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Robert Rich was born on 23 August, 1963 in California, United States, is an American ambient musician and composer. Discover Robert Rich's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?
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California, United States |
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United States
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Robert Rich Height, Weight & Measurements
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Robert Rich Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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It was recorded on a 1925 vintage A.B. Chase baby grand piano.
Robert Rich (born August 23, 1963) is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States.
With a discography spanning over 30 years, he has been called a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient music, New-age music, and even IDM.
During Rich's time at Stanford University in the 1980s, he became well known in the San Francisco Bay Area for giving live night-time performances for somnolent or sleeping audiences.
These were experiments to influence REM cycle sleep with auditory stimulus.
They were usually nine hours long and lasted from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. During these performances, he would generate abstract drones and atmospheres while the audience dozed in sleeping bags that they brought themselves.
In the morning he ended the concert with piano solos and served tea.
This album was a recreation of the sleep concert environment he created during the 1980s at Stanford.
Although not officially recognized, many people believe it to be the longest artist album of all time.
During this time, he released four albums on cassette: Sunyata (1982), Trances (1983), Drones (1983), and his first live album titled Live (1984).
The first of these was recorded when he was 18.
The music on these albums reflects similar drone music atmospheres to those of his sleep concert series.
Rich applied to study at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
He scheduled a meeting with John Chowning, the founder of the class and inventor of FM synthesis.
When Chowning saw Rich’s first three albums, Rich was approved for the class.
It performed several live concerts in the San Francisco Bay area.
The group dissolved after a live radio broadcast in 1984.
Some of the group's recorded material was released as a self-titled album in 1985.
In 1987, he released an album titled Numena.
This was the beginning of a new sound for Rich.
It was his first album to explore complex rhythmic patterns, a wider range of acoustic instrumentation, and just intonation.
It was also his first album to be released on CD originally.
In the years that followed he developed a complex range of sounds founded upon the seamless integration of electronic, electric, and acoustic instrumentation, and the exploration of complex just tunings.
His music continues to tend toward the organic and much of it is based on a concept in synthesis he refers to as glurp.
His interest in using unique sounds has inspired him to create a large collection of original field recordings and homemade instruments.
One of these instruments is a range of flutes made from PVC pipe.
His interest in unique sounds has also given him work as a sound designer for synthesizer presets and for E-mu Systems’ Proteus 3 and Morpheus sound modules.
He has also designed sounds for films including Pitch Black and Behind Enemy Lines, a series of sampling discs called Things that Go Bump in the Night, and a library of Acid Loops called Liquid Planet.
He has also helped develop the MIDI micro-tuning specification, which is the standard used to create justly tuned compositions in MIDI.
His collaborators over the years have included Steve Roach, Brian "Lustmord" Williams, Lisa Moskow, Alio Die, and Ian Boddy.
In 1992, he formed a new group called Amoeba.
In 2001, he released an album titled Somnium, a 7-hour album divided into three tracks on one DVD video.
In 2004, he released an album of piano solos titled Open Window.
This album documents his improvised piano style that has been part of his live concerts for decades.
On March 11, 2005, Rich suffered a hand injury while cleaning a glass jug, accidentally slipping and falling on top of it.
During the recovery process, he continued to record new material and tour.
He also constructed end-blown flutes from PVC pipe that are more easily played with limited right-hand dexterity.
During his 2006 tour, Rich performed in front of a film created by visual artist Daniel Colvin as a backdrop.
