[atlantaprog] Re: [eyedrum-announcement-list] April 5 ? April 9, 2006

Sound very fascinating.
   
  BTW, are they doing an improv night this Thursday?

Allen Welty-Green <agmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  You folks would be crazy to miss this one:

> April 9 Sunday
>
> Robert Rich/Diana Obscura
> Music
> 8:00pm
> $9
>
>
>
> Robert Rich Biography
>
> With over two dozen albums, Robert Rich has helped define the genres 
> of ambient music, dark-ambient, tribal and trance, yet his music 
> remains hard to categorize. Part of his unique sound comes from using 
> home-made acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal tunings, 
> computer-based signal processing, chaotic systems and feedback 
> networks. Rich began building his own analog synthesizers in 1976, 
> when he was 13 years old, and later studied for a year at Stanford's 
> Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). 
>
> Rich released his first album Sunyata in 1982. Most of his subsequent 
> recordings came out in Europe until 1989, when Rich began a string of 
> critically acclaimed releases for Fathom/Hearts of Space, including 
> Rainforest (1989), Gaudí (1991), Propagation (1994) and Seven Veils 
> (1998). His two collaborations with Steve Roach, Strata (1990) and 
> Soma (1992), both charted for several months in Billboard. Other 
> respected collaborations include Stalker (1995 with B. Lustmord), 
> Fissures (1997 with Alio Die) and Outpost (2002 with Ian Boddy.) 
> Rich's contributions to multi-artist compilations have been collected 
> on his solo albums A Troubled Resting Place (1996) and Below Zero 
> (1998). He also records with his group, Amoeba, exploring atmospheric 
> songcraft on their CDs Watchful (1997) and Pivot (2000). Live albums 
> such as Calling Down the Sky (2004) and 3-CD Humidity (2000) document 
> the unique improvised flow of his recent performances. 
>
> Rich has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and 
> concert halls throughout Europe and North America. His all-night Sleep 
> Concerts, first performed in 1982, became legendary in the San 
> Francisco area. In 1996 he revived his all-night concert format, 
> playing Sleep Concerts for live and radio audiences across the U.S. 
> during a three month tour. In 2001 Rich released the 7 hour DVD 
> Somnium, a studio distillation of the Sleep Concert experience, 
> possibly the longest continuous piece of music ever released. 
>
> Rich has designed sounds for television and film scores, including the 
> films Pitch Black, Crazy Beautiful, Behind Enemy Lines and others. His 
> musical score graces Yahia Mehamdi's documentary on worker's 
> compensation, Thank You for your Patience. Rich has worked closely 
> with electronic instrument manufacturers, and his sound design fills 
> the preset libraries of Emu's Proteus 3 and Morpheus, Seer Systems' 
> Reality, sampling disks Things that Go Bump in the Night, ACID Loop 
> Library Liquid Planet, and the TimewARP2600 soft-synth by WayOutWare. 
> Rich has written software for composers who work in just intonation, 
> and he helped develop the MIDI microtuning specification, which was 
> accepted as an industry standard. As mastering engineer, he has 
> applied his ear to dozens of albums, and his studio was featured twice 
> in Keyboard Magazine. 
>
> For more information about Robert Rich, visit www.robertrich.com. 
>
>
>
> Diana Obscura Biography 
>
> Diana Obscura creates spare, powerful, and evocative songs for cello 
> and voice, which are influenced by early and avant classical music. 
> Damon Young (of The Changelings) has teamed up with her on the new 
> project, adding electronic sounds and manipulation, field recordings, 
> guitar, and percussion. 
>
> Diana has played and recorded with The Living Jarboe (swans) and 
> neo-classic/medieval trio Aphelion. The most recent CD release was 
> recorded as a live soundtrack for the art of EK Huckaby. She is 
> currently featured on the soundtrack of the independent film Ashtide, 
> playing with the Hungry Flower Gamelan, and working on a full length 
> ambient CD with Damon Young. 
>
> "Watching ethereal vocalist and cellist Diana Obscura, the listener 
> gets the feeling that she has stepped out of a fractured fairy tale 
> book. With her wild mane of hair and her cello poised low, she attacks 
> the instrument with the fury of Johnny Ramone and the reckless grace 
> of a possessed Cinderella." -Lee Smith, Creative Loafing
>
> presented by euphonic productions




Hoo Hoooo  Hoo Hoooooo

Phil

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