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        SOCIAL INTERIORS  "The World Behind You" (XCD-029)
 
"The World Behind You" is the debut release from SOCIAL INTERIORS; a
dazzling display of musical adventure.
 
SOCIAL INTERIORS developed from interjections of local sound
commentaries amidst the presentation of  FM radio programs from
1984.  These shows featured short dialogues and cut-ups from media
and other sonic networks.
 
Since then,  SOCIAL INTERIORS became sonic thrill seekers using
decoyed and doctored sounds from many regional and global sources,
such as urban and environmental areas, sound grabs, tapes of
instrumental passages, and text bartered from musicians and
vocalists.
 
Compositions were developed through the use of recording technology.
These sound sources were welded with studio tape techniques and then
mixed into continuous and abrupt shapes for tape pieces and
performances.  The result: a surprisingly coherent soundscape for
aural navigation.
 
SOCIAL INTERIORS includes the talents of RIK RUE, tape manipulator
extraordinaire, and SHANE FAHEY, a founding member of the seminal
group THE MAKERS OF THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST.  Guest performers on "The
World Behind You" are JIM DENLY, recognized internationally as a
leading improviser on bass flute and alto saxophone, and JULIAN
KNOWLES on sample keyboard.
 
        BIO:  SOCIAL INTERIORS
 
RICK RUE
 
For Rick Rue, environmental sounds have always provided abstract and
subconscious pleasure and an inner understanding of the physical.
Since the early 1980's he has been involved in composing with
environmental and found sounds.  Utilizing analog and digital
technology in a variety of recording techniques through a wide range
of natural settings from Bushland to urban areas, he transforms
these recordings into soundscapes that have evolved into radiophonic
works, sound installation compositions and live pe rformances.  His
music is also found on solo CD and collaborative tape and CD
releases, dance and film soundtracks and other multimedia
productions.
 
His solo and collaborative works have been broadcast and performed
throughout Australia, Europe, Japan and the US.  Rik Rue also uses
"live tape" and digital manipulations in various performance
projects with Jon Rose, MIND/BODY/SPILT, SOCIAL INTERIORS, and as a
member of the contemporary Australian music group, MACHINES FOR
MAKING SENSE, where he uses sampling and the recording medium itself
as an instrument.
 
Rik Rue's most recent releases include "Voice-Capades" and "Ocean
Flows", both solo releases, and "On Second Thoughts" with MACHINES
FOR MAKING SENSE.
 
"With dangerous irony and subversive skill, he constructs hyper-rash
collision collages from appropriated noises, marauding through,
salvaging and juxtaposing the hysterical excesses of a panic
culture's electronic mass media and impacting them into frenzied,
hilarious moments of magnetic sound particles!!" -- A.M.C.
Contemporary Edition.
 
SHANE FAHEY
 
Shane Fahey was a founding member of the experimental rock group,
THE MAKERS OF THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST, who recorded 2 albums and
performed live from 1979 to 1982.  He joined fellow M Squared label
band SCATTERED ORDER to record a studio EP and album and a live
album between 1982 and 1984.  He since studied acoustics at U.N.S.W.
and has worked as an acoustic consultant ever since.  He is a member
of TENEBRAE, and has produced a series of cassette releases in
collaboration with Rik Rue as SOCIAL INTERIORS.  SOCIAL INTERIORS
have culminated their 10 year history with this CD release of their
most recent material.
 
Shane has designed and built two successful studios, namely
Megaphone Studios and Airmotion Studios, and continues to work as a
sound engineer for numerous recordings, performance and film scores.
He has also worked with Rik Rue on the soundtrack for two of Tess de
Quincey's Lake Mungo projects -- the "Body Weather" video and the
"Square of Infinity" film, which included a live performance.