Richard Lainhart

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Richard Lainhart (born February 14, 1953 in Vestal , New York , USA ; † December 30, 2011 ) was an American composer , musician and filmmaker .

Live and act

Lainhart, born in Vestal, New York, in 1953, studied composition at the State University of New York with Joel Chadabe , a pioneer of electroacoustic music. As a composer of avant-garde electronic music, he became known with the piece White Night , which appeared on Brian Eno's album Discreet Music in 1975 . In addition to the USA, his compositions have also been performed in England, Sweden, Germany, Australia and Japan. A review of his compositions from the 1970s and 1980s appeared on the double album Ten Thousand Shades of Blue in 2001 . In 2008 he was commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation to compose the New York Soundscape concert series .

At more than 2000 concerts, Lainhart has performed compositions by John Cage , David Tudor , Steve Reich , Phill Niblock , David Berhman and Jordan Rudess in addition to his own works . As a filmmaker he emerged in the field of short and animated films. His films have been shown at festivals in the USA, Canada, Germany and Korea. At the International Festival of Cinema and Technology in Toronto, he received prizes in several categories for the film A Haiku Setting . His multimedia work No Other Time received an award from the New York State Council in 2008 .

Compositions

  • The Sun-Dog Trail for tape (1971)
  • The Deep for tape (1972)
  • Black Rain for tape (1972)
  • Surtsey for tape (1972)
  • Moss for tape (1972)
  • In the Fens for tape (1972)
  • Dark Chambers for tape (1973)
  • The Wave-Sounding Sea for tape (1973)
  • Iron Hill for tape (1974)
  • White Night for tape (1974)
  • Daylight for tape (1974)
  • The FM Automat for tape (1975)
  • Snow for tape (1975)
  • The Course of the River for tape (1975)
  • A River On Cold Mountain for tape (1975)
  • Bronze Cloud Disk for Tape (1975)
  • Jade Cloud Bell for tape (1975)
  • Rain and Evening Wind (for David Gibson ) for cello and electronics (1975)
  • The Wheel of the Sky for voice with tape delay (1975)
  • A Song of Shifting Mirrors for Shakuhachi (1975)
  • Streams and Mountains Without End for Glockenspiel (1975)
  • Two Mirrors Face One Another for tape (1976)
  • Cities of Light for tape (1980)
  • These Last Days for synthesizers with digital delays (1983)
  • Hall of Mirrors for synthesizers with digital delays (1984)
  • The Hidden Rose for vibraphone with digital delays (1985)
  • Enveloped In Shadows for synthesizers with digital delays (1985)
  • A Question Remains for synthesizers with digital delays (1985)
  • 10,000 Shades of Blue for Interactive Computer System in Real Time (1985)
  • Desert Gardens for Chapman Stick and Interactive Computer System in Real Time (1986)
  • The Rising Night for MIDI wind controller and interactive computer system in real time (1986)
  • The Nag for MIDI keyboard and interactive computer system in real time (1986)
  • Staring at the Moon for vibraphone and interactive computer system in real time (1987)
  • An Unknown Number for MIDI wind controller and interactive computer system in real time (1988)
  • Under the Clock for MIDI mallet controller and interactive computer system in real time (1988)
  • Paint test area for interactive computer system in real time (1989)
  • Walking Slowly Backwards for Vibraphone (1989)
  • An Open Hand for Chapman Stick with Digital Delays (1990)
  • Mineral World for Chapman Stick and Interactive Computer System in Real Time (1992)
  • Five Nocturnes for electric guitar and computer (1998–2000)
  • Dreamwood for electric guitar and computer (2003)
  • A Cloudless Sky for electric guitar and computer (2003)
  • An Open Window in an Empty Room for piano with e-bows and computer (2004)
  • One Word for Kyma (2005)
  • Naming New Things for electric guitar and computer (2005)
  • Cranes Fly West for lap steel guitar and Kyma (2006)
  • The Tiger's Dream for Continuum and Kyma (2006)
  • The Book of Sand for Continuum and Kyma (2007)
  • Four Voices for Continuum and Buchla 200e (2007)
  • Threshold for electric guitar and Kyma (2008)

Discography

  • Brian Eno: White Night , 1975
  • These Last Days (1987)
  • Ten Thousand Shades of Blue (2001)
  • I, Mute Hummings (2006)
  • A Fistful of Patchcords (2006)
  • Luminous accidents
  • Cranes Fly West (2010)
  • The Wave-Sounding Sea (2010)
  • Polychromatic Integers (2011)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Lainhart, 1953-2011, obituary in Synthtopia
personal data
SURNAME Lainhart, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vestal , New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2011