

, Government Alpha

Government alpha

Government Alpha is the name of the Japanese harsh noise project of Yasutoshi Yoshida , also known as S.Isabella, member of Barom One, Mecha-dote-chin & Monster DVD, who also operates his own record label 'Xerxes' out of Tokyo, Japan....

 and The Grey Wolves

The Grey Wolves

The Grey Wolves are a British Industrial music group. They were formed in 1985 by Dave Padbury and Trevor Ward.-History:The band has been credited with pioneering the 'death industrial' subgenre in industrial music. Their work has also been described as 'dark ambient' and as 'power electronics'...

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Partial discography

• Insane Torture Device (1991, Cassette)
• Physical Chaos (1992, Cassette)
• Noise Terrorism (1993, Cassette)
• Insemination Bath / Radio For The People (1994, Cassette)
• Naked Denunciation Of Infrasonic Exchange (1994, Cassette)
• Relentless Agony (1994, Cassette)
• Ultimate Vibrator (1994, Cassette)
• Grind (1995, Cassette)
• Notes From Underground (1995, Cassette)
• The Spectacle Of Ravishing Our Maidens (1995, Cassette)
• White Music (1995, Cassette)
• Ongoing Orgasm (1995, Cassette)
• Whorechestra (1995, Cassette)
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1995, LP)
• Baroque (1996, Cassette)
• Collapsing Infrastructure Part 2 (1996, Cassette)
• Amplified Humans (1997, Cassette)
• Live Constructions NYC (1997, Cassette)
• Metal Noise (1997, Cassette)
• White Album (1997, Cassette)
• New Noise Loops / Motors And Fine Art (1998, Cassette)
• Intensive Care (1998, CD)
• Membranes And Black Holes (2002, CD)
• Measuring, Monitoring, Calibrating (2006, Cassette)

External links

• http://www.discogs.com/artist/Macronympha Discogs
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• http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/5854/nympha.html&date=2009-10-25+10:55:11 Interview with Roemer