ARTIST STATEMENT
Based in Portland, Oregon, as of summer 2008, Demian Rufus [real name and composer name, Mike Richard] is an experi-mental composer, a PostIndie-militant-PostIndustrial-bedroom-neofolk-synth-powe
rplop keyboardist and vo-killist creating text[e]-based songs and compositions. Demian werks as an independent researcher, undisciplined critical and clinical theorist, an image-music-text[e]-theatre-Re-Writer, and neo-proletariat dreamer. He studied with Michael Pisaro at California Institute of the Arts where he received a BFA in Composition in 2005.
Some solo and collaborative projects include:
Demian Label & Distro!
struggle at the snuggle factory
Klaws Krossed [with Industrial Implant]
Demian Rufus & Verbum
psychic rape defense unit [with Regosphere and Peiste/Joseph Gates]
Vostok-Arctic [electro project directed by Joseph Gates]
Headless God [an Hommage to Yukio Mishima], co-laboration directed by Portland-based Jack Donovan [author of _Androphilia_ and _Blood Brotherhood_]
collaborators also include: Kris Force, Philip Haut, Stahlwerk 9, Annen Berg, Regosphere, Marco Grosso, Vernarbter Riss, King of Coma...]
Some music releases include:
DLD001: -struggle at the snuggle factory-: _Nietzscheo-Kainian Songs For Fetishismo-Industrial Snugglies_ CD-R. The first debut release created in 2004 re-issued as special limited edition with extra 5X7 postcard from Demian Label & Distro!
-struggle at the snuggle factory's- third album created in 2006, “WWUUFFWWUUFFWWUUFF[6]†released summer 2009 now available from Finalmuzik in Italy, also appearing on "PROGRAM VOLUME 1" Final Muzik 2XCD promotional compilation [promotional double cd also available only from finalmuzik, Italy].
-STRUGGLE AT THE SNUGGLE FACTORY "WWUUFFWWUUFFWWUUFF[6]" CDr (Final Muzik) FM Special Serie 12. “WWUUFFWWUUFFWWUUFF[6]†s the third Struggle At The Snuggle Factory solo album created in 2006 by Portland,
Oregon based synth player/vocal-artist Demian Rufus. Developing a plane of consistency along the lines of a post-Indie militant postindustrial d.i.y. neo-folk synth-power plop aesthetic, these songs construct the Deleuze and Guattari influence with a creative act of telling parallel folk-tales of Luciferianism, Masochism, Love, Kainian mythologies, Becoming-pup-beast-man, possessed dogs like “Omen Dogâ€, a song written on 06-06-2006, and even a re-writing of “Satisfaction†with “Satsf-faktionâ€. Deadicated to the late Jhonn Balance.150 copies. € 9,00
-Klaws Krossed- appearing on Invisible Eye's _Interior_ Kassette/CD-R Kompell-ation with a title trakk called "Interiorization" also available now, and also a track within the Hierophant card 3inch single of Invisible Eye's "Tarot Series". [both comps are available from Invisible Eye Productions, Italy.]
-psychic rape defence unit/ music for torture- split tape release on Joseph Gates' VRI label [currently sold out]
-Vostok-:_Arctic_ electro project from Demian Rufus and Joseph Gates now available as cassette from VRI [Joseph Gates' -Violent Revolution International- label, Louisiana]
Also there are four online downloadable flac files of 3 Teenbeat Records tribute cover songs [-Jack's Loss-/-satsf-], and live chamber musik compositions [-Mike Richard-] using the texts of Deleuze and Spinoza at California Institute of the Arts on archive.org from My Mean Magpie Records in Canada, (2002 and 2005).
