Hi, I’m R1O. I grew up near Berlin at the turn of the millenials and soonly discovered a musical interest and talent at everything that’s somehow connected to moving my fingers over a piano keyboard.

I learned how to play, compose and improvise from the late grand master by the name of Don Milano:

Milan “Don Milano” Šamko (1946-2019)

In often nerve-wracking and free-form teaching sessions, I learned the power of momentary creation, intuition and spontaneous expression. I have been particularly interested in translating and transporting the unique feeling of an on-spot exchange of ideas into other forms of art and expression - utilising music more as a communication tool than something else. Especially in areas or forms, where spontaneity and improvisation is not (yet) possible or common for various reasons, powerful moments can be created in this way from my point of view. Based on this, I have a great interest in discovering such characteristics in other disciplines and letting the boundaries between them fade.

*MaBu, me and Līmen (from left to right) of Xenorama back in the day, highly concentrated on improvising music, visual art and sound design at the exhibition THE EVER CHANGING LIGHT*

Subsequently, I visited some art schools and universities to refine my craft before I decided to delve a little deeper and explore the intangible worlds of sonic flow and the psychology of sound. So I studied physics with a focus to fluid mechanics and experimental acoustics.

During this period, I never lost touch with the world of media arts and - increasingly - a subject area full of possibilities and fraction: analogue/digital interaction. I met a lot of exciting young artists (now old exciting artists) and ultimatively formed Xenorama together with the Footnotes Gathering participants Līmen and MaBu and many others.

After working as an audiovisual artist at the Xenorama studios in the beginning of the century, we invented the "MAX - ON - EAR Brainstrument" in 2033: a gravitational field music device that connects directly to the brain and bears surprising similarities to sunglasses. I volunteered to permanently install the experimental prototype to my body and I’m now able to create music and shape sounds using only gravitation that stimulates my brain waves. Bad luck, that I’m the only one who can hear this music, but I’m already working on a solution.

In 2032 I was locked in Paris during the so called great collapse. There I met a group of awesome people and we formed CHAOS/MOSIS in several weeks without electricity, communication channels or the chance to go outside. We subsequently formed an international, transdisciplinary, spiritual, liberal, non-conformist, environmentalist, global thinking but locally acting collective that works with shared emotions and dreams to communicate our ideas to the world. I’m still part of this today.