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Schiphorst Avantgarde Festival
» Richard performed live solo electroacoustic music with his Buchla/Continuum analog modular synthesizer system Friday night, Jul 2, and on Sunday afternoon, Jul 4, with thereminist Thomas Zunk. The performance included the world premieres of our transcriptions of two sections from Olivier Messaien's "Quartet for the End of Time", arranged for Theremin and Buchla.

The entire festival was broadcast live on http://www.rockradio.de/

» A unique limited-release Festival Edition of Richard's upcoming new Ex Ovo CD "Cranes Fly West" was available at Avantgarde Schiphorst.

» See a preview of the CD design from Ex Ovo and links to Festival sites.



» ImprovFriday Group: Mar 26, 2010
Direct recording of streaming live performance available on Soundcloud.

» Two discs of Richard's early Moog recordings have been released by VICMOD Records — "The Wave Sounding Sea" and "The Course of the River."
 

» Richard's Buchla 200e performance track "Lift-Off" has been accepted for
a new music compilation CD produced by Maison d'Ailleurs ("House of Elsewhere"), a museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journeys located in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland). The Maison d'Ailleurs, the only public institution of its kind in the world, is a non-profit foundation functioning both as a public museum and a specialized research center.

» Richard's short laptop/lapsteel piece "Abyss" has been included in the
"Smooth Space" compilation as part of Vague Terrain 15: .microsound.

» The complete program for Audioscope 2009, a one day music festival heldin Oxford UK
to benefit the national homelessness charity, Shelter, is on Vimeo. Richard's films "Pneuma" and "LUX" were included.

» Nov 25-29, 2009 – Barcelona, Spain
RIchard is pleased to announce that his film "Pneuma" has been accepted for the Punto y Raya 2009 Festival in Barcelona..

» Sep 19-20, 2009 – Bath, UK
Richard's film "Pneuma" was shown at Seeing Sound in Bath, UK. Here's an overview of the event (click on Screenings to see some info about all the films shown, including Richard's).

» Tokafi reviews Japanese vinyl release "Richard Lainhart & Hakobune split"

» Richard Lainhart's work can now be seen on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH,
     broadcasting high quality Film and Video Art on the European Cable Network.

» Nov 15, 2009 – Rome, Italy
RIchard's film "Dift" is chosen for the Electronic and Electroacoustic Music
EMUFEST 2009.

» Richard Awarded NYSCA Grant
Richard has been awarded a Film & Media grant by the New York State Council on the Arts for "No Other Time", full-length intermedia performance designed for a large reverberant space, combining live analog electronics with four-channel playback, and high-definition computer-animated film projection The work was premiered at Re:Soundings in Valley Falls, NY in Oct 2009.

>> Richard answers 15 questions in his latest interview with Tokafi.

>> White Night released by ExOvo (EXO1974)
Written in 1974, this is a first-time release on CD of Richard Lainhart's masterpiece in its original 29-minute version. White Night is available in Europe from Ex Ovo and in the US from CDeMUSIC . Read recent online reviews of White Night.

>> Richard's music now available on musiczeit.com
Feb 2008 — "THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE SKY" and "THESE LAST DAYS" are now available for purchase at musiczeit.com
Jan 2008 — The recordings "5 NOCTURNES" and "STARING AT THE MOON" are now available for purchase at musiczeit.com

>> Richard's studio and work featured at TRASH_AUDIO blogspot

>> Richard Lainhart and Jordan Rudess Electronic Improvisations.
These are free improvisations based on exploring the sounds, tonalities, and textures available from electronic instruments and processing. There are no rules as such, and basically anything goes, but they are usually performed with live electronics rather than with pre-recorded material, to allow for the greatest improvisational freedom. Since sonic exploration is the main goal, the textures can range from simple chord changes and melodies to non-tonal noise, and anywhere in between, with sounds you've never heard before, and will never hear again. We think we reached that goal, and we hope you'll join us with open ears on the journey. Richard Lainhart and Jordan Rudess electronic improvisations are now available for sale from Jordan's Download Store.

>> Read Tokafi's review of "A Fistful Of Patchcords", the DVD of Richard and Jordan's live
      electronic performance from 2006.

>> Read Richard's second interview with Tokafi, focusing on his collaboration with Jordan Rudess.

>> Listen to KALW Radio interview Richard about his music.

>> German magazine "Tokafi" (formerly "Mouvement Nouveau") interviews
      Richard about his music - www.tokafi.com

>> German magazine "Tokafi" publishes insightful article on Richard's music: www.tokafi.com

>> Richard answers the question "Why do you use unconventional techniques?"
      posed by New Music Box - www.newmusicbox.org