Gryphon Rue (b. New York, NY) is an artist, composer, and musician.
Elements of field recordings and sampling, analogue and digital instruments, live performance and studio work, all come together as a sum greater than its parts. If we’re throwing the names of artists around then these tracks evoke in sound the bold and playful paper creations of, say, Kurt Schwitters a century ago, a kind of Merz converted into hertz. – The Quietus
Rue’s music feels like going on a trip you may have taken before, albeit not in a long, long time … his sense of dynamics and texture revealing a finely honed craftsmanship. – Pitchfork
Rue’s album 4n_Objx is available on Bandcamp. He has previously released on Not Not Fun, Astral Editions, Tiger Sushi, and Soap Library.
Rue is a Roulette 2023-2024 Jerome Artist Resident. In 2024 he presented a new interpretation of Giusto Pio’s Motore Immobile and Ananta (with Odetta Hartman and Benjamin Katz). In 2023 he performed Clepsydra (with Susie Ibarra, Will Epstein, and Benton C Bainbridge) and Elastic Dance / Playing The Beetles (with Ka Baird and Qasim Naqvi).
His performances have spanned international venues such as Fondazione ICA Milano, Hauser & Wirth LA, de Young Museum, Vector Hack Festival, Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival, Roulette Mixology Festival, New Media Art & Sound Summit, Experimental Arts Intermedia, and many others.
His programs with Montez Press Radio include long-form conversations with sound artists and cultural figures. His video works are available through The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and collaborations with Robert Buck via Electronic Arts Intermix.
As a collaborator he performs in the audiovisual duo Rue Bainbridge, and has released North of the Future (Astral Editions) with Merche Blasco.
He has curated exhibitions, performances, and festivals for institutions and alternative spaces such as Ballroom Marfa, the Calder Foundation, Printed Matter, Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum, and D R O N E in Tribeca.
Contact: gryphonrue@gmail.com
SOLO DISCOGRAPHY
2024. 4n_Objx (Vinyl & Digital album), No Label
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 (ft. Dean Wareham & Christine Sun Kim) (single), Tiger Sushi
2015. Guilt Vacation as El Tryptophan (LP), Self-release
GROUP DISCOGRAPHY
2022. Gryphon Rue, Merche Blasco, Bergsonist, Joakim, Ruth Garbus, Jenn Grossman, Léon & Sayed, Lee Gilboa, Bryce Hackford, 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
2016. Google Portrait (ft. Joakim), (EP), Tiger Sushi
SOUNDTRACKS
2024. Endurance, (feature film) dir. Keren Cytter
2024. Queens in Queens, (short film) dir. Keren Cytter
2023. In the Spirit of Calder (feature documentary), dir. Marjoleine Boonstra
2023. SO UNREAL (feature documentary), A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (song), dir. Amanda Kramer
2023. PSYCHOTHERAPIST (short film), dir. Keren Cytter
2021. Clayton Patterson, Elsa Rensaa, and their dog Duke at 161 Essex St. (short film), dir. Sandy Rower
2019. Ballet-Object Animatics (short films), Calder Stories, Centro Botín
2018. Gropius Memory Palace, (short film), dir. Ben Thorp Brown
2012. Eucalyptus (short film), Calder Foundation
2012. Black Mobile with Hole (short film), Calder Foundation
2012. Bosquet is the Best Best (short film), Calder Foundation
MUSIC VIDEOS
2024. Shibboleth, dir. Keren Cytter
2024. Rake’s Progress, dir. Keren Cytter
2023. Watercolor Virus, dir. Benton C Bainbridge
2023. Rainbow Serpent, dir. Keren Cytter
2023. Acoustic Temple, dir. B. Wurtz
2023. Glaciermilk, dir. Dante Lentz
2023. Optical & Magnetic, dir. Taietzel Ticalos
2023. A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers, dir. Benton C Bainbridge
2023. Hologram in Prague, dir. Gryphon Rue & Taietzel Ticalos
2023. Eros, music video, dir. DataSpaceTime
2023. Grass Light on Flesh, dir. Robert Buck
2023. Emotional Agility, dir. Abigail Child
2020. Love is a Grasshopper Nearby (as Vertical Foliage), dir. Sandy Rower
2020. Chaotic Repeller Distance-Towers, dir. James Powers
2016. Beethoven for Relaxation, dir. Max Grey
2016. Insect Express, dir. Emily Pelstring
2016. Google Portrait (ft. Joakim), with Benton C Bainbridge
SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Here Come The Wormholes, with Benton C Bainbridge
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Biome, with Benton C Bainbridge
2018. Rue Bainbridge: Holocene Jitterbug,with Benton C Bainbridge
2018. LICENSE, with Robert Buck
2018. Google Portrait (ft. Christine Sun Kim & Dean Wareham), with Benton C Bainbridge
ARTIST BOOKS
2023. Dinosaur Land, edition of 20, contact Foreign & Domestic Gallery
2019. Strange Attractor, Pub. Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa (editor, author of “Elias Sime,” “Mark Lombardi,” “Douglas Ross,” and joined in conversation with Merlin Sheldrake). Contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Thomas Ashcraft, Robert Buck, Alexander Calder, Beatrice Gibson, Phillipa Horan, Channa Horwitz, Lucky Dragons, Herbert Matter, Haroon Mirza, Chloe Aridjis, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Douglas Kahn, Bernadette Mayer.)
WRITING
2024. Calder and Sound / Calder y el sonido in Tuning Calder’s Clouds, edited by Vic Brooks, Dr. Jennifer Burris, and Mariana Fernández
2021. Duchamp Coping Techniques, The Lacanian Review (issue 11, The Art of Singularities)
2021. Mission statement for arts center 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 (exhibition catalogue)
2019. Ballet-Object Animatics, in Calder Stories, Centro Botín (exhibition catalogue)
2018. Storm Tracker, 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
2013. Calder and Sound in Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion, Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (exhibition
catalogue)
RADIO
Montez Press Radio programs:
(Click here for archive on Soundcloud)
(Click here and search M.P.R. under “Gryphon Rue”)
2024: The Struggle of the Magicians: What is Italian Minimalism?
2024: Phill Niblock tribute
2022: Phill Niblock (Earmark X)
2022: Rip Hayman (Earmark IX)
2022: David Behrman (Earmark VIII)
2022: Niagara & Merche Blasco (Earmark VII)
2022: Annea Lockwood & Zach Phillips (Earmark VI)
2022. Cosmos; a Modular Circus on Strange Attractor, Short Waves / Long Distance, Co-presented by Wave Farm, Montez Press Radio, and The North American Shortwave Association.
2021: Clark Coolidge (Earmark V)
2021: Ben Vida & Mauro Hertig (Earmark IV)
2021: Max Eastley & Ruth Garbus (Earmark III)
2021: Shelley Hirsch & Charmaine Lee (Earmark II)
2021: “Blue” Gene Tyranny & Matt Marble (Earmark I)
2020: Fran Lebowitz: The Designated New Yorker
2020: Clayton Patterson: Artist & Kulturträger
2020: Gryphon Rue: Strange Attractor
CURATORIAL
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
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023. AFTER LIVES, Foreign & Domestic, New York
2022. The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York
2021. Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York
2013. Delusions, Rox Gallery, New York
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
2023. Will Epstein, Wendy LP, Fat Possum (Lyrics)
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)
