Artist
Laughing Hands
Laughing Hands, an Australian industrial music artist active from 1980 to 2013, is known for their minimalist soundscapes and tape collage techniques.
About
In the tectonic landscape of Australian industrial music, Laughing Hands resonated with gravitational force from 1980 to 2013, their signature sound sculpted through minimalist soundscapes and textural layering, as evidenced in releases like Tape-Works 1981-1982 where the evolution of their sonic identity emerged through the sustained hum of tape collage and field recordings, a methodology that found them kindred with the likes of P16.D4 and Konstruktivists, yet distinct in their live documentations and experimental audacity, encapsulated in the raw immediacy of Nights, a pivotal release in the early 80s that captured the infinite possibilities of the cassette medium, while their diverse artistic expression also manifested through formats such as posters and magazines, each release a step towards the infinite horizon of sound, a journey mapped through labels like Adhesive and Extreme, and drawn together by the harmonic tension between their live performances and studio experiments, thus leaving an indelible mark on a scene that thrived beneath the surface yet moved with a tectonic shift.
