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Saturday, December 31, 2011

RIP Richard Lainhart & Mel Morley (midimel)


Duet in C - YouTube Uploaded by azimuthvisuals on May 20, 2010

"Music by Mel Morley and Richard Lainhart. Recorded at Pocono Skies electro-music festival, May 15, 2010. This improvised piece is part of a larger collaboration including Howard Moscovitz, Jeannie Allen, and Charles Shriner. Mel Morley plays keyboards and software synthesizers. Richard Lainhart plays Haken Continuum and Buchla modular synthesizer. Camera by Greg Waltzer and visuals by Hong Waltzer of Azimuth Visuals."

It is with tremendously sad news that I post the passing of both Richard Lainhart & Mel Morley this holiday season. My condolences go out to their families.

I recently met Richard Lainhart and his lovely wife in Bellingham for the Electronic Arts Festival. You can find a slideshow and video of his lecture with a performance of Oraisen on the Haken Continuum and Buchla 200e here. I believe my first post on Richard went up back in 2007. His work has been featured numerous times on the site. Just do a search on Lainhart on the right search box.  Google brings up 8900 results, but I'm guessing some are repeats.  Regardless, his presence on the site was massive.

Richard had a passion for not only music but for teaching as well. Many of his performances such as that at the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival was a combination of performance and lecture. I only briefly communicated with him at Bellingham and via email, but felt akin to him.  He said he loved performing and travelling.  He was always grateful for his coverage on the site and once told me a story about how he ended up on a trip to Italy because of a post here on MATRIXSYNTH.  It was one of the biggest compliments I ever received on the site.  I will never forget that and I will never forget him.  Rest in peace Richard, you were one cool cat.  See his Facebook Page for messages. You can find his website at http://www.otownmedia.com/. Update: you can find a recent performance of Richard in New York on CatSynth here. I'm not sure if this was his last. via CatSynth in the comments below: "What a sad day! I knew Richard Lainhart from performing in New York over the past couple of years. It was only a couple of days ago that I posted the show we did where we did an improvised score to his film "History of the Future." His music and films were beautiful and he was a great person, and will be missed. :("

Update: I went up to Bellingham for the afternoon. It was a planned trip, but having briefly met Richard and his wife Caroline there gave it special meaning this time. A bit more reflective on the life of those I thought I'd eventually get to know better. In the Fairhaven district there is a little garden shop with artisan products. There is an outside section with a little rock gravel path that you can walk through. At one point in the walk something captured my attention. It took me a second and I realized it was a bunch of birds chirping away as if having a massive conversation. It made me think of Richard. On Twitter and Facebook he used to post about listening to birds outside his home. It always reminded me to slow down a little and just take the time to listen to the birds.    

Update: via I Dream of Wires: Extended Interview Series: Richard Lainhart

Richard Lainhart: IDOW Extended Interview #1 from I Dream Of Wires on Vimeo.

Mel Morley aka midimel was well known to many in the electronic music scene. You can find his website here: http://midimel.com. He once played keys for Flock of Seagulls, and was one of the few owners of the Performance Music Systems Syntar. George Mattson of Mattson Mini Modular and Performance Music Systems knew him well. Mel, actually dropped by the NAMM booth in the early 80s when the Syntar was shown. He dropped by George's booth and gave the Syntar a spin. According to George he was quite proficient at it and someone walking by came up to talk to him. That person ended up being the contact that led him to playing for Flock of Seagulls.  George said he is really going to miss him.  He had some great conversations with him. I have only briefly communicated with Mel myself, but he like Richard was one cool cat. I wish I could have gotten to know him better.  You can find his Facebook Page with condolences here.


Thursday, June 21, 2012

Richard Lainhart, Morton Subotnick and I Dream of Wires Screening

As many of you know, Richard Lainhart passed away on December 30, 2011. He was primarily known in his later days for his music composed with a Buchla 200e modular system and Haken Continuum. On July 7 & 8, 2012 he and Morton Subotnick's works will be featured in a concert and screening presented by Harvestworks, in association with ((audience)) and River-to-River Festival. A screening of the modular synthesizer documentary "I Dream of Wires" which features Richard will be held on July 8.

