Label: Periphery
Catalog#: OTP2011
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2011
DISCOGS OFFICIAL
1 An Open Hand 9:34
2 The Rising Night 8:42
3 Desert Gardens 8:37
4 The Naga 7:09
5 An Unknown Number 8:04
6 Under the Clock 6:16
7 Staring at the Moon 17:11
Archival, unreleased gems culled from Richard Lainhart’s prototypical late 80s phase, a continuation and summation of the varied modes of digital expression first actualized on his remarkable debut These Last Days, veering between wayward guitar mesmerics and drone existentialism to offworld tribal process music.
Performed and produced by Richard Lainhart, recorded in real time direct to stereo DAT
Tracks 1-6 engineered by James McLean, track 7 engineered by Richard Lainhart
"The Rising Night" (1986) and "An Unknown Number" (1988) are for Yamaha WX-7 MIDI wind controller with Korg DW-8000 and EX-8000 synthesizers and E-mu Emax samplers controlled by a Mac Plus running Opcode Vision. “The Naga" (1986) is for Lync LN-4 MIDI keyboard controlling a Kurzweil 150FS synthesizer (using a Balinese scale) with Vision-controlled synths and samplers. "Desert Gardens" (1986) is for Chapman Stick played with an Ebow and Vision-controlled synths and samplers. "An Open Hand" (1989) is for Chapman Stick solo with digital delays. "Under The Clock" (1988) is for KAT MalletKAT controlling Intelligent Music's (now Cycling 74's) M interactive MIDI performance software, which in turn controls E-mu samplers. "Staring at the Moon" (1987, revised 2003) is for bowed amplified vibraphone and M controlling software samplers playing bowed vibes samples. - discogs
bio.
Award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker Richard Lainhart is 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 and images that are as beautiful as he can make them. Studying composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany, Lainhart has gone on to compose music for film, television, CD-ROMs, and web-based applications. 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, Airglow, Tobira, Field Studies, Infrequency, VICMOD, and ExOvo labels. As an active performer and composer of over 150 electronic and acoustic works, Lainhart has appeared in public approximately 2000 times, and worked with such notable musicians as John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. - periphery.bandcamp.com
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