* Limited Edition: 100 numbered & signed copies | Hardcover Book + Exclusive 7" by Maurizio Bianchi * There are artists who document culture, and then there are artists who remake it in their own brutal image. Miguel Ángel Martín belongs firmly in the second category. For decades, this Spanish visual provocateur has been creating work that fuses aesthetic precision with social critique, building a singular universe where underground music, transgressive imagery, and razor-sharp graphic design converge into something that feels less like art and more like a manifesto written in ink and noise.
Tronix Noise Bliss is Martín's visual and sonic tribute to the pioneers of extreme music who shaped his artistic DNA. Published to coincide with his exhibition at Manusardi Studio Fotografico in Milan, this limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies represents something rare in contemporary art publishing—a book that functions simultaneously as homage, critique, and autonomous aesthetic object. The roster of artists portrayed reads like a who's who of sonic extremity across generations and continents: Luigi Russolo, Throbbing Gristle, Graeme Revell / SPK, William Bennett / Whitehouse, Esplendor Geométrico, Maurizio Bianchi, Steven Stapleton / Nurse With Wound, Jojo / Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, Le Syndicat, Entre Vifs, The New Blockaders, and Suicide.
Luigi Russolo, the Italian Futurist who in 1913 wrote The Art of Noises and built mechanical instruments to create the first systematic noise music, serves as the project's conceptual anchor—proof that the impulse toward sonic extremity has deep historical roots. From there, the lineage explodes: Throbbing Gristle dismantling the boundaries between music and anti-music, Suicide's minimalist menace stripping rock'n'roll down to its brutal essence, Whitehouse's William Bennett pushing power electronics into extreme territories. Spain's Esplendor Geométrico brought Mediterranean intensity to industrial rhythms, Graeme Revell's SPK merged industrial aggression with experimental ambition, Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound turned sonic collage into surrealist nightmare, Italy's Maurizio Bianchi crafted soundscapes that felt like transmissions from abandoned futures. The Japanese contingent—Jojo of Hijokaidan and Incapacitants—turned feedback and distortion into pure sonic violence, while the UK's The New Blockaders made even industrial music seem conservative.
Martín's graphic language is immediately recognizable—stark black and white contrasts, industrial typography, confrontational imagery that refuses to look away from the darker corners of human experience. His work doesn't illustrate extreme music so much as it embodies its spirit: uncompromising, challenging, viscerally powerful. Each page operates as a visual translation of the sonic assaults these artists pioneered, capturing the intersection between sound and image on the psycholinguistic plane. What makes Tronix Noise Bliss essential is how Martín refuses simple hagiography. These aren't reverential portraits but critical engagements—visual essays that explore the connections between music and its representations. His graphic approach mirrors the music itself: aggressive, uncompromising, intellectually rigorous, aesthetically unforgiving.
Included with each copy: an exclusive 7" by Maurizio Bianchi titled Milan Bruits. Bianchi's contribution transforms the book from documentation into active participant, making Tronix Noise Bliss both archive and living artifact. You're not just reading about extreme music—you're experiencing it, holding its physical manifestation, engaging with its aesthetic and sonic strategies simultaneously.
