Browse by Artist: CHARTIER, RICHARD

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Typeof
Label:	FALLT (IRELAND)
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	FALLT 14.0020

"Typically for Chartier 'typeof' is an exercise in extreme restraint. Few artists use the space between sound -- the negative space of audio -- quite as effectively and as courageously as Chartier. Track one in particular -- all the tracks are untitled -- consists of fewer than six seconds of the most discreet of audio events suspended within a 54 second sound-space. Allowing the number of events to build over the course of the release, Chartier builds the most delicate of structures which generously rewards repeated listening."

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Set or Performance
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 018CD

"LINE is proud to present Set or Performance, the first live performance documentation of Richard Chartier." "My live performance differs perhaps most significantly from my recorded work by virtue of an increased audibility and activity. The sounds used are selected from a collection of pre-designed sounds, culled from past compositions and unreleased works but chosen with attention to the space and situation in which they will be presented as part of a new performative composition. In this sense, a live piece works to bring sounds into new and more immediately dynamic relations, creating a compositional outline within which a degree of space exists for immediate and on-site improvisational effects and reworkings." -- Richard Chartier.

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Further Materials
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 035CD

"Line is proud to release this collection of recordings from numerous international compilations from 2002-2005. This collection is a wide range of sound works from the ultra-minimal whispers of 'Composition09.01' to the subtle harmonics and musicality of 'How Things Change' to the loud violent distortion of 'Tempt' (a piece only performed a handful of times for noisy spaces -- for example, this one was in attempt to drown out Akufen's set filtering from an adjoining area). Many of these original compilations are out of print or hard to find editions and 'Untitled' makes its debut on CD from its original vinyl appearance. 'Specification.Eleven' and 'Specification.Fourteen' are both part of the continuing collaborative works with Taylor Deupree. This CD serves as a follow-up to 2002's Other Materials."

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Transparency (Performance)
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 049CD

"In 2010, sound artist Richard Chartier was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship to explore the National Museum of American History's collection of 19th Century acoustic apparatus for scientific demonstration. Chartier focused on the works of the German physicist Rudolf Koenig, including the Grand Tonometer (c. 1870-1875). This beautiful and precise set of 692 tuning forks expresses the frequency range 520 v.s (vibration simple) (260 hz) to 8192 v.s. (4096 hz). The pitches of the forks extend over four octaves, affording a perfect means for testing, by enumeration of the beats, the number of vibrations producing any given note. The Grand Tonometer is the only instrument of its kind in existence. During his Fellowship, Chartier individually recorded each of these unique instrument's existing tuning forks as well as many other instruments, devices, and their tonal interactions. Rudolph Koenig considered the Grand Tonometer and his other creations to be purely scientific instruments. His precise workmanship extended the Grand Tonometer's range to frequencies across the field of human perception, thus allowing the listener a chance to witness the nature of sound itself. Chartier's own compositions juxtapose soft and hushed, almost imperceptible, fragments with high and low frequencies, bursts, and static in an asymptotic process that cuts away from and deepens the nature of sound, finally achieving compositional focus in the spaces between them. Chartier was particularly drawn to the Grand Tonometer, feeling a distinct connection to Koenig's approach to sound, and to his aim of a new, or enhanced, way of listening."

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Current
Label:	ROOM40 (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	EDRM 409CD

"Richard Chartier's sound installation and recorded pieces evoke a state of aural awareness. Working with a variety of minimal structures and refined sound sources, Chartier has been responsible for some of the most austere audio works of recent years. Aesthetically refined and creatively provocative, much of his work has focused on the edges of perception, both in frequency range and amplitude. On Current, his latest work to be released in conjunction with his upcoming performances in Australia and Japan later this year, Chartier offers a multilayered sound field. Shimmering high tones filter amid a clouded layer of dense audio mist -- across the 20 minutes, he creates a potent journey through crisp yet warm sound textures, metered pulses and spacious stereo field. The piece is thematically linked to the idea of travel by airplane -- the disassociation of time and location -- air currents above and the oceanic currents below."

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Decisive Forms
Label:	TRENTE OISEAUX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TOC 013

"Decisive Forms is a very subtle, abstract work of great detail, a perfect object for contemplation that requires the listener's full attention. I find it extremely captivating to follow as it unfolds over time, to adapt my breathing to its slow pulse, and to be completely absorbed by the act of perception itself without thinking in form of interior comments, descriptions, or associations. Decisive Forms is another step forward Richard is taking from his fine work 'series' that has just received one of the twelve Honorable Mentions of Prix Ars Electronica 2001. I will not try to further describe Decisive Forms, but rather encourage you to go ahead and experience it yourself -- the attention it requires is generously rewarded." --Bernhard Günter, May 2001

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