Browse by Artist: CHARTIER, RICHARD

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Archival 1991
Label:	CROUTON
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	CROU 024CD

"Richard Chartier is a designer, an artist, and perhaps, a neat freak. Throughout his recent work, Chartier has continued to present sound as design -- clean, simple design, implying colors and direct lines and shapes; a spotless, modern room; a series of colored screens. His release on Crouton predates this taste, when things were a bit more complex, a bit more intense. And as his recent work sucks the listener into white space, Archival1991 takes you straight into a black hole, in the most comfortable way imaginable. This is a different kind of clean simplicity. The work is beautiful, stunning, and most of all, complexly powerful. The recording is based on two compositions from 1991, using analog and digital synthesizers. In 2003, these original pieces were used as source material for this new work, resulting in an extremely intriguing revisit, and aesthetically true to much of his work from the same period."

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Re'Post'Postfabricated
Label:	DEFRAG SOUND PROCESSING (ITALY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	DFRG 085CD

D.C.-based Richard Chartier is a minimal sound artist/composer and graphic designer who explores the relationship between sound, silence and the act of listening. Re'Post'Postfabricated is a reformed/remastered version of Postfabricated, which was Chartier's third full length CD, and was recorded between 1998 and 1999 via analog connections to Minidisc and afterwards mastered at a studio. The Minidisc compression, combined with a studio engineer not accustomed to this type of recorded material compromised the details of the sounds. In the words of Chartier himself, "Noting this difference upon listening to the source files, I began to reconstruct the entire work digitally, utilizing the original components. Originally all the tracks were recorded in real time with no overdubs following a score for each piece arranged in advance. For this rerecording, having lost many of these notations, I diagrammed each arrangement and have replicated the pieces as closely as possible." Postfabricated was originally released in 1999 on Microwave/Staalplaat as a CD-R edition of 222. Re'Post'Postfabricated then, is a reconstruction of how Postfabricated was intended to sound. The artists on CD2 that were given sound source files to create new works (remixes/reworkings) out of the Postfabricated material include: Coh, Vend, Asmus Tietchens, Frank Bretschneider, Goem, Taylor Deupree, Alva Noto, Freiband, Sogar, Byetone, Matmos and Steve Roden.

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:	A Hesitant Fold
Label:	MEME (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	MEME 016

"Fourth CD project (following direct.incidental.consequential on the Intransitive label, post-fabricated on the Microwave label, and the collaborative 0/R CD with Nosei Sakata on the 12K label) from Mr. Chartier, a painter/composer less concerned with flashing his bachelor of fine arts cum laude degree from James Madison than producing high quality challenging pure-tone works of individual thumbprint, a task not as easily feted these days as one would assume. Repetitive pulse-sound akin to slown down international code transmissions through miles of distilled water (for dispersion effects), not for the faint and certainly not for the impatient. Remarkable." -- Hrvatski. Limited stock

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Incidence
Label:	RASTER-NOTON (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	R-N 075CD

Originally released in 2006. After several releases by artists of the collective around Raster-Noton on American label Line, a long-outstanding invitation was issued into the opposite direction. This release is an expression of long-lasting artistic ties between both labels. In the greyness, heavy waves begin to glide into the one-hour work. They swell and flood a vacuum. Richard Chartier intensifies this maelstrom in long and graceful moves. In a majestic and subtle manner, he creates a subsonic vastness, capturing the listener, disconnecting him from the irrelevant reality. The end mirrors the beginning -- revealing the idea of an endless space in an endless composition. Finally, Incidence is a sound stream seeking to transform time into a certain timelessness. Chartier runs the label Line, following the traditions of Trente Oiseaux by focusing on minimalist and non-beat-oriented sound experiments. His compositions often test the limits of auditory perceptibility. In this way, Chartier concentrates on the tiniest changes within seemingly static sound masses.

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 G�nter, May 2001

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