• About
  • Music
  • Calendar
  • Video
  • GROUPS
    • Gryphon Rue & Merche Blasco
    • Rue Bainbridge
    • Vertical Foliage
  • Publications
    • Strange Attractor
  • Curation
    • D R O N E
    • Clayton Patterson: Beauty Mark
    • Strange Attractor
    • Symbol Rush
    • They might well have been remnants of the boat
    • Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap
  • Notation
    • Negators Tract Tar, a Modular Circus on Strange Attractor
    • Storm Tracker, for Wind(s)

Gryphon Rue (b. New York, NY) is an artist, composer, and musician.

Rue’s music, constructed of complex patterns derived from instruments such as bowed hand saws, harmonium, and custom synthesizers, discloses a fascination with mimetic potential—the ability to suggest biological actions, molecular events, possession, nourishment—and is above all, made with people’s pleasure in mind.

A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (Not Not Fun Records) features videos by collaborators Keren Cytter, Abigail Child, B. Wurtz, Benton C Bainbridge, Dante Lentz, DataSpaceTime, Robert Buck, and Taietzel Ticalos.

Rue performs and releases music with composer and instrument designer Merche Blasco, and the audiovisual duo Rue Bainbridge.

Rue hosts Earmark, a program of long form conversations with composers and sound artists on Montez Press Radio.

Rue’s artist book Strange Attractor (pub. Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa) explores the uncertainties and poetics of networks, environmental events, and sound. Among its contributors are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Channa Horwitz, Bernadette Mayer, Haroon Mirza, Beatrice Gibson, Lucky Dragons, and Merlin Sheldrake.

In 2021 Rue organized exhibitions and events at D R O N E (drone1hudson.com) and Printed Matter/St Marks (Buddhist Bubblegum: Esoteric Buddhism in the Creative Process of Arthur Russell and Clayton Patterson: Beauty Mark).

Rue’s videos are distributed by The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and videos with Robert Buck via Electronic Arts Intermix.

Rue is a recipient of a Roulette 2022-2023 Commission, made possible with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation; and performs internationally at venues such as de Young Museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Hepworth Wakefield, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Shigeko Kubota Foundation, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Roulette Mixology Festival, New Media Art & Sound Summit, Kathy Acker Awards.

gryphonrue@gmail.com

SOLO DISCOGRAPHY

2022. A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (Cassette & Digital album), Not Not Fun
2020. Foliage of Caves (Cassette & Digital album), Soap Library
2018. Google Portrait (folk version ft. Dean Wareham) (single), Tiger Sushi
2016. Google Portrait (pop version ft. Joakim) (EP), Tiger Sushi
2015. Guilt Vacation as El Tryptophan (Vinyl LP), Self-released

GROUP DISCOGRAPHY

2022. Gryphon Rue & Merche Blasco, Resounding: North of The Future (Cassette & Digital album), Tiger Sushi
2021. Gryphon Rue & Merche Blasco, North of The Future (Cassette & Digital album), Astral Editions
2020. Vertical Foliage, Love is a Grasshopper Nearby (Digital album), CAMP Editions

RADIO PROJECTS

2022. Cosmos; a Modular Circus on Strange Attractor (audio drama), Short Waves / Long Distance, Co-presented by Wave Farm, Montez Press Radio, and The North American Shortwave Association.
2021– Earmark, a program of long form conversations with composers and sound artists on Montez Press Radio

FILM & VIDEO

2021. Clayton Patterson, Elsa Rensaa, and Duke (161 Essex Street, 1987, finished 2021)
2020. Love is a Grasshopper Nearby, music by Vertical Foliage, 3:06, black and white, stereo sound, 16 mm
2020. Chaotic Repeller Distance-Towers, dir. James Powers, 4:22, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Here Come The Wormholes, 5:12 min, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Biome, 3:33 min, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video
2018. Rue Bainbridge: Holocene Jitterbug, 7:59 min, color, UHD video, stereo sound
2018. LICENSE, with Robert Buck, 11:50 min, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video, distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
2018. Google Portrait, with Benton C Bainbridge, Series of Digital Media HD videos in Singular Editions, silent, running times vary
2018. Google Portrait (ft. Christine Sun Kim & Dean Wareham), 4:20 min, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video
2016. Google Portrait (ft. Joakim), pixel painting by Benton C Bainbridge, 4:20 min, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video
2016. Beethoven for Relaxation, dir. Max Grey, 2:58, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video
2016. Insect Express, dir. Emily Pelstring, 3:25, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video. Screenings: Ottawa International Animation Festival (honorable mention for Best Canadian Animation), Feinaki Animation Week, Beijing, Bad Women, Bad People Gallery, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022. The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York
2021. Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York
2013. Delusions, Rox Gallery, New York

SOUNDTRACKS

2018. Gropius Memory Palace, Ben Thorp Brown, World Premiere: Saint Louis Art Museum, European Premiere: International Film Festival Rotterdam, North American Premiere: New York Film Festival
2012. Eucalyptus (1940), Black Mobile with Hole (1954), Bosquet is the Best Best (1946). Calder Foundation website, filmed by King & Partners

