Personnel:
Bill Byrne- computer, old instruments, homemade electronics, field recordings and voice
Suzanne Byrne- cello

Bio:
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. He is often joined by his wife, Suzanne, who plays cello throughout his various releases.

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 homemade electronics of Improvised Sensorlab, the political context of Rhythym Nation, the data conversion of his own visual artwork into sound with Static To Noise. Also he explored the distortion of sounds through primitve recording devices and cavernous settings on Underground Chambers, where he combined various cell phone and pocket memo recordings of street musicians into some genre bending compositions.

On Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly, his first fullength CD-R release Byrne began by integrating the organic sound of his installation work with subtle abstract melodies inspired by Brian Eno and Christian Fennesz. Byrne employs oddball techniques such as guitar played by knife, zither played with a slide, and manipulating feedback loops created by plugging analog effects processors into themselves. In his recording process, Byrne employs an ambitious array of instruments as varied as the theremin, melodica, synthesizer guitar, and steel drums. The result is a marriage of artistry and technology with as much in common with the electronic music pioneers of the 60s as his contemporaries.

In 2006, Byrne has released fifteen compostions as part of the Men In White Coats compilation. His second full-lenth CD-R, If The Devil's In The Details, Than How Many Details Can You Fit Upon A Match? sees release in late 2006. This record marks a new direction for PLI, his spacey disturbing atmospheres gets a punk rock injection, as if Lightning Bolt bought a laptop.

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