Environs: Gryphon Rue, Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, Mónica de la Torre, Diego G

On this special edition of Environs, we’re thrilled to bring together performances and readings by a luminous group of artists hailing from New York and Mexico City, working with experimental music, sound, fiction and poetry. Investigating ecologies of sound and language, nature and document, this evening promises one-of-a-kind performances and collaborations.

Gryphon Rue (b. New York City) is an artist, composer, and musician. His approach fuses collage, improvisation, and the recombination of materials and recordings to build works in both sound and image. In his music, Rue shapes abstract pieces from electroacoustic textures and field recordings, creating soundscapes that blur the lines between the natural and the digitally transformed. Frequently, he draws directly from processes found in nature—feedback, cycles, emergence, and systemic interaction—using environmental recordings and processed acoustic instruments to emulate organic patterns and phenomena. His 2025 album I Keep My Diamond Necklace In A Pond Of Sparkling Water has drawn acclaim for its unconventional instrumentation and ecological imagination: “Creaking and grumbling and humming with subterranean and oceanic immensity, singing in voices both animal and botanical” (The Quietus); Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp. “A conjuror in stereo” (Electronic Sound) who “plays with sonics in a way that a visual artist might manipulate light” (The Quietus), Rue brings to his music “restless energy, offering up bright, sweet packet-sized servings of electroacoustic crispness, pulsing ambient techno, and Cluster’s proto-industrial chug” (The Wire).

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola (Mexico City, 1987) is an artist and experimental poet working with language in a variety of ways. She has published The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons, 2023) and Templos en erupción (Juan Malasuerte, 2025), as well as the chapbook O (EBL/Cielo Abierto, 2023). Her first album, REZO (Insect Poem) is an ode to the stridulation of insects and their vibration on the planet. She co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial platform from Mexico City.

Mónica de la Torre’s seven poetry books include Pause the Document, just out from Nightboat Books; Repetition Nineteen; The Happy End / All Welcome, a riff on a riff on Kafka's Amerika; and two collections in Spanish published in her native Mexico City. Among other anthologies, she co-edited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79. She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College's Creative Writing MFA program.

Diego Gerard Morrison (Mexico City, 1984) is a writer, editor and translator whose recent work explores themes of Magical Realism and appropriation in the context of the Mexican drug war. His first book, The Wait (John of the Thing, 2021), is an appropriation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in a setting of Mexican cartel violence and its resulting crisis of forced disappearances. His debut novel, Myth of Pterygium (Autumn House Press, 2022) was the winner of the Rising Prize in Fiction. He is the author of the novel Pages of Mourning (Two Dollar Radio, 2024). He is the cofounder and editor of diSONARE, an editorial project based in Mexico City.

Leftpop is the project of composer, improviser, and producer Harrison Adams. He is the curator of Environs and passionate about environmental music in many forms. His current work is inspired by acoustics and phenomena natural world–the movements of wind, rain, clouds; open spaces and landscape; the life-cycle of flowers. Across a decade of performances and recordings, he has interwoven field-recordings, analog synthesis, spoken-word poetry, data sonification, and experimental beats, interrogating ecology, media, and mental health. His album Rain Enough is out now on New Memento. “These are loosely structured pieces that wander and breathe. They perform more like quiet conversations with the natural world…That connection to the earth through music translates to a message to care for this planet” (The New Lofi)

paper gem produces sample-based hip hop and is experimenting with melding ambient, slowcore and electronic styles. He is a part of the 100Fold collective (a mix of rappers and producers) and has previously released projects with the collective, as a duo alongside rapper Nigel Xavier and beat tapes/remixes as a solo artist. He’s exploring visual art/collage and DJing to share some of his eclectic music tastes.

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