Emil Beaulieau is a noise musician who claims (and is widely believed) to be America's Greatest Living Noise Artist. Emil Beaulieau primarily records for RRRecords, a well-known noise record label. He has collaborated and performed with many of the world's best-known noise artists, including Merzbow. Beaulieau frequently performs with a custom-made four-armed turntable named the Minutoli after its creator, a friend of the artist's. Dressed in his trademark pink dress shirt, tie, and grey cardigan, Emil Beaulieau acts out extremely comical performances which few can top. Noise music is harnessed sound that can be sonically harsh, painful, nauseating, and generally undesirable under normative circumstances. ... RRRecords (based in Lowell, Massachusetts ) is a used record shop and is also one of the largest record labels specifically targeting noise styles of music. ... Merzbow is the name used by Japanese musician Masami Akita (秋田 昌美 Akita Masami) (born 1956) for most of his experimental noise records. ... A turntable is any rotating platform: a phonograph (or the platter of), for playing phonograph records (often utilised by hip hop DJs to play and mix or scratch vinyl records, such as a 45-RPM EP) a device used at some railroad facilities to turn a locomotive or other rolling...

Emil Beaulieau is also believed to have coined the term "Anti-Record" - musical records which have been treated (melted, drilled, painted, etc.) so that they become noise records. While this had been done by experimental artists for several decades, it wasn't until Emil's use that these art pieces were widely called anti-records.

Emil Beaulieau is a prominent artist on RRRecords of Lowell, Massachusetts, and is also the stage name of RRR owner Ron Lessard. RRRecords (based in Lowell, Massachusetts ) is a used record shop and is also one of the largest record labels specifically targeting noise styles of music. ...

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RRRecords, Lowell, Massachusetts (http://www.rrrecords.com)

Review of Emil Beaulieau performance in Blastitude web zine (http://www.blastitude.com/15/pg23.htm)