Photo: Buchla 200e and Music Easel set-up for performance Analog Synth Showdown: Feb 18, 2011 at Silent Barn, Queens.
NOTE: Collected here are many different examples of the music Richard made over 30 years, including released and unreleased albums, commercial music, and private recordings.
Each link below will take you to another page with the album's cover art (whether as actually released or just as he imagined it) or a related image for the collection, a listing for each track, and, where available, commentary from Richard. Much of Richard's music has been collected on soundcloud.com.
In the time of Lainhart's Two Mirrors Face One Another (1976)...[he] moved away from physicality and became a perfumist, allowing sounds to seep into the senses as chemical reactions." —Ian Nagoski
MUSIC: Early Works │ Walking Slowly Backwards │ ROMworks │ Five Nocturnes │ WDFH August 25, 2005 │ KymaWorks │ BuchlaWorks
Recommended: Listen on headphones or external speakers.
Listen to electro-music.com/radio Interview
Richard talks with host EdisonRex about his influences, the meaning of One Sound.
(Interview recorded at Pocono Skies Pocono Skies Electronic Music Festival, May 2010)
More about Electro-Music.com: electro-music.com is a place where artists and musicians meet, collaborate, share our music and ideas, put on concerts and festivals. Here we nurture ourselves and our audiences. We create our own critical mass so we can develop music on its own terms. electro-music is new music; still undefined; happening all over our planet.
"I think I came up with some interesting sounds, at least, and even early on, I was clearly fascinated with drones and harmonics." — RL