“Rue writes that the seemingly random noises made as Calder’s mobiles clashed and clanged exist as part of a larger perception of time, where 'patterns of sound/silence create compositions cobbled from memory snapshots, with beginnings and endings given arbitrary placements'.”
A deadpan ode to selves mediated through tech surveillance (“The all-seeing eye and the second mind strike a strange alliance in a Google Portrait”) boasting groovily glitched visuals from video artist Benton C Bainbridge, Gryphon Rue’s debut single “Google Portrait” provided exactly what one might expect from a young, well connected Brooklyn artist and musician in 2016, but also something more. Heralding Rue’s ability to absorb everything around him and spit it out in slightly unexpected directions, two versions were eventually released, one an arch nod to Talking Heads and Laurie Anderson loft apartment funk, the other a woozy Lambchopesque drift, featuring Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500/Luna) on guitar and Deaf multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim signing in the video.
Subsequent releases revealed more of Rue’s ear for the familiar and the defamiliarising.
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