Merzbow
Japan, 1979–now
Japanese noise musician Masami Akita, named after Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau. He has released several hundred albums of dense, saturated electronic noise.
MusicRoots documents 2 artists who influenced Merzbow and 0 artists Merzbow influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.
Who influenced Merzbow?
- Luigi Russolo — Akita has named Russolo's Art of Noises the ancestral manifesto of his practice — noise as autonomous art, a century on.
- Throbbing Gristle — The first industrial wave reached Tokyo through TG's records — the documented catalyst of Akita's turn to pure noise.