"A note from Caroline Meyers (Richard's wife).
'Richard would have been so honored to have his name linked to that of Morton Subotnick for this July 7th concert. He often spoke of his reverence and admiration for the composer's works and I believe Silver Apples of the Moon was the inspiration for Richard to begin his explorations in electronic music.

That he did not live to see this day pains my heart, but I hope that the occasion and the admission price will encourage you to mark your calendar and attend this concert in his name, and in celebration of electronic music from the master.'"

The events:

July 7, 2012, 7:30pm
Works by Morton Subotnick and Richard Lainhart Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
Pace University
3 Spruce Street, NYC
Admission: FREE

On July 7, Source of Uncertainty II presents a premiere performance of Energy Shapes by Morton Subotnick and excerpts from his legendary album Silver Apples of the Moon.

The July 7th concert's opening feature is The Orchestra of the Damned, by the late Richard Lainhart (1953-2011). The Orchestra of the Damned is a quadraphonic tape-work for the Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer.

As Richard introduced the first audition of the piece on MatrixSynth (www.matrixsynth.com) in 2007, he said: "Friends: just in time for Halloween, a new piece for Buchla 200e and Continuum - The Orchestra Of The Damned...I played this live entirely with the Continuum - no sequencing or multitracking involved. I hope you enjoy it." [posted here]

In a review for Further Noise, Caleb Deupree says, "Orchestra of the Damned is cinematic with all of its texture changes, from sparse, quiet sounds to constant, siren drones, including a remarkable section reminiscent of the earliest electronic works from Cologne and Paris of the 1950s."

July 8, 2012, 6:00pm
Film screening of I Dream of Wires
including an interview with Richard Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn
Admission: $5

On July 8, ((audience)) will present a special screening of selections from I Dream of Wires, a forthcoming documentary on the modular synthesizer featuring interviews with manufacturers, collectors, designers and musicians.

The I Dream of Wires, screening will include an interview with Richard Lainhart.

Directed by Robert Fantinatto, I Dream of Wiresis a journey into the obscure but highly influential world of modular synthesizers. Learn how it revolutionized music from the pioneers that were there, why it quickly became obsolete, and how it has become all the rage again.

The film is currently in production; the directors will present a selection of raw footage and interviews. For more information, visit http://idreamofwires.org/.

The evening will also include short films by Liz Wendelbo with soundtracks by her Brooklyn-based synthesizer band, Xeno & Oaklander."

"About Richard Lainhart
Richard Lainhart was a composer, performer, and filmmaker based in New York. He studied composition and electronic music techniques with Joel Chadabe, a pioneer of electronic music and the designer of the Coordinated Electronic Music System at one time the largest integrated Moog synthesizer system in the world. From 1987-1990, Lainhart was the Technical Director for Intelligent Music, developers of innovative computer music software like M, Jam Factory, and UpBeat.

His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Japan. Recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records, ExOvo and Airglow Music labels and are distributed online via MusicZeit. As an active performer, Lainhart has appeared in public approximately 2000 times. Besides performing his own work, he has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. He has composed over 100 electronic and acoustic works, and has been making music for forty years. In 2008, he was commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation to contribute a work to New York Soundscape.

Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown in festivals in the US, Canada, Germany, and Korea, and online at ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. His film "A Haiku Setting" won awards in several categories at the 2002 International Festival of Cinema and Technology in Toronto. In 2008, he was awarded a Film & Media grant by the New York State Council on the Arts for "No Other Time", full-length intermedia performance designed for a large reverberant space, combining live analog electronics with four-channel playback, and high-definition computer-animated film projection."

Monday, January 07, 2013

Richard Lainhart's Studio & An Abandoned Garden


Richard Lainhart passed away on Dec 30, 2011.

His music and influence is kept alive by his wife Caroline at Richard Lainhart Music and Films.  Pictured here is his studio with a Buchla 200e and Vibraphone.  The video below is a piece he recorded with processed vibraphone followed by An Abandoned Garden
by Richard Lainhart & Lucio Menegon just released on Bandcamp.


