Robert Rich

   
Artist: Robert Rich

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Electric Ladder

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 7


   
 Echo Of Small Things

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9


   
 Open Window

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Calling Down The Sky

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1


   
 Temple Of The Invisible

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 1


   
 Live at U of L School of Music-Kentucky-07-18

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2


   
 Dub Beautiful Collective

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 2


   
 Bestiary

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 The Gathering Live 04.08.2000

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Sunyata

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 2


   
 Somnium Dvd

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Shamballa Live, May 20, 2000

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7


   
 Inner Landscapes Live

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


   
 Seven Veils

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7


   
 Humidity CD3

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 6


   
 Humidity cd2

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 6


   
 Humidity cd1

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7


   
 Troubled Resting Place

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 6


   
 Yearning

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 6


   
 Trances/drones (Cd 2)

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 3


   
 Trances/drones (Cd 1)

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 3


   
 Propagation

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 7


   
 Night Sky Replies

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 1


   
 Geometry

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 8


   
 Numena

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 4


   
 Gaudi

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 9


   
 Strata

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


   
 Rainforest

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 9


   
 Inner Landscapes

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 8


   
 Trances

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 3


   
 Drones

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 3

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Although his music is much consigned to the new years bins of record stores and the majority of his mold has been released on labels more than intimately associated with that categorization, Robert Rich's solo and collaborative recordings own proven passing influential on a range of a function of new school ambient and experimental artists. Although hardly into his 30s, Rich's association with in the first place space-music pioneers such as Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny, and Michael Stearns too makes him one of the few of that generation to consume interfaced creatively with the unexampled waving of experimental electronic composers.


A California native, Rich began experimenting with electronics in the late '70s before attending Stanford University, where he completed a degree in psychological science. While at Stanford, Rich's interest in the university's prestigious Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics expanded his interest in electronic composition, as advantageously as delivery him in tangency with a blanket range of mountains of untraditional, non-Western musical ideas. Rich's carrying out of several nightlong "slumber concerts" during this period too helped solidify an aesthetical focus on psychoacoustics, perceptible in early recordings such as Geometry and Trances/Drones.


Rich's more mature works such as Rainforest and Propagation have sought to combine that pursuit with more recognizable electro-acoustical elements (Rich plays a full grasp of instruments, from synths and effects racks to hand drums and flute glass), but the influence of digital sound manipulation has likewise touched more and more to the bow. Inspired by the more textural industrial plant of artists like SPK and Throbbing Gristle, Rich's interest in the edgier side of electronic composition has besides earned him a reputation among fans of gothic, industrial, and glowering ambient, made to the highest degree obvious by his quislingism in 1995 with Brian Williams of Lustmord. In addition to his more ambient-leaning deeds, Rich too plays in the experimental pop band Amoeba. He is too a scholar of Just Intonation, writing regularly on the subject and co-authoring the software program course of study JICalc. He released Inner Landscapes in 1999, and Humidity: Three Concerts a year later.