Visiting an installation directly is obviously an entirely different experience than merely listening to its soundtrack, due to the evident lack of a multi-sensorial impact that can’t be replicated at home and, especially in this circumstance, the extreme difficulty of finding a domestic environment quiet enough for the propagations to diffuse correctly and reveal their intrinsic character. This is a fundamental requirement in Richard Chartier’s music.

As tranquil as the place where I live may be, the reproduction level needed for actually understanding what goes on in Untitled (Angle.1) – the first collaboration of Chartier with visual artist Linn Meyers, whose implementation can be studied here- had to be set at about half of my amplifier’s power, otherwise many of the sounds present in the piece would disappear in the surrounding ambiance. The disc can reach barely audible levels, over-acute filaments willing to vanish amidst the evening crickets, or remaining at such a degree of scarce perceptibility that recognizing what was recorded sound or tinnitus-like inner-ear frequencies became increasingly hard. We’re talking near-subliminal. But after setting the volume at around 12 o’clock the richness is indeed there for us to be conquered by, a purifying blend of electronic light particles dancing in the air, pallid discharges of subtly echoing electronics and unvarying currents of gaseous exhalations tending to the mysterious side of the sonic spectrum. It doesn’t change too much from this basic recipe, yet the 36-minute mark is reached in a breeze and a new spin becomes an instant must.

At the risk of repeating myself, those who reside in a noisy environment will get better results using isolating headphones - which, in any case, is not exactly the most plausible method for appreciating Chartier’s nerve-calming designs. It’s like watching a firefly in a can instead of marveling at its glowing radiance in the nocturnal countryside
(massimo ricci, bagatellen)

Pay no attention to Chartier..s instructions that “this work is intended for quiet amplification”. At low levels, it is entirely inaudible, leaving me to check if the CD was actually playing. But when turned up and/or with headphones, it yields extraordinary results. A soundtrack to a suitably minimlal installation of Linn Meyer..s razor-thin line drawings that resemble topographic maps, Untitled (Angle.1) whispers its low-impact dub abross a soft hush of denuded white noise. Chartier deftly overlaps his aerated hummings whith sympathetic tones to produce a slow-moving yet very impressive harmonic grounding structure. Upon this stoic undulation, he flashes self-replicating splutters of digital ephemera – a flange here, a timestretched blur there – harking back to late period :zoviet*france:.
(The Wire, UK)

richard chartier . update
august 2009



happy summer to you all. hope you are not melting...

r



- NEW + RECENT RELEASES -
a limited number of these & other releases are available via the new online paypal CD + DOWNLOAD SHOP:

CD . Untitled(angle.1) [ Non Visual Objects, AT ]. 30 copies signed. 12 remaining.

also... I have remastered these releases and making them available in a Lossless M4A format. This format does not reduce the sound quality. After many tests i
felt that these particular works would not be done justice via a standard MP3 format. i wanted to make these works available again to be heard fully.

each full download is only $10 (US) each. purchasers will receive an email with a unique URL for downloading. and you can drop it right into your Itunes (etc).

REISSUES/REMASTERS
High Quality downloads for:
• Decisive Forms  + How Things Change (out of print with bonus track)
• Tracing  (out of print)
• Incidence+preIncidence  ( 17:36 exclusive unreleased piece)
• A Hesitant Fold (long out of print)
• Retrieval 1-5 + Retrieval Path
• Archival 1991 + 1992 (out of print with bonus track)

COMING SOON:
• Series + bonus tracks
• Of Surfaces + bonus tracks
• Two Locations + bonus tracks

you can also purchase downloads of many releases via  Emusic + Boomkat + Itunes



- CURRENT EVENTS + FUTURE RELEASES, EVENTS, ETC -

EXHIBIT . "Camera Lucida" by Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand, sound ( Specification.sixteen ) by Richard Chartier + Taylor Deupree @ Santral Museum [ Istanbul, TR ] March 20-Sept 20, 2009

ARTICLE . Pisano, Leandro. "La Superficie Del Silenzio", Blow Up, # 134/135 (July/August 2009), Italy: 124-129 DOWNLOAD PDF

ARTICLE . Kudryavtsev, Vlad. "Linear Music: Richard Chartier", Electronic Music Magazine, #3 (2009), Russia: p 1,3, 10-15 DOWNLOAD PDF

CURATORIAL/SCREENING . Colorfield Variations @ Staatsgalerie Stuttgart [ Stuttgart, DE ] Sept 3, 2009

PUBLICATION . photos in The Graphic Eye by Stefan Bucher [ Rotovision, UK / Chronicle Books, US ] October 2009

CURATORIAL/SCREENING . Colorfield Variations @ Dis-patch Festival [ Belgrade, Serbia ] Oct 23-Nov 8, 2009 TBC

CURATORIAL/SCREENING . Colorfield Variations @ LIFEM: London International Festival of Exploratory Music [ London, UK ] Nov 4-7, 2009

PUBLICATION . Packaging Identity by Pedro Guitton [ Index, Spain ] Fall 2009

CD . Fabrication 2 with Asmus Tietchens [ Auf Abwegen, DE ] Fall 2009

DVD . "Sonolevitation" (with Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand) in 5.1 surround on Optofonica [ LINE, US ] Fall 2009

EXHIBIT . "Fly 2008" video by Al Miner, sound by Richard Chartier @ G Fine Art [ DC ] 2009

CD . A Field for Mixing [TBC] 2009

PUBLICATION . "On Liquid Sky" in The Book of Guilty Pleasures edited by Song Ming Ang + Kim Cascone [ TBC ] 2009

CURATORIAL . seasonal sound art series of concerts/events with 88 Space. Washington, DC. 2010

CD . Transparency 1+2 [TBC] 2010

COLLABORATION . Sirens. Project direction by: Thanasis Kaproulias | Novi_sad.  Participants: CM von Hausswolff, Richard Chartier, Beckie Foon [A silver Mt. zion, Set fire to flames],  Jacob Kirkegaard, Helge Sten [Deathprod, Supersilent] 2010

CURATORIAL . I am currently curating a sound/video installation exhibit at the Art Gallery of the University of Maryland [ USA ] February 2010. titled "Data.Waves.Audio.Lines" more information can be found under EXHBITS/CURATORIAL PROJECTS on my website.

