NEWS
>> 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 will be premiered at Re:Soundings in Valley Falls, NY in June 2009.
 
>> On October 16 at 8 p.m., Richard will perform his Electronic Music Foundation-commissioned work "Threshold", for Kyma and electric guitar at Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY as part of NEW YORK SOUNDSCAPE, a panoramic portrayal of New York City's personality and urban ecology in sound, including documentary field recordings, sound art compositions, and multimedia.
 
>> Richard's year-long timelapse film "One Year" has been accepted for exhibition at the Fifth Annual DIGiT Digital Media Exposition in Narrowsburg, NY, June 13-15, 2008.
 
>> 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

ABOUT RICHARD LAINHART
Richard Lainhart (rlainhart@otownmedia.com) is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker. He studied composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany, and has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Australia, and Japan. He's also played vibes in a swing band; composed music for film, television, CD-ROMs, interactive applications, and the Web; released recordings of his own music on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, and XI Records labels; engineered audio for recordings and live sound; and served as technical director at Intelligent Music, a pioneering music software company. He has performed in public approximately 2000 times.

He's also authored technical manuals for music and video hardware and software, served as Contributing Editor for Interactivity and 3D Magazines, and contributed to books on digital media production published by IDG, Peachpit Press, McGraw Hill, and Miller Freeman Books.

His animations and films have been shown in the US, Canada, Germany, and Korea, and online at ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0, and have won awards in several categories at the 2002 International Festival of Cinema and Technology in Toronto.

He is currently Technical Director for Total Training, an innovative digital media training company based in New York, an Adobe Certified Expert in After Effects and Premiere, an occasional demo artist for Adobe Systems, and co-founder of the official New York City After Effects User Group.