Rik Rue

Rik Rue (born Richard Banachowicz) is an Australian experimental musician, and sound artist, known for his audio collages in recordings and live performance.

Biography Born in Sydney in 1950 to Polish refugee parents, Rue began constructing sound collages on tape from the age of 15,

After releasing material on the Fringe Benefit label, in 1983 he created his own label Pedestrian Tapes, releasing his own and works by Michael Sheridan, Jim Denley, Jo Truman, John Gillies, Ian Hartley, Ernie Althoff and others. 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, Later he worked with performance group Gravity Feed on over 20 projects between 1994 and 2007 in Australia and Germany, Urban Theatre Projects, dancer Tess de Quincey, the group Social Interiors (with Shane Fahey and Julian Knowles), musicians David Moss, Eugene Chadbourne, Ikue Mori and released recordings on Extreme Records.

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. 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'. His video and sound work Fire and Water was shown at SNO Gallery Sydney in 2014. A number of Rue's early cassette recordings were re-released by Shame File Music from 2014. In 2018 the exhibition In-Formalism at the Casula Powerhouse, included a survey of his tape works.

Rue has multiple sclerosis and is now no longer active in performing or recording. 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)

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)