RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON

Raymond Salvatore Harmon (born April 7, 1974) is an American media artist, painter, and filmmaker. As a graffiti artist Harmon has used the tags BETA (1994–2001) and RSH (2001–current). His street work has appeared in Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, New York, Brooklyn, London, Berlin, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zagreb among others.

REINHART HAMMERSCHMIDT

RENè LUSSIER

RICCARDO FABIANI

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RITA LUCARELLI

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Rita Lucarelli
Professor at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World -University of Bonn

RMEDL

Alias: SG

doom / sound sculpture / photography / video art / visual art / avant jazz / spoken word / musique concrete / performative art / sound installation / modern composition / psychophonia / electronic voice phenomena (evp) / transcommunication / esoteric / black metal / ambient music / acousmatic / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / anti records / concrete turntablism / noise / dark ambient / contemporary art / nonmusic / constructivism / abstract expressionism / conceptual art / drone music

RMEDL | RADICAL MATTERS EDITIONS LABEL

RMEDL | METASOUND

Meta-Curatorial Practices Platform RM-ED/L | META-SOUND is a inner organization of RM/ED/L, constituted for the experimentation of conceptual/projectual methodologies for the production, communication and development of contemporary art events connected to the art of listening/sound art, through the construction of meta-curatorial artistic practices focused on extreme, transgressive, unorthodox, experimental and avantgardistic music researches, linked to many fields of human expressions and media art involved in new kinds of languages and settings of the communication. Its a freelancer based startup organisation conceived as a meta-curatorial platform that deals in design of independent ways of practice of curating, based on the development of conceptual sound art researches, environmental music, audio-visual installations and extra-acoustic experiences, close to visual and performing arts, joined to unconventional and "extended" techniques of production for multidisciplinary projects, conceived as special programmatic events and collectable art editions, to promote cultural acknowledgements for artistic practices.

ROD SUMMERS

Alias: TRAX 0982 / TRAX 0983

visual art / spoken word / avant-garde / contemporary art / nonmusic / conceptual art

Rod Summers (born 1943), born in Dorset, England, is a sound, visual, conceptual artist, performance poet, dramatist, mail artist and book artist, publisher, archivist, and lecturer on intermedia. He is based in Maastricht, Holland. The results of Summers' multiple, art-related activities have often appeared as part of his concept of VEC (Visual, Experimental, Concrete), which he originated in 1973. In 1999 CNN International featured Summers in its Art Club show as a representative of avant-garde art in Holland. In addition, over the last 20 years, Summers has performed his work at various festivals in Europe and Iceland, including the Reykjavik Art Festival (1991), the Polypoetry Festival of Sound Poetry (Bologna, 1993), and the International Sound Poetry Festival (Bologna, 1997), among others. Summers features among the "second wave" of intermedia artists, the first wave including Dick Higgins, Vito Acconci, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Joseph Beuys, and the Fluxus artists of the 1960s. He differs from Higgins and members of the first generation, however, in that he is less theoretical and more experiential in his approach to his art. There have been no VEC manifestos published by Summers, although one may intuit what it encompasses by examining the activities undertaken and products issued under its sign.

ROGER ROTOR

abstractism / experimental / noise / harsh / idm

Switzerland born Roger Rotor has been involved with music since the early 1980s with various music styles, even going into the realm of death metal. As his interest in other genres increased, Roger Rotor has become involved with a growing list of artists, resulting in a lengthy discography and myriad of sounds to his credit. However, it wasn't until 1997 that Roger Rotor came to work on his own. The music produced now is a far cry from the metal of before, having moved into a realm of minimalist IDM. Tracks pulsate with dense electronics and rhythmic percussion, creating a thick atmosphere of trance inducing grooves. Changes take shape gradually, beginning often with a simple sequence. Few additional sounds are introduced, and undergo a variety of manipulations resulting in a multitude of tonal shifts. This makes for tracks that are highly hypnotic, mildly harmonic, and perfect for those who like to vanish into the music on a late-night dance floor, surrounded by solid waves of sound.

ROGER TURNER

ROMOLO ROSSI

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ROMOLO ROSSI

RUDOLF EB.ER

visual art / musique concrete / performative art / actionism / body art / avant-garde / sound art / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / site specific

Rudolf Eb.er (a.k.a. Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock/Wash Your Brains] is a Actionist Performer from Switzerland active from 1985, who leads Schimpfluch Gruppe. He prefers to identify his own work as "psychoacoustic trainings". He is constantly touring with fellow Schimpfluch Gruppe members like Joke Lanz performing actions, which often lead to riots and subsequent ban of Gruppe in certain countries.