PUBLICATION . Listening Electronically: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music by Joanna Demers [ Oxford University Press ] 2010. This book features a chapter on Minimalism which focuses' on my work as well as Ryoji Ikeda, Miki Yui, and Kim Cascone.



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richard chartier . downloads
mid-june 2009



hello to you all,

just a brief announcement that there is a new downloads section of my online shop.

I have remastered these releases and making them available in a Lossless M4A format. This format does not reduce the sound quality. After many tests i felt that these particular works would not be done justice via a standard MP3 format. i wanted to make these works available again to be heard fully.

each full download is only $10 (US) each. purchasers will receive an email with a unique URL for downloading.


REISSUES/REMASTERS
High Quality downloads for:
• Decisive Forms  + How Things Change (out of print with bonus track)
• Tracing  (out of print)
• Incidence+preIncidence  ( 17:36 exclusive unreleased piece)
• A Hesitant Fold (long out of print)
• Retrieval 1-5 + Retrieval Path
• Archival 1991 + 1992 (out of print with bonus track)

COMING SOON:
• Series + bonus tracks
• Of Surfaces + bonus tracks
• Two Locations + bonus tracks


NOW AVAILABLE
CD . Untitled(angle.1) [ NonVisualObjects, AT ] limited edition of 300 (30 signed via my online shop )



thank you for your continued supprt of my work :)

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RICHARD CHARTIER: news/exhibit/event/release update. 03.2009

linn meyers + richard chartier
Untitled (2008-2009)


a new 8-channel digital sound and wall drawing installation
as part of Linn Meyers exhibit here today

February 11 – March 13, 2009
Opening Reception Wednesday, February 11, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Public talk with Linn Meyers & Richard Chartier
Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm


The Art Gallery
University of Maryland, College Park

Linn
Meyers is the first participant in the artist-in-residence program at
The Art Gallery. The Art Gallery launched an artist-in-residence
program as an opportunity for artists to create site-specific
installations and to give artists a space in which to imagine new ways
to work. The residency is followed by an exhibition of the realized
project and, in this instance, documented through time- lapse video and
accompanied by a color brochure.

here today showcases two
large-scale wall drawings by Linn Meyers. The wall drawings reflect a
current trend occurring in her work in which the center of the image is
filled with pulsating, curvilinear forms winding in a dramatic and
moving pattern that reverberates out to the edges with fewer and more
defined repeated lines.  Visitors are immediately aware of
transformation of the gallery space with the construction of a
forty-four foot long concave wall covered by Meyers’ drawing, the
artist’s largest wall drawing to date.  The exhibition also features a
number of smaller drawings on mylar, and what Meyers refers to as
“preparatory drawings” created as part of the process leading up to the
wall drawings.

The back gallery space features a unique first
collaborative project between Meyers and sound artist Richard Chartier,
in an installation where optical and sonic patterns intersect. With
another architectural transformation of the gallery space, two fifteen
foot long by eight foot high walls meet in an enfolding chevron,
creating both a sound chamber and a drawing surface. The swirling lines
of Meyers' drawing, made directly on the surface of the walls, fuse
together with the sound piece by Chartier, juxtaposing the organic and
the digital into unified sensorial space. With eight audio transducers
applied directly to the back surface of the walls, Chartier's stark
composition modulates and transfers through the surfaces.

Linn Meyers
is an artist based in Washington D.C. Her art is featured in many
collections throughout the country including: The Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, DC; and the New Britain Museum of American Art, New
Britain, CT. Her art has been featured in exhibitions at the Bus-dori
Project Space and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Tokyo,
Japan; Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, PA; G Fine Art in Washington, DC;
and Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York City.  She received her BFA
at The Cooper Union in New York and her MFA at the California College
of the Arts in San Francisco.

Richard Chartier
is a sound/installation artist based in Washington D.C. His minimalist
sound works and installations have been presented internationally in
exhibitions at museums and galleries including: the ICC
(Intercommunication Center) in Tokyo, Japan; Castello di Rivoli in
Torino, Italy; Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; The Art
Institute of Chicago; and G Fine Art in Washington, DC.  He has
performed his works live throughout the world at festivals, museums and
art spaces in Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America.

CATALOG.
Featuring an interview with Linn Meyers by Jefferson Pinder, assistant
professor in the Department of Art, and Lara Langer, Ph.D. student in
the Department of Art History and Archaeology. Including full color
illustrations of the two large wall drawings created in situ during
Meyers artist-in-residence at The Art Gallery in January – February,
2009.

CD. a stereo composition based on the installation work will be released in March 2009 by the label Non Visual Objects (Austria) as a CD limited edition of 300. 


The Art Gallery
Second floor atrium
University of Maryland, College Park
tel 301.405.2763
fax 301.314.7774
theartgallery@umd.edu

Gallery hours
Monday through Saturday, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Wednesday, 11:00 - 6:00 pm

www.artgallery.umd.edu


RICHARD CHARTIER
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the cover for the new U2 album uses the same photo by Hiroshi Sugimoto that was used for the Taylor Deupree + Richard Chartier CD "Specification.Fifteen" (based on Sugimoto's work) from 2006.