One Year from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo.
"A year-long timescape of a maple tree in my backyard, assembled and processed in Adobe After Effects. The soundtrack is computer-processed bowed vibraphone, played and recorded live.

'One Year" was recently shown at T-Minus 2008, the Time-Art Festival, in Brooklyn, NY; DIGiT2008, the Fifth Annual Delaware Valley Digital Media Exposition in Narrowsburg, NY; and at Dreaming A New Real: Loop Sanctuary IV, in Troy, NY. In December 2010, 'One Year' won the HDFEST Deffie award for Best Experimental Film at HDFEST 2010 in Portland, OR."


"Limited edition of 100 vinyl w/ hand screenprinted cover and letterpressed wraparound band.

released 07 January 2012
Music by Richard Lainhart & Lucio Menegon"


Monday, October 01, 2012

The Music of Richard Lainhart Coming to Tokyo & a New Release

October 13 & October 16, 2012 – Tokyo, Japan

Ambient Dream: The Music of Richard Lainhart

"If you are in Japan or know of anyone who will be in Toyko October 13 or 16, please pass this along. Thanks! — Caroline Meyers (Richard Lainhart's wife)

Richard Lainhart (1953-2011) was one of the seminal figures in contemporary American electronic music, composing more than 150 works over the course of nearly four decades. His distinctive sound was characterized by organic textures inspired by natural phenomena, such as clouds, water and fire, typically arranged in minimalist structures and treated with microscopically observed harmonies. The "listening" concerts October 13 and 16 are retrospectives of his music and a preview of an upcoming vinyl LP scheduled for release December 2012.

For more about Richard and the legacy of his music visit
www.otownmedia.com/RichardLainhart
or email Caroline Meyers cmeyers@otownmedia.com"

Update: you can also track updates at Richard Lainhart Music and Films on Facebook.  Be sure to like the page.

And a new release available at Vicmod Records:

"The Course of the River, a vintage electronic music work by the late synthesist Richard Lainhart is now available.

It includes two parts:

A River on a Cold Mountain 14:21
The Course of the River 31:48

The music was created in 1975 on the Moog CEMS System at SUNY Albany Electronic Music Studio. All proceeds from the album will go to the Lainhart Family."

Click here for full details on the release. Excerpt regarding the CEMS:

"The pieces on 'The Course of the River' were both recorded in the State University of New York at Albany's Electronic Music Studio in 1975, using the Moog CEMS (Coordinated Electronic Music Studio) System developed by my composition teacher Joel Chadabe. Joel worked closely with Bob Moog in developing the CEMS, and Moog developed many custom modules for the system, which at the time may have been the largest integrated Moog synthesizer in the world.

The CEMS System contained an extended array of sound generating and processing modules as well as a unique programming system consisting of an automated matrix mixer, a digital master clock, and a bank of eight analog sequencers with customized logic hardware for running them together, independently, in succession, or in any combination of those modes..."

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Lainhart @ {R}ake 4-22-10

Lainhart @ {R}ake 4-22-10 by rlainhart
"Lainhart, Buchla, Haken, Continuum, live, improvisation, electronic

Richard Lainhart live at {R}ake at Issue Project Room, 4-22-10. {R}ake (http://www.rakeav.com/) is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with videoists and musicians working together in
exploratory ways. In this set I played Buchla 200e controlled with a Haken Continuum, responding to live visuals created by Giles Hendrix."

Update: Video of the performance:

Richard Lainhart @ Rake part 1

YouTube via rustyanalog — April 26, 2010 — "Richard Lainhart live at {R}ake at Issue Project Room, 4-22-10. {R}ake (http://www.rakeav.com/) is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with videoists and musicians working together in
exploratory ways. In this set I played Buchla 200e controlled with a Haken Continuum, responding to live visuals created by Giles Hendrix."

Richard Lainhart @ Rake part 2


Richard Lainhart @ Rake part 3

Thursday, October 23, 2008

City Skies 08 Electronic Music Event Nov 8, 2008, Decatur, GA

via James Combs on the AH list:

"A little event I do every month here in Georgia...

