Rioux
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- “Cerebral yet accessible, …Rioux crafts elaborate, dream-like productions with organic instrumentation.” -- The Creatorʼs Project “Riouxʼs production swiftly glides through a number of musical movements...” -- XLR8R Erin Rioux (pronounced ree-yoo..Erin Rioux began producing music at age thirteen on a four-track tape recorder in Metro Detroit, Michigan. With two years of training on electric guitar behind him, Erin would layer guitars, speed the tapes up and down, reverse them, and overdub again. Ever since, Erin has never stopped capturing sounds and warping them beyond recognition, developing a vast body of work along his path from his hometown to Berlin and New York City. “As a kid I learned as many instruments as possible, just enough to be able to record them. A Hammond organ from the Salvation army, a French horn from a yard sale, a kalimba from an African music shop in the city––I developed an obsession with collecting these different tones to create more interesting recordings.” Erin began performing at venues he wasn’t legally allowed to enter as the lead vocalist of the post-punk group Novel Citizen at sixteen, but his development as a producer would make its greatest leap upon the discovery of Ableton Live the following year. “I was at Detroit Electronic Music Festival with my bandmates and our minds were being completely blown during a set by Audion. I googled what software he was using the next morning and pirated my first copy of Ableton immediately.” Rioux brought his analog chops to computer-based production and found his sonic identity in the process. Eager to leave his suburban environment for New York City where his heroes David Byrne and Brian Eno made history, Rioux enrolled in New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Rioux was accepted, and took on a massive debt in student loans in order to pursue his career. With his parents unable to help financially, Erin arrived in New York City with $86 to his name. Under his given last name, Erin began releasing digital records in 2010 while studying under Nick Sansano (producer of Public Enemy, Sonic Youth) and collaborating with a variety of filmmakers, artists, and musicians, including Alejandro Ghersi (Arca). His first physical release would be the audiovisual album, 'Everything You Need Is Right Here' (2011), a kaleidoscopic and eclectic debut full-length on vinyl and DVD formats. Preceding the album’s release, Rioux’s impressive multi-instrumental live shows attracted the attention of a major label A&R who offered him a 10-year 360-deal. Overwhelmed by the terms, the twenty-year-old Rioux declined and shifted focus, spending a semester abroad in Berlin studying visual art and living hand to mouth. The city and its nightlife would deeply influence his next record, 'Come On All You Ghosts' (EP, 2012). The record's single "Find The Reason", debuted on Prefix Mag and went on to make numerous year-end lists internationally and receive a preliminary round Grammy nomination for Best Dance/Electronica Single. After graduating college, Erin made a friend who would change the course of his life: a protegé of Brian Eno and Ornette Coleman named Stephon Alexander. As one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and cosmologists, Alexander became a cherished collaborator of Rioux’s, offering the unique opportunity to work on an album that would explore the inner-workings of the universe––a long-held fascination of Erin’s––on a scientific level. Over the summer of 2012, Trinidad-born Alexander and Detroit-bred Rioux began co-producing the sessions for Here Comes Now, an interdisciplinary, electroacoustic odyssey of improvisational dance music designed to reflect our cosmic infrastructure. Continuing in the spirit of bringing together innovators across disciplines, Rioux launched his multimedia party series, Connect in October 2012 at the contemporary music space, Le Poisson Rouge in New York. The series has been host to the likes of producer/performers Chrome Sparks, Chrome Canyon, Blackbird Blackbird, and Maria Minerva. Additionally the parties have becomes known to feature live visual projections by Matt O’Hare (Prism House), video installations, sculpture, and audio installations. 2013 saw Rioux play a string of SXSW dates, curate eight Connect showcases at underground Brooklyn venues––namely 285 Kent––in collaboration with manager Brandon Sanchez, release two mini-EPs via European net-label Bad Panda, and feature a work of visual art at the Venice Biennial alongside David Byrne and Laurie Anderson in the group show, ORGANIX, curated by Diego Cortez. Meanwhile, Erin finished production of Here Comes Now, which included a long-distance collaboration with No-Wave legend Arto Lindsay. While Here Comes Now lays in wait, Alexander and Rioux were invited to perform at the seminal LA series, Low End Theory with Machinedrum and Daedelus. In his first three years in the public eye, Rioux has laid the foundation for a long-term, multi-faceted career bridging the gap between pop and the avant garde. A producer/performer with both stage presence and studio virtuosity, Rioux is patiently evolving into a timeless talent. Erin’s unyielding optimism and ambition are best demonstrated in an interview with The Creator's Project: "we’re not victims of a changing music industry, but rather the ones who get to change it. It's a very exciting time for young, new ideas."̸"Trails" – 2014 'Supersymmetry' – 2013 'Spirit Calling/Miniatures' – 2013 'Come On All You Ghosts' – 2012
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