Rik Rue
Rik Rue builds music from tape manipulation, analogue and digital samples, and close field recording. Rockpools and tidal motion become extended soundscapes; elsewhere his electronics lock into dense, interlocking textures with voice, winds and strings.
On Ocean Flows he stays near the water, gathering coastal sea motions into three long pieces that turn intimate rockpool detail and open tide into full dramatic scenarios. As a performer he threads samples and tape through free improvisation with Stevie Wishart and through the short, lettered sequences of Machine for Making Sense, where voice, text, hurdy-gurdy, winds and live electronics sit in startling, highly textured weave rather than song form. His own compositions, including Three Nocturnal Windows and A Longer View, and the collaborative Heavy Industry, place that same ear for grain, duration and sudden colour inside chamber and electronic programmes. The work is physical, closely recorded and built for listening that wanders.
Rik Rue is featured on the following titles
Ocean Flows
Rik Rue clambered around Sydney’s seaside rockpools in the early morning to gather the material for this recording. Intimate, sometimes funny and spectacularly well captured, the sounds build an entire dramatic scenario from a complex web of sonorities.
Performing as Machine for Making Sense
Machine for Making Sense is an Australian performance ensemble whose five players weave voice, text, winds, violin, hurdy-gurdy, live electronics and tape into dense interlocking textures rather than conventional song forms.
Machine for Making Sense: On Second Thoughts
Twenty-six short pieces lettered A to Z. By 1994 Machine for Making Sense had toured worldwide for several years. The five players weave dense, highly textured material that fuses music and text in startling ways.
Compositions by Rik Rue also appear on
A Day in the Life of a Clarinet
Peter Jenkin presents the clarinet in its many modern guises, equally at home with Alban Berg, multi-tracked Bach, klezmer, tango, jazz and electronics.
Watt Ever
Electronic music drawn from twenty years of WATT concert presentations. Australia’s only organisation regularly staging audio-visual and electronic works, WATT gathers tape, computer and live-electronic pieces spanning that period, bringing several composers to CD for the first time.
Windows in Time
austraLYSIS is the brainchild of Roger Dean, and exists in several incarnations, including a live electronics band. Here they are in their standard chamber music format and have chosen a programme in which the linchpins are Xenakis and the music of New Zealand composer Lyell Cresswell.
Rik Rue also appears on
Wish
Best known for her work with the medieval ensemble Sinfonye, Stevie Wishart is also a scintillating improviser. Here she gathers long-time collaborators for an unusual set of free improvisations and studio pieces.
Rik Rue is a member of
Machine for Making Sense
Machine for Making Sense is an Australian performance ensemble whose five players weave voice, text, winds, violin, hurdy-gurdy, live electronics and tape into dense interlocking textures rather than conventional song forms.