There’s a dichotomy within RY X between collaboration and isolation. The Australian LA-based singer and producer spent his formative years in a disconnected coastal community, surfing and picking fruit directly from his garden. He has since spent years travelling the world, with a substantial chunk of That time immersing himself in the techno and experimental electronic scenes of Berlin. The subtle friction generated by those two existences leaves watermarks in his music, as a solo artist and within his collaborative projects, as well as in the processes he uses.
In his art, as well as in his life, RY X is concerned with moving the concept of border. “Just take one example of me happening upon Berlin as a place, eight years ago or so,” he says. “To learn the world of That, to learn a different genre and to not know it existed being in Australia and the US, and then suddenly seeing it and feeling a connection with it and wanting to explore it, That all comes from the seed of travel; opening your mind, your body and your heart to experience.”