Music:
Member Since: 26/03/2008
Band Website: last.fm/music/The+Act+of+Being+Polite
Band Members: A. Christopher Carlyle: electric guitar; acoustic guitar; bass guitar; reed organ; harmonium; synth; drum machines; laptop; mouth organ; vocals; loops; noise; samples; programming; everything else.
Influences: Iannis Xenakis; The Residents; Jandek; Sun Ra; Sonic Youth; Lee Ranaldo; Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band; Nico; Coil; Richard Youngs; Christina Carter; The Red Krayola; Bob Dylan; Leonard Cohen; Tom Waits; David Bowie; Tim Buckley; Scott Walker; Nick Cave; John Cage; Swans; Michael Gira; The Fall; The Birthday Party; Public Image Ltd.; The Dead C; Richard Wagner; Kurt Weill; Brian Jones; Skip Spence; Miles Davis; Harry Partch; Maja Ratkje; Keiji Haino; Howlin' Wolf; Bill Callahan; Polly Jean Harvey; Big Black; This Heat; My Bloody Valentine; Merzbow; The Mothers of Invention; Throbbing Gristle; The Beatles; Sun City Girls; Islaja; Johann Sebastian Bach; Deathprod; Fursaxa; The Incredible String Band; Alvin Lucier; Charalambides; Meredith Monk; Deathprod; Arvo Pärt; Popul Vuh; Kraftwerk; Silver Apples; No Neck Blues Band; TÅru Takemitsu; Richard D. James; Tod Dockstader; Autechre; Ikue Mori; Zeena Parkins; Arto Lindsay; Pip Proud..
Sounds Like: Something you'd rather not hear.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Major