Artist description With over 20 albums to his name, Robert Rich has helped define the genres of ambient music, dark-ambient, tribal and trance, yethis 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 ownanalog synthesizers in 1976, when he was 13 years old, and later studied for a year at Stanford's Center for Computer Research inMusic and Acoustics (CCRMA).Rich released his first album in 1982. Most of his subsequent recordings came out in Europe until 1989, when Rich began a stringof 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 severalmonths in Billboard. Other collaborations include Yearning (1995, with Lisa Moskow), Stalker (1995, with B. Lustmord) andFissures (1997, with Alio Die.) Rich's contributions to multi-artist compilations have been collected on his solo albums ATroubled Resting Place (1996) and Below Zero (1998). He also records with his group, Amba, exploring atmosphericsongcraft on their CD Watchful (1997) and the upcoming Pivot (2000). His new 3-CD live set Humidity (2000) documents theunique improvised flow of his recent performances.Rich has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and concert halls throughout Europe and North America. Hisall-night Sleep Concerts, first performed in 1982, became legendary in the San Francisco area. In 1996 he revived his all-nightconcert format, playing Sleep Concerts for live and radio audiences across the U.S. during a three month tour.Rich has designed sounds for television and film, including the Greame Revelle soundtrack for Pitch Black and others. He alsoworks closely with electronic instrument manufacturers, and his sound design has graced the preset libraries of Emu's Proteus 3and Morpheus, Seer Systems' Reality, sampling disks Things that Go Bump in the Night and ACID Loop Library LiquidPlanet. Rich has written software for composers who work in just intonation, and he helped develop the MIDI microtuningspecification, which was accepted as an industry standard. As a mastering engineer, he has applied his ear to numerous albums inthe last two years, and his studio was featured in the September '99 issue of Keyboard Magazine.

Music Style Ambient Electronic

Group Members Robert Rich - All instruments

Instruments Lap Steel, Synthesizers, Percussion and Flutes

Albums Goto this webpage to see extensive discography - http://www.amoeba.com/rrdisco.html

Press Reviews "Robert Rich's recordings are fast becoming recognized as pioneering works, having taken electronic music to previously unrealized levels of innovation."Darren Bergstein, I/E"A music-scape that oozes with primitive life, as if pulsing from the swamp itself. . . A time traveller searching for the aperture that looks back to Eden."Calvin Ahlgren, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE"Countless, beautiful, diverse, intense, evocative, innovative, lavish, awesome soundscapes."Jill Grant, INTERFACE MAGAZINE"Nothing, not one note, seems out of place or contrived. . .A bright and attractive fusion of the ancient and the modern, a bold groundbreaking musicalstatement."Ben Kettlewell, DREAMSWORD"Like listening to sonic architecture. . . Rich's structures are geometrical, yet organic."Linda Kohanov, PULSE!"This is surely the stuff that fantasies are made of..."P.J. Birosik, L.A. RESOURCES

Location Mountain View, CA - USA

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