Neu! - Negativland

Negativland...I had the happiness of seeing this great band live, in 2012 at the contemporary art museum of Serralves, Porto
Mark Howard Hosler is an American musician who is a founding member of the sound art collective Negativland.

Negativland is an American experimental music group from the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. Its name was taken from a song by German band Neu! . The group's performance consists of Mark Hosler, Richard Lyons, Don Joyce, David Wills (The Weatherman), and Peter Conheim.

The Negativland have released several albums ranging from sound collage to more musical approaches or recordings of radio broadcasts, most of them through its own publisher, Seeland Records.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s they produced several albums for SST Records, most notably Escape from Noise, Helter Stupid, and EP U2.

The Negativland were sued by the U2 label, Island Records, and SST Records for using U2 sound samples, which brought them some damage and notoriety.

The group is actively against current copyright laws, having collaborated with Creative Commons in the development of new, freer licenses. All the work of the group is free of copyright.

Since 1981 the group has maintained the oldest experimental radio program in the United States, Over the Edge, a weekly program run by Don Joyce, consisting of three hours of sound collage on specific topics.

The Negativland came twice to Portugal in 2008, with It's All In Your Head FM and in 2012, with Booper Symphony, for concerts in Lisbon and Porto and for conferences at the Universities of Lisbon, Porto and Algarve.