ruse is the name taken by Russell Pearce. Starting as a feedback obsessed guitarist, Russell has moved away from traditional instrumentation to working primarily with captured sounds to develop a palate of sounds which open up the listener to the potent sounds which surround them every day. Some are familiar, some are treated, and some are captured from sources which are not naturally available to the ear. These become the elements used to describe the connections we establish to the inanimate, the functional, and those causal aspects of life which we take for granted, but which have only been with us for the last few generations.
Though purely soundscapes, what may on the surface appear cold, is really a positive vision of hope and improvement, in a world becoming obsessed with fear and disease.
Currently available:
Love song 1 - 11/radar, a split 10inch release with Andrew Liles, 2002.
"Spectra", an album of drones based on the the root frequencies
and
intervals of the visible range of the electro magnetic spectrum is available
to stream
"panlanka
- from the mountain to the sea" - cdr is now available for order
a trip to Finland to watch the northrn lights has been documented in "saariselka"
and an album of snippets, captured sounds, guitar produced noise and aural
doodles
is available by podcast in the
future.
A blog and more material from ruse can be found at www.consumptive.co.uk
