Artist Talk with Raub Roy

Raub Roy has performed and recorded electroacoustic music as horaflora since 2005, and more recently (2017-present) as Scy1e. Performances are often based around low-tech immersive sound, utilizing novel arrays of semi-autonomous devices and techniques to keep the audience, as well as himself, surprised. Balloons, electric toothbrush, modified speaker cones, transducers, and a bevy of cassette walkmen, are some of the idiosyncratic tools in his stage performances. He, with partner Dianne Lynn, founded Weird Ear Records, a record label reveling in disparate forms of experimental music. Their slogan, “The Weird Ear, The Better,” serves as a guideline to the curatorial themes across all of these projects. They hosted over 100 acts at their church-turned-underground-venue, Life Changing Ministries,

between 2012 and 2015.