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Rik Rue (born Richard Banachowicz)[1] is an Australian experimental musician,[2] and sound artist, known for his audio collages[3] in recordings and live performance.
Rik Rue | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Richard Banachowicz |
| Also known as | Richard Banachowicz |
| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Experimental musician |
| Instrument(s) | sound collage, soprano saxophone |
Born in Sydney in 1950 [4] to Polish refugee parents, Rue began constructing sound collages on tape from the age of 15,[4] later encouraged by Australian painter and collage artist Carl Plate.[4] He studied part-time at the Slade School, Camden Art Centre and Royal College of Art in London.[4]
He first performed on saxophone with a number of prominent Sydney improvisers including Serge Ermoll, Jon Rose and Louis Burdett[5][4] before switching to live mixing of sampled and pre-recorded sound on audio cassette recorders including the TASCAM Portastudio, describing the relationship between the two instruments, 'The tape is improvised in a sense, by equalisation, adding timbres, adding pitch controls, the various combinations of mixing. All those areas give you a sort of phrasing not unlike saxophonists altering their embouchure, and I approach the tapes in this manner.'[6]
After releasing material on the Fringe Benefit label, in 1983 he created his own label Pedestrian Tapes,[7] releasing his own and works by Michael Sheridan, Jim Denley, Jo Truman, John Gillies, Ian Hartley, Ernie Althoff and others.[4][8] In the 1980s he was a member of the group Mind/Body/Split with Jim Denley, Sherre de Lyse, Jamie Fielding, Graham Leake and Kimo Venonen,[4] and in 1989 he co-founded the performance ensemble Machine for Making Sense with Chris Mann, Amanda Stewart, Jim Denley and Stevie Wishart, first performing at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria.[9][10] Later he worked with performance group Gravity Feed[11] on over 20 projects between 1994 and 2007 in Australia and Germany,[1][12] Urban Theatre Projects,[13] dancer Tess de Quincey, the group Social Interiors (with Shane Fahey and Julian Knowles),[14] musicians David Moss, Eugene Chadbourne,[15] Ikue Mori[16] and released recordings on Extreme Records.[17]
In 1995 his recordings were included in the exhibition Sound In Space: Adventures In Australian Sound Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney.[18] The major sound work Things Change, Things Remain The Same commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, was exhibited as part of the major contemporary art exhibition Australian Perspecta 1997: Between Art and Nature. It has been described as an 'outback road-trip of the mind'.[19] His video and sound work Fire and Water was shown at SNO Gallery Sydney in 2014.[20] A number of Rue's early cassette recordings were re-released by Shame File Music from 2014.[21] In 2018 the exhibition In-Formalism at the Casula Powerhouse, included a survey of his tape works.[22]
Rue suffers from multiple sclerosis and is now no longer active in performing or recording.[1]
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- Louis Burdett, Jon Rose, Rik Rue, Towards a Relative Music, LP (Fringe Benefit Records, 1979)
- Dave Ellis, Serge Ermoll, Peter Kelly, Jon Rose, Rik Rue, Improvisations, LP (Fringe Benefit Records, 1979)
- Rik Rue, A Raise of an Eyebrow, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1983)
- Fifi L' Amour & Rik Rue, Rue L'Amour, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1984)
- Rik Rue, Dub for St.Rita, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1984; Shame File Music, 2019)[21]
- Rik Rue, Other Voices, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes/ Calypso Now, 1984)
- Eugene Chadbourne, David Moss, Jon Rose, Rik Rue, Country Music of Southeastern Australia, LP (RRRecords, 1984)
