| Chartier is one of the key figures in the current of reductionist electronic music sometimes described as microsound: a form of extreme minimalism in which the music is sometimes very quiet, sometimes very sparse, often both.Noton (Germany), Die Stadt (Germany), Spekk (Japan), Mutek rec (Canada), DSP (Italy), and ERS (NL), Trente Oiseaux (Germany), and Fallt (Ireland), Intransitive (USA), including collaborations with noted artists Taylor Deupree, William Basinski, COH, *0, Kim Cascone, and Asmus Tietchens and has appeared on numerous international electronic music and sound art compilations.Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt) and A Minimal Future?Visual Music at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles).While it is clearly formed of discrete parts, the work doesn't look beyond itself, it doesn't refer to other sounds or musical instruments, it is entirely conceived within the field of digital sound.Chartier allows his pieces to be governed by their own internal dynamics, finding specific arrangements of sound that integrate the various sonic objects he chooses to work with into coherent wholes....The work is ultimately experienced in terms of density as well sparseness, sensuality as well as coolness.Yet the bareness of the works is illusory: under the microscope that he obliges each listener to peer down, a pulsating aural life becomes apparent."Alva Noto, Asmus Tietchens, Mark Fell and the first full length CDs by Miki Yui, Skoltz_Kolgen, and Steinbruchel).This project continues to tour.Currently Richard Chartier's installation work is represented by G FINE ART a comtemporary art gallery in Washington, DC.SELECTED SOUND INSTALLATIONS + EXHIBITS
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Profile:Richard Chartier (b.His minimalist work explores the relationship between sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening.Awarded one of twelve Honorable Mentions in the category of Digital Music by the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, 2001 (Austria), Chartier's CD Series, was featured in the Whitney Biennial 2002 exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY).Both his visual and sound works have been exhibited in museums and galleries including ICC (Tokyo, Japan), Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy), the Art Institute of Chicago, The Contemporary Museum (Baltimore), Diapason (NY), and Fusebox (DC).Reflect What You Are ...Netmage 04 (CD)
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more...It don't get much more minimal than this!While richard chartier is no stranger to microscopic sound synthesis, he turns it up (down?Honestly, after hearing several minutes of "silence", I thought I'd gotten a bad disc.Learn more at the new LINE website...As we know there were two editions of this CD, 500 pieces each.On quick modify, this is what the body will look like.And this is the replacement for the subject.Restore the message to this after editing.Id + " Link: " + targetLink."This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.Every Richard Chartier release is a thing to be savoured.As the title suggests, Chartier i...Recent Richard Chartier releases have been characterised by rather industrial sounding dronescapes, particularly his 'Archival' series of works, which revisited his synthesizer compositions from the early nineties.Bearing resemblance to the aforementioned William Basinski in a floatation tank, or the more spacious and g...Stick with us here; it's about to get complicated.Line label boss Richard Chartier releases his new micro textured CD for
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