City Skies 08 Electronic Music Event Nov 8, 2008, Decatur, GA

The next City Skies 08 event will be held on Saturday, November 8, 2008, with an afternoon Master class workshop with Richard Lainhart (Multi-Dimensional Control for Realtime Analog Synthesis Performance using Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum Fingerboard controller) from 2pm-4pm and performances starting at 8pm. We showcase the region's best electronic musicians at our favorite venue, Kavarna.

Confirmed performers on November 8 include Richard Lainhart (from New York), Collaboration with Sounds (from South Carolina), and Bribing The Buddha (from Atlanta). Shows kick off at 8pm.

The Richard Lainhart workshop for the November show promises to be quite amazing. Please tell your friends about it. Attendance will be limited:

Multi-Dimensional Control for Realtime Analog Synthesis Performance

The promise of electronic music has been, from the beginning, to provide the composer with the means to create his or her own unique sounds and musics without the need for intermediaries like performers and technicians. And the problem with electronic music has been, from the beginning, to endow synthesized sound with the same organic expressivity found in acoustic instruments and natural sound while making synthesizers viable performance instruments in their own right.

The first electronic instruments intended for performance, such as the Theremin and the Ondes Martenot, while providing the performer with highly nuanced pitch control, had limited sound-shaping control and could only play one note at a time. The first modular analog synthesizers, while offering polyphony - the ability to play multiple notes simultaneously - and unlimited sonic control, had limited expressive performance control and were completely impractical for live use.

There have been many attempts since then to integrate the unlimited potential of modular analog synthesis with practical performance capabilities, and to provide the electronic music composer/performer with the kind of expressive musical control available in advanced acoustic instruments. Among of the most successful and creative of these efforts are the Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer and the Haken Continuum Fingerboard.

Buchla's 200e is the first modular analog synth with patch memory and the ability to re-route patchcords on the fly, making it an ideal instrument for performance, capable of both the highest and lowest levels of control. The Continuum is a unique multidimensional controller keyboard that senses direct finger movement in three dimensions (X, Y, and pressure) for each of up to 16 fingers, making it one of the most advanced performance controllers available today. Together, the 200e and the Continuum make for an electronic music performance system of unparalleled expressivity and sensitivity.

In his workshop, Richard will demonstrate the synthesis and control functions of the Buchla 200e with an emphasis on patch programming for maximum expressivity under Continuum control. The workshop will include a live performance focusing on the Continuum/Buchla 200e system's expressive control capabilities. Time permitting, workshop attendees will also have the opportunity to play the system themselves.

WORKSHOP BIO

Richard Lainhart is a composer, performer, and filmmaker based in New York. He studied composition and electronic music techniques with Joel Chadabe, a pioneer of electronic music and the designer of the Coordinated Electronic Music System (http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/cems.html and http://www.otownmedia.com/chadabe.jpg), at one time the largest integrated Moog synthesizer system in the world. From 1987-1990, Lainhart was the Technical Director for Intelligent Music, developers of innovative computer music software like M, Jam Factory, and UpBeat.

His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Japan. Recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records, ExOvo and Airglow Music labels and are distributed online via MusicZeit. As an active performer, Lainhart has appeared in public approximately 2000 times. Besides performing his own work, he has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. He has composed over 100 electronic and acoustic works, and has been making music for forty years.

Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown in festivals in the US, Canada, Germany, and Korea, and online at ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. His film "A Haiku Setting" won awards in several categories at the 2002 International Festival of Cinema and Technology in Toronto. In 2008, he was awarded a Film & Media grant by the New York State Council on the Arts for "No Other Time", full-length intermedia performance designed for a large reverberant space, combining live analog electronics with four-channel playback, and high-definition computer-animated film projection.

Richard Lainhart
http://www.otownmedia.com
http://www.downloadplatform.com/richard_lainhart
http://www.vimeo.com/rlainhart
http://www.airglowmusic.com

City Skies
http://www.cityskies.com
http://www.myspace.com/cityskiesfestival

Workshop tickets: $15
Performance tickets: $10
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/10495

-Jim"

Thursday, January 05, 2012

I Dream of Wires: Extended Interview Series: Richard Lainhart

Richard Lainhart: IDOW Extended Interview #1 from I Dream Of Wires on Vimeo.