TEXTS & PUBLICATIONS

2021. Duchamp Coping Techniques, The Lacanian Review (issue 11, The Art of Singularities)
2021. The Location of Serenity, mission statement for D R O N E, New York
2021. Clayton Patterson: Beauty Mark, Printed Matter at Swiss Institute, New York
2020. Calder & Varèse excerpted from Calder and Sound, in Sounds Lasting and Leaving,
Luxembourg & Dayan (digital exhibition catalogue)
2019. Strange Attractor (editor, with texts on Elias Sime, Mark Lombardi, and Douglas Ross, and a conversation with mycologist and author Merlin Sheldrake); also includes contributions and dialogues with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Thomas Ashcraft, Robert Buck, Alexander Calder, Beatrice Gibson, Phillipa Horan, Channa Horwitz, Lucky Dragons, Herbert Matter, Haroon Mirza, novelist Chloe Aridjis, economic sociologist Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Douglas Kahn, and poet Bernadette Mayer. Pub. Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa
2019. Ballet-Object Animatics, in Calder Stories, Centro Botín (exhibition catalogue)
2018. Storm Tracker (score), in Dis-assemb-blies 08, Will Work For Good (magazine)
2018. Calder y el sonido in Alexander Calder: Teatro de Encuentros, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (exhibition catalogue)
2014. PostcART: Jay Miriam, Contemporary Lynx (online magazine)
2013. Calder and Sound in Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion, Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (exhibition
catalogue)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2021. Buddhist Bubblegum: Esoteric Buddhism in the Creative Process of Arthur Russell, Book launch for author Matt Marble and performance by Singing Tractors, Printed Matter/St Marks, New York
2021. The Location of Serenity, D R O N E, New York
2021. Clayton Patterson: Beauty Mark, Printed Matter/St Marks, New York
2019. Calder Stories, Curator & editor of music for animated ballets,
Centro Botin
2017. Symbol Rush, Clayton Gallery and Outlaw Art Museum, New York
2017. Strange Attractor, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2016. The Sump (now H0L0) event series, New York
2016. Performances of Earle Brown’s Calder Piece, 1963–66, Curator.
Calder Foundation, Earle Brown Foundation, Talujon Percussion Quartet, Friends Seminary, New York
2015. Eureka, sound installations. Pace Gallery, New York
2013. They might well have been remnants of the boat, Calder Foundation, The High Line Hotel, New York
2012. Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, Calder Foundation, The Mckittrick Hotel, New York

PRESENTATIONS

2021. Calder’s Music: How The Mobile Changed The Sonic Arts, Calder-Picasso, de Young Museum, San Francisco
2019. Calder and Sound, Index Festival, The Hepworth Wakefield, England
2019. Panel discussion, The Lacanian Unconscious: A No-Brainer, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York
2018. Calder and Sound, Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
2018. Rue Bainbridge, Center for Visual Music Symposium, Sonoma State University
2018. Playing The Beetles, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Utrecht
2013. Calder and Sound, Avant-Garde in Motion, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

SELECT PERFORMANCES 

2021. Rue Bainbridge: Wintering, de Young Museum
2020. Rue Bainbridge: I’ll Wear a Mask For You, New Media Art & Sound Summit
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Mixology Festival, Roulette, Brooklyn
2019. Rue Bainbridge, Index Festival, The Hepworth Wakefield
2019. Rue Bainbridge, Pace Gallery, New York
2019. Kathy Acker Awards, Theater for the New City, New York
2019. Rue Bainbridge: Woolgathering Continuum, Hauser & Wirth LA
2018. Rue Bainbridge, Shigeko Kubota Foundation, New York
2017. Take Off Festival with Wouter van Reek, Amsterdam
2016. Festival Hongerige Wolf, Groningen
2014. i = u festival, Brooklyn, NY
2013. Ensemble piece Vertical Foliage Orchestra in Calder Foundation’s They might well have been remnants of the boat, Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, New York
2012. Ensemble piece Playing The Beetles ft. Dave Nuss (NNCK), Gabrielle Herbst, Aaron Moore, Daniel Fishkin, Odetta Hartman, in Calder Foundation’s Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, Mckittrick Hotel, New York
2008. Concert and Awareness Tour with Peter Yarrow, Vietnamese cities and provinces to uplift and raise money for victims of Agent Orange

RESIDENCIES

2019. Rue Bainbridge: Andrew Freedman Home, New York
2019. Rue Bainbridge: CultureHub, New York
2017. Rue Bainbridge: Public Works Department, Governor’s Island, New York
2016. Gryphon Rue: NDSM Treehouse, Amsterdam

GUEST APPEARANCES

2019. Eliot Krimsky, Wave in Time LP, Pretty Purgatory (Singing saw)
2018. Dean Wareham Vs. Cheval Sombre LP, Gotta Groove (Singing saw)
2016. High Water, Crush LP, Other People (Lyrics, guitar)
2012. Odetta Hartman, Tally Marks EP, Self-released (Singing saw)

OTHER COLLABORATIONS

2018. Sharon Gal, Feel the Noise, for large ensemble of electric guitars
2014. Christine Sun Kim & Thomas Benno, Busy Day, Droit de Cités
1997. Gail Gilbert, Folding Time, Thread Waxing Space, New York

HOMEPAGE

Music by Vertical Foliage, Love is a Grasshopper Nearby, CAMP Editions, 2020. Film distributed by Film Makers’ Cooperative.

Big Apple Circus, New York City, 1987

Les Casaly (Guillaume Dufresnoy and Mireille Fenwick), casting cradle
Clown Gordoon, with snake puppet
Dolly Jacobs, aerialist in the rings
Robbie Libbon, performance director in tuxedo
Michael Christensen, clown escorting Dolly Jacobs out of the ring
Anna May, elephant
Ben Williams, elephant trainer
Paul Binder, ringmaster
Vanessa Thomas, riding Anna May

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