A recording of my performance at Deer Pile in Denver, CO on October 4th, 2013 as part of Plastic Sound Supply's release party for the 'Ultrasoft!' compilation. Audio was captured direct from the board with a Zoom H4n, with editing only being done for equalization and volume.

10.04.2013: Live at Deer Pile

Recorded July 29, 2011. Wind chimes, guitar, electronics and tape.

"Good Evening, Ghosts" has now been officially released - along with several remixes - via Futuresequence and is available for purchase directly from the label's online shop: http://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/good-evening-ghosts-ep.

Good Evening, Ghosts

A quick capture of a patch I am developing for my evolving Eurorack system, which hones in on the darker tonalities of the Mutable Instruments Elements and Clouds modules.

Recorded at home in the early hours of the morning.

08.21.2015: Arise, Michael

Last week, I dusted off an old four-track tape machine that had been given to me by a friend. After reacquainting myself with the unit's basic controls - and battling some rather finicky output jacks - I managed to lay down some noise during a late night session. This is the first of what I hope to be many more tape-based recordings made over the next few months. Recorded with guitar, pedals and laptop.

04.07.2012:  Tape Drift Session

A live recording of my performance at Crane Old School in Philadelphia, PA. As part of the new event series from Inciting dubbed "The Monochrome Sequence," I shared a bill with Hero/Victim, Metasplice and Demdike Stare. Recorded using guitar, mini-cassette and pedals, the file was imported to Ableton for minor EQ adjustments and editing for length.

Photo by Dan Lisowski.

04.21.2012: Live at Crane Old School

A recording of my performance at the summer 2018 Great Circles Grit Massive, featuring sampler, live synthesis, no-input mixing desk, and vocal processing. It feels good to be home.

07.07.2018: Live at Inciting HQ [GRCR Grit]

Recorded for inclusion on the recently released companion compilation for this year's Goldrush Music Festival, "Exultation (Loop)" was built around a processed mini-cassette recording of a church choir rehearsal.

My friend and collaborator Sun Hammer recently produced a remix of this track, which can be heard on <a href="http://soundcloud.com/sunhammer/radere-exultation-sun-hammer?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=http://soundcloud.com/sunhammer/radere-exultation-sun-hammer">his SoundCloud profile</a>.

Exultation (Loop)

Preview track taken from my upcoming release for Full Spectrum / Editions Littlefield, 'The Blood.'

From the label's one-sheet:

Full Spectrum mainstay Radere is back with a new collection of pieces culled from stripped down improvisations, which he captured during the winter of 2017-2018. The titular Blood is that of family; having recorded the bulk of this material at his parent’s home outside of Philadelphia, Ritger edited the session recordings in hotels and spare rooms as he relocated back to the east coast from Denver, Colorado.

'The Blood' finds Radere working in an unusually lean and utilitarian mode. Having left the bulk of his studio in storage, he traveled with only a small modular synthesizer and handheld digital recorder. This minimalist approach, however, led to uniquely direct approach to the instrument. Ritger often found himself working from single use patches – building up a soundworld and abandoning it once it was time to pack up shop and move to another locale. The wide-ranging sonic qualities across the album speak to the efficacy of this approach.

The work within is gestural, the compositions tighter than the sprawling slow burns found in the rest of the Radere catalog. It’s as if the waterlogged swamp dirge of 2016’s 'Sloth Period' has fully emerged from the depths and now glows exposed to air, defiantly challenging the listener to meet it on its own terms.

The Blood

Last Of The Good Sins

A live recording of Radere’s appearance at the 2019 Chillits Festival, an annual experimental music event that takes place in Laytonville, California.

Prepared on the road as the artist traveled along the Pacific coast with his partner in the days leading up to the festival, this performance marked a major departure from Radere’s recent synth-focused works. Instead, he returned to his original instrument – the guitar – to create sweeping drones, accompanied by tape loops, dynamic no-input mixer feedback and various electronics.

Available as part of the 'Alive In California, 2019' release, click the 'Buy' button to purchase.

Recorded by Aaron Ballard

Mastered by Andrew Weathers

Gratitude & respect to Ahsan Ali, Menyui Leung + the entire Chillits 2019 team

Alive In California, 2019

Alive in California, 2019

September 14, Laytonville

'Holographic Warmth' took shape as an informal studio mixtape, compiling a handful of orphaned sonic experiments and extended guitar drones that sprouted up in the restless moments between more formal projects [c. December 2018 - March 2019].

My intention was always to return to this material at a later date, with an aim to somehow "finish" it. Unfortunately, my focus was ultimately drawn to more pressing considerations and these files were left to languish on a neglected hard drive for many months.

More than a year after the initial sessions that yielded these recordings, I was invited to prepare a block of original material for inclusion in a 9128.live / A Strangely Isolated Place event curated by Mysteries of the Deep. I took this as an opportunity to let some fresh air into my moldering archives and stitched together 'Holographic Warmth' in a feverish rush. 

In an effort to maintain the raw, exploratory character of the source material, very little editing was performed and I took a light hand with eq and gain adjustments. Andrew Weathers – my longtime collaborator and friend – was also gracious enough to master the final mix-down and smooth out some of its rougher edges. 

Thank you to Grant Aaron and Ryan Griffin for facilitating the release of this material.

An "official" version of this release can be purchased at full resolution quality via my Bandcamp shop.

Enjoy.

Holographic Warmth: Studio Mixtape for Mysteries of the Deep 9128.live Takeover

Full resolution audio recording of my April 2020 performance on the Decentralized Sonic Quarantine Network, featuring guitar, tape loops, and no-input mixing desk.

Be safe. Stay healthy. Look after one another.

04.10.2020: Live on the Decentralized Sonic Quarantine Network

Taken from my recently released album, 'Dzud.'

Recorded at home, Spring 2020.

Dzud

That Which Is Not The Desert No Longer Exists

A live document of my performance at The Burlington in Chicago, IL earlier this year, where I shared a bill with Scott Cortez and Zelienople. Recorded using guitar, mini-cassette, laptop and electronics, this performance was captured direct from the board and only edited for length and volume.

Thanks to <a href="http://www.bigmodularsynth.com/">Caleb Condit</a> for the photo.

03.23.2013: Live at The Burlington

Carl Ritger [FKA Radere; b. 1984] is a composer, field recordist, & instrumentalist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently living and working on Colorado’s Front Range, his work composites entropic sonic environments from acoustic sound sources & electronics.

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