Album: No Motive
June 13, 2018
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No Motive is an album recorded by 3 Teens Kill 4, a band that included David Wojnarowicz as well as Doug Bressler, Brian Butterick, Julie Hair, and Jesse Hultberg. By 1980, punk’s DIY aesthetic had permeated the East Village scene, and an increasing number of visual artists were experimenting with post-punk music. Wojnarowicz began exploring musical projects when he became a busboy at the nightclub Danceteria. The constant exposure to music—often performed by ad-hoc bands—prompted the artist and two friends to start their own group, naming it after a New York Post headline. Wojnarowicz did not play an instrument; he instead focused on captured sounds played from a handheld tape recorder. The low fi collaging of audio fragments contributed to the band’s distinctive sound. Though 3 Teens Kill 4 would continue in different configurations until 1987, Wojnarowicz left in 1983 to focus on his visual art.
3 Teens Kill 4, No Motive. Point Blank Records 1982, l'Invitation au Suicide 1984, remastered by Dark Entries Records 2017. Doug Bressler, Brian Butterick, Julie Hair, Jesse Hultberg, David Wojnarowicz