"In the Summer of 2011, composer, author and filmmaker Richard Lainhart sat down with I DREAM OF WIRES director Robert Fantinatto to share his thoughts about electronic music, modular synthesizers and his approach to making music. Richard passed away on December 30th, 2011, we've posted this full-length interview for the many people whose lives were touched by his music.

R.I.P. Richard Lainhart
February 14, 1953 - December 30, 2011

For more information about Richard Lainhart:
otownmedia.com
downloadplatform.com/richard_lainhart
vimeo.com/rlainhart
youtube.com/rlainhart
richardlainhart.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/rlainhart

I DREAM OF WIRES: THE MODULAR SYNTHESIZER DOCUMENTARY is a documentary film about the history and resurgence of modular synthesizers. The film is currently in production. This is the first in a series of extended interviews, which will be produced and released in various formats throughout the production, and following the release, of the film. I DREAM OF WIRES extended interview segments are sponsored by MATRIXSYNTH (matrixsynth.com/)."

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http://www.indiegogo.com/I-Dream-of-Wires-film
http://m.matrixsynth.com/2011/12/rip-richard-lainhart-mel-morley-midimel.html

Thursday, February 11, 2010

No Other Time - Richard Lainhart

No Other Time - A Clouded Lens from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo.


"'No Other Time', a project for which I [Richard Lainhart] was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Film and Media grant in 2009. "No Other Time" is a full-length intermedia performance designed for a large reverberant space. combining live analog electronics with four-channel playback and high-definition computer-animated film projection. "The Pelagic Bell" was animated in Adobe After Effects. The soundtrack was performed and recorded in realtime with a Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer controlled by a Haken Continuum Fingerboard."


No Other Time - The Line of Division from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo.



No Other Time - The Pelagic Bell from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo.



No Other Time - The Edge of Meaning from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo.


Monday, July 12, 2010

Richard Lainhart & Thomas Zunk - Electronic Improvisation 1

Richard Lainhart & Thomas Zunk - Electronic Improvisation 1 from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo.


"Richard Lainhart and Thomas Zunk perform live at Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst 2010. Recorded July 4, 2010, in Schiphorst, Germany. In this free improvisation, Thomas plays a Moog Etherwave Theremin with a variety of processing pedals, and Richard plays a Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer controlled by a Haken Continuum three-dimensional keyboard controller."

Update via Richard Lainhart: "The musical sculptures you see in the background are the creation of Ferdinand Försch."

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

RICHARD LAINHART LUX

Another release by the late Richard Lainhart featuring Buchla & Haken Continuum available at Important Records. You can find a video for LUX previously posted here.

"Printed inkless in memorium, marking the death of a sensitive and innovative artist. Edition of 100.

Side 1 (38:25, with 2-second gap between tracks)

1. LUX (19:21)
2. Still of Noon (19:03)

Side 2 (39:03, with 2-second gap between tracks)

3. Twenty Chords (13:08)
4. The Line of the Horizon (16:13)
5. Oraison (9:40)
(by Olivier Messaien,1937, transcribed and performed by Richard Lainhart.)

Performed and recorded in realtime, without edits or overdubs, on a Buchla 200e system controlled with a Haken Continuum multidimensional keyboard.

© 2011 Richard Lainhart"

Follow-up to Richard Lainhart & Lucio Menegon - An Abandoned Garden Now Available

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Richard Lainhart live at Alfa Art Gallery (Part 1) for the Omega Sound Fix Festival


Richard Lainhart live at Alfa Art Gallery (Part 1) for the Omega Sound Fix Festival from Pas Musique on Vimeo.

Richard Lainhart live at Alfa Art Gallery (Part1) for the Omega Sound Fix Festival, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 11-20-2010. Video by PAS



www.myspace.com/pas-music



Richard Lainhart live at Alfa Art Gallery (Part II) for the Omega Sound Fix Festival from Pas Musique on Vimeo.

