Richard Chartier

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Richard Chartier (born March 29, 1971 in Arlington (Virginia) , USA) is an American sound and installation artist and graphic designer. Since 1998 he has published around 50 CDs on various record labels around the world, in Germany for example on Raster-Noton . At the same time he runs his own label, Line Records. Chartier also appears under the pseudonym Pinkcourtesyphone .

music

Chartier's music consists primarily of digitally generated sound surfaces, but samples from acoustic instruments and voices are also integrated. Textures and sound designs are in the tradition of contemporary minimalism and are often very calm and economical. In general, the surfaces are static or partially fragmented. They contain individual events such as isolated frequency considerations (especially at high altitudes), noisy eruptions in the manner of collapse fields. Many of Richard Chartier's pieces point to a musical formalism in which the compositional processes are particularly relocated to the areas at the human hearing threshold . In this way silence becomes one of the main construction principles of his music. The surfaces are mostly repetitive or contain repetitive tone sequences and motifs, and at times also melodies. Richard Chartier recommends on his website to listen to his pieces quietly or even through headphones.

Collaborations

There have been collaborations with, among others, Taylor Deupree , William Basinski , CoH and Asmus Tietchens , as well as with the installation and video artists Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand and the video artist Linn Meyers.

Discography (selection)

solo

  • A Field for Recording CD (2010, Room40)
  • Untitled (Angle.1) CD (2009, NVO)
  • Further Materials CD (2008, Line)
  • Absence CD (2008, 3particles)
  • Incidence CD (2007, Raster-Noton)
  • Current CD (2006, Room40)
  • Levels (Inverted) CD (2006, LINE)
  • Tracing CD (2005, NVO)
  • Opening Coccyx (Die Schachtel) CD / Edition 2005
  • Retrieval 1-5 (ERS) CD 2005
  • Re'post'postfabricated - reformed + remixes (DSP) 2xCD 2005
  • Set or Performance (LINE) CD 2004
  • Archival1991 (Crouton) CD 2003
  • Overview (3particles) CD 2003
  • Two Locations (LINE) CD 2003
  • Other Materials (3particles) CD 2003
  • of surfaces (LINE) CD 2002
  • typeof (Falls) 3 "CD 2001
  • decisive forms (Trente Oiseaux) CD 2001
  • series (LINE) CD 2000 / re-released 2001
  • a hesitant fold (meme) CD 1999
  • post-fabricated (Microwave) CDR 1999
  • direct.incidental.consequential (Intransitive) CD 1998

Collaborations

  • Tarpenbek Continuum (with Gregory Büttner) (Material-Verlag HFBK Hamburg) LP 2015
  • Fabrication 2 (with Asmus Tietchens) (Auf Abwegen) 2CD 2010
  • Untitled 1-3 (with William Basinski) (LINE) CD 2008
  • Fabrication (with Asmus Tietchens) ( Die Stadt ) 2CD 2007
  • Specification. Fifteen (with Taylor Deupree) (LINE) CD 2006
  • Live in Los Angeles (as Chessmachine) (LINE) CD 2005
  • Chessmachine (with COH) (Mutek) CD 2004
  • William Basinski + Richard Chartier (Spekk) CD 2004
  • 0 / r (with Nosei Sakata) (12k) CD 2002
  • after ( Cascone + Chartier + Deupree) (12k, US) CD 2002
  • SPEC. (with Taylor Deupree) (12k) CD 1999
  • 0 / r (with Nosei Sakata) (12k) CD 1999

Exhibitions and performances at festivals (selection)

Exhibitions

  • ICA (Great Britain)
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Denmark)
  • ICC (Japan)
  • CAPC Musée D'Art Contemporain De Bordeaux (France)
  • Musee d'Art Contemporain (Canada)
  • The Contemporary Art Center (Lithuania)
  • Sculpture Center (NY)
  • Schirn Kunsthalle (Federal Republic of Germany)
  • Visual Music at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (USA).

Festivals

  • MUTEK (Canada)
  • GRM / Maison de Radio France (France)
  • Music Triennial Koeln (Federal Republic of Germany)
  • Observatori (Spain)
  • DEAF (Ireland)
  • Transmediale (Federal Republic of Germany)
  • NETMAGE (Italy)
  • Lovebytes (UK)
  • The Leeds International Film Festival (UK)
  • The Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands)
  • REDCAT (USA)
  • La Batie (Switzerland)

literature

  • Demers, Joanna: Listening Through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-538766-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DJ sets and solo pieces on Soundcloud
  2. ↑ Statement 3particles.com, accessed on November 3 2,016th

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Chartier, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound and installation artist and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Arlington, Virginia , USA