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Boris Policeband (a.k.a. Policeband & a.k.a. Boris Pearlman a.k.a. Mark Perelman) was a

violist from New York City
.

Life and work

1979 Boris Policeband 7" recording: Stereo / Mono

Boris Pearlman joined proto

scanner and recited their chatter while he accompanied himself on electric violin.[citation needed] Boris was fascinated by cop culture and the often prosaic and sometimes poetic reality of law enforcement chatter.[citation needed] Over the years the cop-talk and violin-screech coalesced into discrete songs that at times recalls the dissonant violin playing of the Fluxus artist Henry Flynt.[citation needed
]

In 1978 Sylvère Lotringer conducted a one-page interview with Policeband (with a one-page photo) in Columbia University's philosophy department publication of Semiotext(e) called Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book.[4]

In 1979 Boris Policeband released a 7" recording called: Policeband: Stereo / Mono that was produced by artist Dike Blair. He also appears with two tracks on the no wave recording New York Noise Vol. 3 that was released in 2006.[5]

His live noise music performances were extremely loud/edgy aggressive/dissonant, and even though most songs were under a minute long and a set rarely exceeded 10 minutes, Boris could quickly empty a room. That was something he took pride in.

He appears in the film that

super-8 the film captures the gritty look and sound of the music scene during that era. In 2013 it was exhibited at Salon 94, an art gallery in New York City.[6]

Boris, a self-proclaimed

repartee
and/or swapping insults with other club goers.

Boris ended Policeband in the mid-80s to pursue classical viola.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Masters, Marc. No Wave. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007, p. 204
  2. ^ "Real Vinyl History: Jack Ruby". 29 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Real Vinyl History: Jack Ruby". 29 February 2016.
  4. ^ Sylvère Lotringer & David Morris (Eds), Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book, Semiotext(e), 1978, re-published in 2013, pp. 64-64
  5. ^ Various – New York Noise Vol. 3, Soul Jazz Records – SJR LP 147
  6. ^ "COLEEN FITZGIBBON AND ALAN MOORE: X MAGAZINE BENEFIT COLAB 1978, 2009". Archived from the original on 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
  7. ^ Sylvère Lotringer & David Morris (Eds), Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book, Semiotext(e), 1978, re-published in 2013, p. 64
  8. OCLC 972429558
    .

References

  • Carlo McCormick, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, Princeton University Press, 2006
  • Masters, Marc. No Wave, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007
  • Sylvère Lotringer & David Morris (Eds), Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book, Semiotext(e), 1978, re-published in 2013, pp. 64–64

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