Richard Lainhart live at Alfa Art Gallery (Part II) for the Omega Sound Fix Festival New Brunswick, New Jersey, 11-20-2010. Video by PAS



www.myspace.com/pas-music

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Richard Lainhart: CEMS, Theremin, and Ondes Martenot Lecture, BEAF 2011


YouTube Uploaded by matrixsynth on Jun 1, 2011

First three parts of Richard Lainhart's lecture at the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival on Friday, May 6, 2011, 2PM PST. These cover the CEMS (Coordinated Electronic Music Studio - see the CEMS label below for more), theremin, and ondes Martenot. The audio on these are a little on the low side so remember to turn your speakers back down after listening. You can find a full transcript for each part below in case you can't quite make things out. You can catch Richard Lainhart's lecture on the Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum, followed by a performance, in this previous post.

Transcripts for the above three videos:

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Richard Lainhart A Performance at Soundscapes

Another chance to see Richard Lainhart with the Haken Continuum and Buchla 200e live:

"Friends: approaching the end of a busy month of performing, I'd like to invite you to my film and music performance at Soundscapes in Nazareth, PA, on Friday, May 21 at 8PM:

http://soundscapes.us/index.html

I'll be playing a set of music for Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum and one for electric guitar with laptop processing, providing live improvised soundtracks for some of my recent films.

In addition, I'd like to direct your attention to a set of high-quality downloadable MP3s from three of this month's performances - first, a set of four pieces for electric guitar, electric lapsteel, Kyma, and Macbook from my hour-long live online audio/video stream for ImprovFriday (http://improvfriday.ning.com/) from May 7:

Richard Lainhart ImprovFriday 5-7-10 by rlainhart

Next, a half-hour program of music for Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum from a performance on May 10 at LMAKprojects gallery in Manhattan (http://www.lmakprojects.com/projects?id=52):

Lainhart@LMAKseries 5-10-10 by rlainhart

Finally, a relatively short improvisation for Buchla/Continuum from the Pocono Skies electo-music festival (http://poconoskies.com/) in Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania, on May 15:

Richard Lainhart @ Pocono Skies 5-15-10 by rlainhart

I hope you enjoy the tracks, and to see you at Soundscapes. Thanks!"

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

tranzducer - Richard Lainhart and the Buchla 200e Live

via Richard Lainhart:
"Friends: for those in the New York area, I'll be playing a live set at Tranzducer Friday, November 30, at 8PM. I'll be performing with my Buchla/Continuum system and showing some of my films as well, including the premieres of "One Year" and "Lux". Admission is $5. Thanks - I hope to see you there."

click here for the official site on event.

"This month, we have an excellent lineup featuring Richard Lainhart (performing with incredible rig of old analog electronic gear), Rui Pereira, and Syadu Oosepfri. Be aware - tranzducer will be taking a little hiatus following this next show… all the more reason to make it down for tranzducer.011!

Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker-a digital artisan who works with sonic and visual data. Since childhood, he’s been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds that are as beautiful as he can make them. “Lainhart crafts sounds in a tonal, musical fashion- sustained tones, drones, melodic fragments-and electronically manipulates them into beautiful tapestries of sound” (Waterfront Week). [His] “music reflects the spirit of possibility that once defined electronicmusic, bringing with it a sense of past, present and future that transcends time, technology and cultural assumptions. The spell-binding music seemed to evoke feelings that can’t quite be named, and suggest music I might rather imagine for myself in silence than trust most composers to compose” (The Village Voice). “He’s evolveda singular vision as a composer, performer and engineer of darkly seductive minimalism” (Peter Marsh, BBC)."

Bios on Rui Pereira and Syadu Afppmeefppthu Oosepfris after the hop.

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Lainhart Live Online Audio/Video Performance Friday May 7


"Friends: Sponsored by the ImprovFriday group, I'll be performing a realtime audio/video set from my studio on Friday, May 7, at 9 PM EDST (GMT -4). In honor of ImprovFriday, I'll be playing structured improvisations for electric guitar and lapsteel processed with the Kyma System and laptop, and streaming live video and audio of the event with interactive chat on the ImprovFriday site:

http://improvfriday.ning.com/

To find your local time, go here

I hope you can tune in, and I encourage you to join the ImprovFriday group for more wonderful spontaneous music from around the world."

