Richard Chartier (born March 29, 1971) is a sound/installation artist and

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from the United States. He works in reductionist

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, a form of extreme

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characterised by quiet and sparse sound.

Early life and education

Chartier was born in

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, in 1971, and studied at

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, from 1989 to 1993, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts

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with a Concentration in Graphic Design and Painting.

Career

Chartier's sound works and sound installations have been included in the exhibits Sounding Spaces at ICC (Tokyo, Japan), I Moderni / The Moderns at Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy), 2002 Biennial at the

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, Resynthesis at the

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and with the traveling sound exhibit Invisible Cities created by digital media curators Fehler as well as solo and collaborative installations for Fusebox (DC), 1515 Arts/G Fine Art (DC), Die Schachtel (Milan, Italy), and Diapason (New York). He has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at MUTEK (Montreal, Canada), GRM/Maison de Radio France (Paris, France), Observatori (Valencia, Spain), DEAF (Dublin, Ireland),

Transmediale Transmediale, stylised as transmediale is an annual festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, usually held over five days at the end of January and the beginning of February. Transmediale takes the form of a conference (sometimes calle ...

(Berlin, Germany), Lovebytes (Sheffield, UK), the Leeds International Film Festival (Leeds, UK), the

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(NE), Garage (Stralsund, Germany), La Batie (Geneva, Switzerland), and other digital art/music festivals and at exhibits such as Frequenzen zat the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt) and ''A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968'' and ''Visual Music'' at the

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(Los Angeles). In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE, which releases compositional and installation work by sound artists and composers working with contemporary and digital minimalism, including Bernhard Gunter, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree, Christopher Willits, Roel Meelkop, Carsten Nicolai/ Alva Noto,

Asmus Tietchens Asmus Tietchens (born 3 February 1947, in Hamburg), who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music. Tietchens became interested in experimental music and musique concrète as a chi ...

, Mark Fell and the first full-length CDs by Miki Yui, Skoltz_Kolgen, and Steinbruchel. The first release on LINE, Chartier's ''Series'', was awarded Honorable Mention in the category of Digital Music by the Prix Ars Electronica, 2001 (Austria). In 2006 he was commissioned by the

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and Sculpture Garden to create a collaborative sound performance work in conjunction with the Hiroshi Sugimoto retrospective exhibit. This work, entitled ''Specification. Fifteen'', was awarded one of five Honorable Mentions for outstanding contemporary artistic positions in digital media art by the jury of the Transmediale.07 Award Competition in Germany, and exhibited as a recording and presented as a live performance with a new video work created from Sugimoto's Seascapes at the Akademie der Kuenste (Berlin). In 2009, Richard Chartier presented a collaborative installation with visual artist

Linn Meyers Linn Meyers (born March 17, 1968) is an American, Washington, D.C.–based artist. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad. She is known for her hand-drawn lines and tracings for site-specific installations. Early life and t ...

. ''Untitled'', exhibited at the Art Gallery of University of Maryland (US) two by walls meet in an enfolding chevron, creating both a sound chamber and a drawing surface. The swirling lines of Meyers' drawing were drawn directly on the surface of the walls, accompanied by a sound piece by Chartier. With eight audio transducers applied directly to the back surface of the walls, Chartier's composition modulates and transfers through the surfaces. ''Untitled(Angle.1)'', a stereo composition based on ''Untitled'' was released on Non Visual Objects (Austria) as a limited edition CD. In March 2010, Chartier was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship to study the National Museum of American History's collection of 19th Century acoustic apparatus for scientific demonstration. Chartier will focus specifically on the many sirens, waveforms, and other inventions of the German physicist Rudolf Koenig including the Grand Tonometer (c. 1870–1875), the only instrument of its kind in existence. Since 1998, Chartier has created recordings for labels such as LINE (USA), Raster-Noton (Germany), Die Stadt (Germany), Spekk (Japan), 12k (US) Mutek rec (Canada), DSP (Italy), ERS (Netherlands), Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Fallt (Ireland),

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(USA), and collaborated with artists Taylor Deupree,

William Basinski William Basinski (born June 25, 1958) is an American avant-garde composer based in Los Angeles, California. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist. Basinski is best known for his four-volume album '' The Disint ...

, CoH,

Kim Cascone Kim Cascone (December 21, 1955) is an Italian American composer of electronic music who is known for his releases in the ambient, drone, industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record label, Silent Records. Biography In 1989 Cas ...

, and

Selected discography

Solo Recordings

*''A Field for Recording'' CD (2010,

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) *''Untitled(Angle.1)'' CD (2009, NVO) *''Further Materials'' CD (2008,

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) *''Absence'' CD (2008, 3particles) *''Incidence'' CD (2007, Raster-Noton) *''Current'' CD (2006,

) *''Levels(Inverted)'' CD (2006, LINE) *''Tracing'' CD (2005, NVO) *''Opening Coccyx'' Die Schachtel, Italy] CD/Edition 2005 *''Retrieval 1-5'' RS, NetherlandsCD 2005 *''Re'post'postfabricated'' SP, Italy(reformed+remixes) 2xCD 2005 *''Set or Performance'' INE, USCD 2004 *''Archival1991'' routon, USCD 2003 *''Overview'' 3particles, US] CD 2003 *''Two Locations'' INE, USCD 2003 *''Other Materials'' particles, USCD 2003 *''of surfaces'' INE, USCD 2002 *''typeof'' Fällt, N.Ireland] 3" CD 2001 *''decisive forms'' Trente Oiseaux, Germany] CD 2001 *''series'' INE, USCD 2000 / reissued 2001 *''a hesitant fold'' eme, JapanCD 1999 *''post-fabricated'' icrowave, NetherlandsCDR 1999 *''direct.incidental.consequential'' ntransitive, USCD 1998

Collaborative Recordings

*''Fabrication 2'' (with Asmus Tietchens) 2CD (2010, Auf Abwegen) *Untitled 1-3 (with William Basinski) INE, USACD 2008 *Fabrication (with Asmus Tietchens) ie Stadt, Germany2CD 2007 *Specification. Fifteen (with Taylor Deupree) INE, USCD 2006 *Live in Los Angeles (as CHESSMACHINE) INE, USCD 2005 *Chessmachine (with COH)

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CD 2004 *William Basinski + Richard Chartier pekk, JapanCD 2004 *Varied as 0/r (with Nosei Sakata) 2k, USCD 2002 *after (Cascone + Chartier + Deupree) 2k, USCD 2002 *SPEC. (with Taylor Deupree) 2k, USCD 1999 *0/r (with Nosei Sakata) 2k, USD 1999

Bibliography

*Demers, Joanna. ''Listening Through The Noise''. New York: Oxford University Press. 2010.

Footnotes

External links

Richard Chartier's homepage
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