Gryphon Rue nyadiakeun single na video pikeun "Rake's Progress" ti LP anyarna 4n_Objx - a burst nu teu bisa diwanohkeun kreatifitas ti hiji seniman nyaring urang sadia ti dina 2022 A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers. "Rake's Progress" video ieu diarahkeun ku Keren Cytter sarta ngagambarkeun penari Nathlie Provosty, anu magnetically mirrored beats propulsive jeung squelchy synch chaos tina tune.

Tempo video di dieu.

Texturally complex and rhythmically bold, Gryphon Rue's enigmatic full-length 4n_Objx naon nyimpen ku hiji rasa of the depth. Ti drones amazingly rich – – woven out of harmoniums and oscillators – to tactile, live percussion and pulsing synths, nu sapuluh track nu ngawengku 4n_Objx care, pulsa, jeung leap ti cliff to ridge, circuit to synapse.

Rue mangrupakeun komposer, artis interdisipliner, jeung kurator - jeung ieu musik diwangun dina fascination jeung potensi mimétis tina bunyi, "kekuatan maranéhanana pikeun nyarankeun aksi biologi atawa acara molekular, "Rue nyebutkeun.

<pfseg id="0">Aya hiji jenis cyberpunk rasa di dieu, teu dina cara nostalgia, tapi dina cara anu novel awal William Gibson nyambungkeun biologi jeung sintétik sakumaha both threatening and undeniably sexy. Faktangna, Rue nyebutkeun, "Ina ditarik kana musik nu interphases sumber akustik jeung éléktronik, abstractions of all media that suggest creaturely behavior." Quique.

"Rake's Progress" mangrupakeun adegan jahat nu ngarasakeun ka konsekuensi nu nyaéta "Dividend". Aya rasa gravitasi dina musik ieu. "The World's Fastest Talking Man" ngancurkeun - - jeung lajeng ngalakukeun - ngamimitian kana lalampahan steady na ngadeukeutan Negativland atawa Terry Riley. 4n_Objx is on the whole syncretic. It grafts and fuses; it is dance music –– if by dance, we might describe the movement of electricity through the brain, fireflies through the night, or fluids through the body. Roughly hewn field recordings spark along channels of finely polished sound throughout 4n_Objx, all folded together by a wild but sophisticated sense of rhythm which will appeal to fans of African Head Charge, CAN’s Future Days, or Roberto Musci’s Tower of Silence.

This is not techno and Rue is not a DJ. Yet the gestures of live mixing feed what Rue calls “elastic dance” – a broader look at left-field dance, nervy grooves with a post-punk aesthetic. These alchemical objects remind us of the moments when punks like Lizzy Mercier Descloux or Liquid Liquid picked up bric-a-brac percussion. In the 90s, Rue was a kid regular at his grandfather’s warehouse Club Vinyl in New York, where he spent time in the DJ booth, eyes fixed on dancefloor heavyweights like Danny Tenaglia and Timmy Regisford.

But such gestures are only parts of a whole, its total shape something like a collaged spiral. Rue’s ability to variously juxtapose, layer, and fuse disparate elements into staggering cohesion suggests, in fact, that no object is truly foreign.

“Auscultation” began with recordings of the sounds emitted by Rue’s own stomach and “Operation for Preferred Embodiment” began with recordings of his father’s voice. “I wanted to transform the voice into an aeolian instrument,” Rue says. The inclusion of these organic, perhaps sentimental elements is, of course, more than novelty. “My music,” says Rue, “is about possession, nourishment. For me it provides a source and space of good work which is a refuge from externalization, from dispossession.” This statement speaks to the depths of Rue’s thinking about his work and the sensitivity of his execution. 4n_Objx is none of the things it appears to be; for that to be the case, it would have to be reduced, externalized. But like the poetry of John Ashberry (one of Rue’s idols), it resists this, reveals itself through mimesis and interplay, dense and shifting.

<pfseg id="0">Rue geus rekaman pikeun Astral Editions, Not Fun, Soap Library, CAMP editions, jeung Tiger Sushi sarta geus kolaborasi jeung Ka Baird, Qasim Naqvi, Bergsonist, Merche Blasco, Dean Wareham, Susie Ibarra, Valentina Magaletti, sarta loba séjén. Ayeuna anjeunna geus tampil di Fondazion ICA Milano, Experimental Intermedia, de Young Museum, Roulette Mixology Festival, Hauser & Wirth, jeung séjénna. Anjeunna geus nyadiakeun presentasi di Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Kunstsammlung Düsseldorf, sarta ngatur paméran pikeun Ballroom Marfa jeung The Calder Yayasan di lokasi non-tradisional kayaning hiji zona konstruksi dihentikeun jeung hiji refectory neo-Gothic. Anjeunna boga hiji paméran biasa

- Mark Trecka

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