Richard Lainhart will also be performing Monday May 10 with Buchla and Haken Continuum along with Jessica Feldman and Michael V. Waller:

"LMAKseries - Live audiovisual performance event

Monday, May 10, 7:30 pm
Featuring: Jessica Feldman, Richard Lainhart and Michael V. Waller

Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, filmmaker, and author - a digital artisan who workswith sonic and visual data. Since childhood, he's been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds and images that are as beautiful as he can make them. Lainhart studied composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany. He has composed music for film, television, CD-ROMs, interactive applications, and the Web. His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Japan. Recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records, Airglow Music, Tobira Records, Infrequency, VICMOD, and ExOvo labels. He has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. In 2008, he was commissioned by the Electronic Music Fondation to contribute a work to New York Soundscape. Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown at festivals in the US, the UK, Canada, Portugal, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and Korea, and online at Souvenirs From Earth, ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. In 2009, he was awarded a Film & Media grant by the New York State Council on the Arts. In January 2010, he performed as a featured Live Media audio-visual artist at Netmage 2010 in Bologna, Italy."

LMAKprojects
139 Eldridge Street
New York NY 10002

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Lainhart Films At L.A. Festival

"Films "One Year" and "drift" to be screened at L.A. International Festival of Cinema and Technology

Richard Lainhart, award-winning composer, filmmaker, and author, is pleased to announce that two of his short films, "One Year" and "drift", have been accepted for screening at the International Festival of Cinema and Technology's Visions of Movement, Art and Sound, Saturday February 7th in Los Angeles.

'One Year' is a year-long timescape of a maple tree in Lainhart's backyard, photographed daily with a digital still camera under computer control and assembled and processed in Adobe After Effects. The soundtrack is computer-processed bowed vibraphone, played and recorded live. 'drift' is an abstact HD film created entirely in Adobe After Effects. The soundtrack is an improvisation for lapsteel guitar processed with the Symbolic Sound Kyma System.

The International Fest of Cinema and Technology (IFCT) takes place at the Downtown Independent Theatre at 251 S. Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. This festival will be screening films from filmmakers around the world. The IFCT, (www.ifct.org) now in its 6th year, specializes in screening new animation and experimental film. The festival line-up also includes an array of exceptional narrative and documentary features and shorts.

The IFCT is designed to give exposure to independent films, many of which previously had been underexposed to the public. The festival's motto is it seeks to "discover the undiscovered film." The "technology" in the festival's name occurs both in the content of the festival, which tends to focus on themes of technology or feature unique creation techniques, as well as in the method of showcasing content at the events.

Richard Lainhart's "drift" and "One Year" will receive their L.A. premieres at the Festival's Visions of Movement, Art and Sound, Saturday February 7th. This showcase features cutting edge films with an intense focus on music and equally dynamic visuals. Along with Lainhart, presentations include 10 new and innovative music videos including Katy Davis' "Stay in My Memory" video for Bimm, SHTIL Music Video for Infectzia, and Hillside Music Video directed by Nir Ben Jacob for the band Sidewalk Fiction, among others. Other films in this screening sequence focusing on strong sounds and mesmerizing visuals include "Himalyanwalk" directed by Jeanet Snijders, "Motion" directed by John Osborne.

• For more information about Visions of Movement, Art and Sound http://www.ifct.org/ifctshortsdancemusicsound.html
• The festival website is http://www.ifct.org
• A schedule of festival screenings and directions to the venues can be found at http://www.ifct.org/ifctschedulelosangeles09.html
• For information on tickets or schedule contact admin@ifct.org.

For more about information about Richard Lainhart, visit http://www.otownmedia.com"

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Richard Lainhart @ City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival, buchla


YouTube via synthejim
"Excerpt of the Richard Lainhart set at the May 7-9, 2009 City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival at Kavarna in Decatur, GA. Richard uses a Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum controller and is being heard through a quad PA system in the venue."

