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Washington-based disc-jockey
Richard Chartier (USA, 1971) is an ultra-minimalist composer who, starting with
Direct. Incidental. Consequental (Intransitive Recordings, 1998 - 3particles, 2003),
focused on
"silence music" a` la Bernhard Gunter and "deep listening" a` la Oliveros.
His microscopic exploration of the space between sounds and silence,
is best exemplified by his fourth solo album Series (Line, 2000)
and by Decisive Forms (Trente Oiseaux, 2001).
They are made of barely audible events in a digital soundscape; of
"implied sounds".
Spec (12k, 1999) was a collaboration with Taylor Deupree.
Post Fabricated (Microwave, 1999) was a naive exercise in abstract
electronic soundpainting. Chartier re-recorded it in 2005, adding a remix disc.
Overview (3particles)
0/r (12k, 1999) and Varied (12k, 2002) are two collaborations with Japanese minimalist Nosei Sakata (*0, pronounced "star zero"), both credited to 0/r, which paint a more chaotic and somewhat unsettling universe.
After (12k, 2002) documents a live 2001 collaboration with Kim Cascone and Taylor Deupree.
3_components (Fusebox, 2002)
For Morton Feldman (Trent Oiseaux, 2002)
Of Surfaces (Line, 2002) is another "micro-textured" album.
The title-track is the key composition here, a study in what one does not
hear when listening to music.
Other Materials (3particles, 2002) collects compositions from 1997-2001.
More movement surfaced in Two Locations (Line, 2003), which collects two sound installations of 2002.
He has collaborated with William Basinski (spekk, 2004).
Set or Performance (Line, 2004) documents a live performance focusing
on microsonic dissonances.
Kapotte Muziek (Korm Plastics, 2005) is a collaboration with
Boca Raton.
Chartier reprocessed old recordings from the 1990s to obtain the five pieces of
Retrieval 1-5 (ERS, 2006).
Tracing (Non Visual Objects, 2005) was one of the most austere and,
simultaneously, angelic demonstrations of Chartier's microtonal ambience.
Incidence (Raster-Noton, 2006) evoked the image of a symphony of extended drones.
Current (Room, 2006) was a mini-CD devoted to an exploration of microsounds.
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