rgms, or the Rube Goldberg Machine of Semiotics and Symbols, is a curated collective of artists focusing on experimental releases.
Members produce a wide array of exploratory musics, ranging from lush soundscapes to near barren field recordings, and controlled chaos to meditative canopies.
Contributing artists also devise a reflection of their work post-release. This reflection may take the form of a journal entry, active imagination, detailed explanation, or symbolic analysis with the overall aim of developing a heuristic to relate to the deeper meaning within music.
By cultivating a heuristic to retroactively assess the unconscious workings of music making, the rgms aims to excavate what lingers in the unconscious and bring it forth in the form of a conscious framework, from which new works may be born.
In this way, the rgms strives to function as the synthesis of the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy.