Richard Devine is an

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ian and

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. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from

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to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the

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, which was founded by Josh Kay of

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. He has also done extensive recording and sample work with Josh Kay under the name DEVSND. As a result of praise of his music from

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as well as a

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's " Come to Daddy", Devine recorded an album for

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which was jointly released by

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and

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. Devine first started using computers for composition around 1993. Don Hassler, an instructor at the Atlanta College of Art, got him interested in computer synthesis, introducing Devine to

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and other powerful computer-based applications. Devine coded his own FFT applications in

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, an environment and programming language for real-time audio synthesis. “It’s interesting, because you’re doing things to sound that just aren’t physically possible.” Devine also uses

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(NI) software and has used

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ReBirth RB-338 and

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. His favorite NI applications are

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and Absynth. Devine has designed sound patches for

, NI’s Absynth, Reaktor, Battery and Massive, along with providing sound patches to

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's award-winning Animoog app. As a sound designer, he collaborated with electronic musician BT in the film '' Look''. He has also scored commercials for

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and engineered and performed his own music worldwide. Though he has contributed sound design to a number of hardware and software manufacturers, he recently released his first official sample library through Sony Creative Software entitled "The Electronic Music Manuscript: A Richard Devine Collection". He made additional contributions for the video games '' Doom'' and ''

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''.

Discography

* ''Sculpt'' (1995) ( Tape) * ''Richard Coleman Devine EP'' (1997) (

SCH005 12") * ''Lipswitch'' (2000) (Schematic/

SCH015/WAP139 LP CD) * ''Aleamapper'' (2001) (Schematic SCH019 LP CD) * ''Asect:Dsect'' (2003) (Schematic SCH023 LP CD) * ''Cautella'' (2005) (Sublight SLR601 CD) * ''RISP'' (2012) (Detroit Underground) * ''Sort\Lave'' (2018) (Timesig) * ''Systik'' (2020) (BLK_Noise)

References

External links

Devine Sound

Schematic Records

Warp Records

Sublight Records, Inc.
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