- Rik Rue, Multisonous Mottos, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1985)
- Rik Rue, Water Works, cassette (NMA Publications, 1985)
- Shane Fahey & Rik Rue, Murmurs, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1986, as download Shame File Music, 2014)
- Rik Rue, Two Short Adventures in Water, cassette (no label, 1986)
- Rik Rue, Bend An Ear, cassette (STI/Les Ballets Mécaniques, 1987)
- Rik Rue, Eur, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1987)
- Rik Rue (as EUR), Heavy Handed, CDR (Cosmic Conspiracy Productions, 1990)
- Clay Caplice & Rik Rue, A Shift in Magnetic North, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1990)
- Rik Rue, Onomatopoeia, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1991)
- Rik Rue, The Pre Glasnost Tapes, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1991, as download Shame File Music, 2014)
- Rik Rue, Sound Escapes, LP (RRRecords, 1991)
- Rik Rue, Songs for the End of Time, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1993)
- Rik Rue, Voice Capades, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1993 - reissued on CDR and online by Alias Frequencies, 2004)
- Rik Rue, Ocean Flows, CD (Tall Poppies Records, 1993)
- Jim Denley, Ikue Mori, Rik Rue, Amanda Stewart, David Watson, Bit-Part Actor, CD (Braille Records, 1996)
- Tony Buck & Rik Rue, Come Let's Build Ourselves A City, mini CD (Algen, 1996)
- Rik Rue, Sample/Shuffle/Interplay, CD (Extreme Records, 1999)
- Rik Rue, Environmentally Yours, Limited Edition CDR, signed by the artist (no label, 2004)
- Rik Rue, Recent and Not So Recent Collage Works, CD (no label, 2004)
Radiophonic Works
- Machine for Making Sense (Rik Rue, Amanda Stewart, Jim Denley, Chris Mann, Stevie Wishart), Silence is therefore the only possible means of communication - Karl Marx 1843, (Kunstradio 1995)[23]
- Machine for Making Sense (Rik Rue, Amanda Stewart, Jim Denley, Stevie Wishart), The Twentieth Century Never Happened, (Kunstradio 2001)
- Rik Rue, Things Change, Things Remain The Same, (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1999)[24]
Compilations
- Mauro Cavallaro, John Gillies, Stephen Harrop, Ian Hartley, Rik Rue, Genuine Tape Stories, cassette (Fringe Benefit Records, 1983)
- Bleak, Browning Mummery, Rik Rue, Severed Heads, Studio Testing, Lunokhod, double cassette (Cntmprr-ydtns, 1984)
- Frog Peak Collaboration Project, double CD (Frog Peak, 1997)
- Atherton, Franklin, Hewitt, Knowles, Payne, Rue, Social Interiors, Westerkamp, space, time & the roaring silence, CD (School of Contemporary Arts, UWS, 1999)
- Lloyd Barrett, Lucas Darklord, Buttress O'Kneel, Shannon O'Neill, Rik Rue, Radio Metamix, download (Alias Frequencies, 2009)
with Social Interiors
- Social Interiors (Shane Fahey & Rik Rue), Social Interiors, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1985)
- Social Interiors (Shane Fahey & Rik Rue ), Intrusions into the Environment, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1987)
- Social Interiors (Shane Fahey, Julian Knowles & Rik Rue), The World Behind You, CD (Extreme Records, 1995)
- Social Interiors (Shane Fahey, Julian Knowles & Rik Rue), Traces of Mercury, CD (Extreme Records, 1995)
- Social Interiors (Shane Fahey, Julian Knowles & Rik Rue) Spatial Circumference, CD (Endgame, 2006)
with Mind/Body/Split
- Mind/Body/Split, Mind/Body/Split, cassette (Pedestrian Tapes, 1986)
- Mind/Body/Split, If Its Not On Its Not On, LP (Splitrec, 1989)
with Machine for Making Sense
- Machine for Making Sense, On Second Thoughts, CD (Tall Poppies Records, 1994)
- Machine for Making Sense, Talk Is Cheap, CD (Splitrec, 1997)
- Machine for Making Sense, Dissect The Body, CD (Splitrec, 1998)
- Machine for Making Sense, Consciousness, CD (Splitrec, 1999)
- Machine for Making Sense, The Act Of Observation Becomes The Object Itself, CD (Rossbin, 2006)[25][26][4]
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