Robert Rich

Ambient artist Robert Rich has made seven of his concerts, spanning twenty years of performance, available in downloadable digital format.

Each concert is available separately.

This release comes on the 20th anniversary of the 1989 radio concert in Paris that forms the first of these downloads. Each concert appears mostly in its entirety, lightly edited by Rich to fit under 80 minutes per set when needed. A few technical glitches are repaired, but otherwise all the quirks of live performance remain. Read more…

Ambient electronica artist Robert Rich sends word that a collection of short stories, Enriched Visions, inspired by his music, is now available in paperback:

A collection of short science fiction and surreal stories by Matt Howarth, based on the compositions of ambient pioneer Robert Rich.

Embark on a series of fantastic voyages, where you’ll encounter:

• the link between a massive brushfire and aboriginal cave art,
• a mathematician’s quest into the desert,
• giant lizards orbiting the Earth,
• an old man captivated by dancing moss in a park,
• a kidnapping in the new Ice Age,
• the music a lonely lighthouse keeper uses to while away the nights,
• the fate of the last Martians
• the unnatural hunger of Dame Procol’s new lifeforms,
• a man in search of amnesia,
• an antique dealer specializing in artifacts from the 21st Century’s texplosion era,
• an alien spire that reaches beyond the sky, and more.

This book also features story notes in which Howarth and Rich discuss the connections between the stories and the source music.”

Enriched Visions is available for $17.50.

If you’ve read Enriched Visions, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Tanner Menard has published an audio interview with ambient artist Robert Rich:

this interview was recorded over a telephone conversation and is between robert rich and myself, tanner menard. i have decided here to present my questions to rich in written form rather than in recorded form. my decision to do this was based on two factors. robert rich’s portion of the conversation stands out and is an important message about his original conception of the sleep concert. i believe his voice deserves to stand alone, and see this as a sort of theory lesson in sleep concerts for the future. and secondly, the recording qualities of each side of the phone conversation were too vastly different to work as a publishable sonic item. i hope that many more sleeping events will come about because of this new world wide interest in sleep concerts. as robert rich points out in this interview, all night musical events have been happening for thousands of years, and sleep concerts are one way in which we can bring sacred conscious raising ritual back into our modern lives through art and sound. i hope that these recordings can stand as a model for composers and artists in the future who wish to carry this process of sleep music into the future.

Tanner Menard plans on presenting Sommeil: Concert for Sleep in New Orleans on April 11-12.

Tanner Menard, Antenna Gallery and Experimedia Records plan to present Sommeil: Concert for Sleep in New Orleans on April 11-12.

Sommeil will be an all-night event beginning at 10:00 pm on Saturday, April 11th, and ending on Sunday, April 12th, at 7:00 am. Participants are asked to slowly fall asleep while live ambient and environmental music is performed through the night by Tanner Menard.

Sommeil: Concert for Sleep will be Menard’s reinterpretation of the sleep concert experiment, first created by Robert Rich in 1982. It will be presented at the Antenna Gallery, 3161 Burgundy St., New Orleans, LA 70117, in he heart of the St Claude Arts District. The concert will be realized with Rich ’s permission and guidance.

Sounds like this could be an awesome evening. Details below. Read more…

 

 Robert Rich demos the MOTM 730: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Robert Rich demonstrates the Synthesis Technology MOTM-730 Voltage-Controlled Pulse Divider.

The MOTM-730 is use to “divide down” an input signal (usually from a LFO or VCO) to produce multiple square wave outputs. The MOTM-120 Sub-Octave Mux is a simple version of this module (it divides by 2, 4, 8 and 16 only).

via MOTMsynth