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of surfaces suggests an incremental process of reduction.
Compositional focus placed in the space between sounds and silence.
Barely audible events negotiated through surfaces-implied sounds
heard through the conduit of a surface, sounds in another room, in
between and beyond surface levels create the fabric of this work. of
surfaces is a space between the Chartier's pointalist series and the
layered orchestrations of decisive forms exploring the relationship
between sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening.

Richard Chartier, minimal sound artist/composer and graphic designer,
has recorded critically acclaimed solo recordings for such labels as
Trente Oiseaux (Germany), LINE (USA), Meme (Japan), Fallt (Ireland)
as well collaborative works with Nosei Sakata (*0) and Taylor Deupree
on 12k (USA). For his previous cd on LINE, series, Chartier was
awarded one of twelve Honorable Mentions in the category of Digital
Music by the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, 2001 (Linz, Austria).
series  has also been selected to be exhibited in the upcoming
Whitney Biennial, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York,
March -May of 2002.

His work has been featured on a number of international compilations
including 2001's Clicks & Cuts 2 (Mille Plateaux, Germany) and in
Computer Music Journal in conjunction with the essay "The Aesthetics
of Failure: Post-Digital Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music"
by Kim Cascone (MIT Press, USA).

Both his visual and sound works have been exhibited in many galleries
and artspaces including the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC),
Washington Project for the Arts Projectspace, and the Art Institute
of Chicago.  Over the past several years, he has been invited to
perform his sound work at live events in the United States, Canada,
and the UK including such noted international electronic music
festivals as MUTEK (Montreal), Lovebytes (Sheffield) and
Transmissions (Chicago).

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01.02.02 / 12k new release

cat no: 12k1017
artist: cascone + chartier + deupree
title: after
format: CD
edition: 500
release