Gavin Rayna Russom on Community, Spirituality and Synth Building | Red Bull Music Academy

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Multimedia artist and composer Gavin Rayna Russom has devoted her career to using synthesis and electronic production as a way to navigate and engage with social frameworks, academic ideas, gender and the realism of club culture.

In her lecture at the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp Calgary 2019, Russom retraced her steps from Providence’s DIY communities to today, reflecting on the importance of time, community and spirituality to her diverse artistic practice, and sharing the stories behind her solo and collaborative works...
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Following early involvements with rave music, DJing and the DIY underground in her native Providence, RI, Russom studied visual arts and music and began to design and build analog synthesizers, a practice that would become central to her music-making.

Moving to New York City in the late ’90s, she met Delia Gonzalez, a performance artist from Miami with whom she would go on to collaborate both musically and as part of the Black Leotard Front dance troupe. Russom’s work with synthesizers would eventually lead her to meet James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and DFA Records. She helped build much of the technology used by Murphy and the band for productions and live shows, eventually joining LCD Soundsystem in the studio and on the road. She continues to record her own music solo under a variety of aliases and in collaboration, as well as creating the visual elements of her work, from record covers to installations.

TOPICS:
5:12 - Early years in Providence and discovering electronic music
19:30 - Making as part of a social whole and studying at Bard
32:53 - New York City scene and reclaiming time
46:13 - Working with DFA and building synthesizers
52:52 - Dynamic between serious and playful music and working with James Murphy
1:22:21 - Electronic music and identity

MUSIC:
32:21 - Paper Eyes – “Synthesis Energy”
51:00 - Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom – “Relevée”

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