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Hi, my name is
Rich.
I have been writing electronic music
compositions for so long I'd rather not tell. Before that, I was
known primarily as a guitar player. I started picking at the age of 12,
and always had a fascination with tape recorders and getting them to do
sound on sound by splicing wires, rigging up microphones and speakers,
and recording layers of tracks using two $20 buck recorders.
During my last year of High School, I
joined a band named the Factory on the south side of Chicago, near the
industrial district where I grew up. We did mainly Doors and Tull and
Zepplin. I played lead guitar. The band, by the way, still performs
regularly in the pubs of Chicago, with many of the original members.
I went to college at SIU-Carbondale.
Yes, the party capital of the mid-west. In addition to picking up a few
degrees in Sociology (where I learned to enjoy intellectual pursuits) ,
I met some truly creative folks there in the large hippie-type
households I was a part of. My housemates and I often played guitar and
sang till the sunrise on top of the roof of our turn of the century 2
story run down Victorian "farmhouse". These times remind me how many
incredible ideas were generated just in "play". At times it seemed
to all of us that there was something strange about the music we made up
there. Was it us? Or was it the moon?
Eerie forbidden chordings.
Perhaps the beginning of my interest in sound development.
It was always a dream to be able to
record all the parts to a song, add strings, horns, whatever a song
needed. Hence, I was a sucker for MIDI when it arrived. I anxiously
saved and scrimped every dime from my day job and took a second job,
even sacrificed driving a car for many years just so I could buy MIDI
stuff. The dream slowly became reality. Now, there is incredible freedom
to make whatever kind of music I want.
As a result, I have over a decade and a
half of material to share, all original tunes, that can be obtained by
ordering my cds at MP3.com. What you see at mp3.com is the tip of the
iceberg. There's way over 1300 songs in my catalog. Of
course they aren't all great. :)
Its difficult to categorize my stuff
into a "type" of music. Each song has a "voice" and I work on them by
cultivating that voice. Most people who hear it and like it describe it
as somewhere where New Age, Pop, World, Trance and Dance Music cross
over. Its quite technically accomplished, if I say so myself, with
changing meter, transposition, often strange arrangements, and unusual
sounds. I have a strong philosophical background, and it reflects itself
in the music. Yet, as i get older, I am able to do many different forms
and do them well.
I have also worked with a few vocalists
over the years. The first was
Ana O'Barr. We created about 40 songs together before her
untimely death. Right now I am working with a great singers/speakers
named
Winnie and Juli. Using poetry as lyrics, and richly textured midi
instruments as a background, I think we have found our way into some
dramatic musical forms you just can't find anywhere.
for a better pic of Rich click the pic
or
here
Check out my
Midifiles
Currently, I am on a mission to redefine
Dance Club Music.
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Listen to some of my
compositions.
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