Richard Lainhart Workshop Music #1 @ City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival


Richard Lainhart Workshop Music #2 @ City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival

Friday, May 05, 2006

Live Moog Space Jam Part II

"On Friday evening, May 19, starting at 7:00 PM EDST, musicians Jordan
Rudess and Richard Lainhart will perform live in WDFH's Studio 2.
Join us for Moog Space Jam Part II, hosted by Treavor Hastings.
Richard Lainhart and Jordan Rudess will be performing live, chatting,
and bringing along some influential music from their own libraries
for this three hour event.

Jordan is a world-class pianist as well as a highly accomplished
recording artist, composer, producer and performer, and has just
completed a world tour as keyboardist with the progressive rock group
Dream Theater. Richard Lainhart is an award winning composer,
author, and filmmaker. He is no stranger to the WDFH air waves and
has performed his own solo compositions with us several times in the
past. He and Jordan are coming back for their second round of Moog
Space improvisation.

Jordan will be performing on his vintage Moog Model D and Voyager
MiniMoogs, and Richard will be playing Moog virtual instruments
running on laptop and Muse Receptor. This is an event not to be
missed! Tune in at WDFH-FM 90.3 in the Lower Hudson River Valley or
online here at wdfh.org.

To find your local time, go here: http://www.greenwichmeantime.com
--

Richard Lainhart
O-Town Media
rlainhart[]otownmedia.com
http://www.otownmedia.com"

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Richard Lainhart & Lucio Menegon - An Abandoned Garden Now Available

You might remember An Abandoned Garden by the late Richard Lainhart & Lucio Menegon from this post back in January. The limited edition vinyl release is now available. The music features Richard Lainhart on Buchla 200e & Hakkan Continuum and Lucio Menegon on lapsteel with processing. Their music is utterly mesmerizing.  You can listen to it via the play button to the left and under the album cover image here.

Lucio Menegon on the release and the support in picking up a copy of the vinyl:  "An Abandoned Garden, my first ambient release (with the late Richard Lainhart) is FINALLY here and available for purchase. Really. No more false alarms. Rubber City Noise went out of their way to make this 100 run LTD ED LP with digital download package top notch and this was the reason for the production delay. It's a great listen and supports both the label and the artist. Please visit the Experimedia website. For the uninitiated, $20-something dollars is the average price for new vinyl with download. With the current state of mostly free music and horrible (CD) sales, this is one of the few working models for small labels. If you want the digital, you must buy the high-quality, beautifully packaged short run vinyl. If the vinyl run sells out, RCN gets their money back and we get our digital rights back."

Monday, September 27, 2010

Richard Lainhart @ Creative Music Incubator October 4 NYC

A chance to see a Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum live.

via Richard Lainhart
"Friends: on Monday, October 4, at 7:30PM, I'll be performing as one of a rotating group of improvisers at Creative Music Incubator at The Tank in Manhattan:

http://www.thetanknyc.org/music

Creative Music Incubator unites experimental sonic artists on the first Monday of every month to share creative concepts, explore new sonic possibilities and collaborate in new line ups and in unique situations. Each month is curated and hosted by a member of the NYC experimental music community. Creative Music Incubator is a monthly event produced by the Oxygen Music Collective and is dedicated to the experimentation and exploration of new sonic possibilities.

This month's lineup:

Richard Lainhart - Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum
Mitch Blank - Dulcimer
Tres Warren – Guitar

Richard Lainhart - Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum
Bob Siebert – Thumb Piano and Circuit Bent Casio SK-1
Tom Swirly – Electronic Woodwinds

Adam Dym – Tenor and Alto Saxohones
Lucio Menegon - Guitar
Brian Olin – Guitar

Brian Thayer - Guitar
Jon Worthley – Waterphone, Percussion, Toys
Steve Orbach – Sax, Drums

Damien Olsen - Synths
Isaac Taylor - Bass
Bob Siebert – Circuit Bent Casio SK-1


Tickets are $8 at the door, and I hope to see you there."
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