from the album 'Interreferences' on Room40 (Australia)

formed & recorded 2018-2020 by Richard Chartier 
mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space 

cover: Untitled, 2018 by Linn Meyers (courtesy of the artist) based on a lithograph printed & published by the Tamarind Institute, NM 
design by Richard Chartier

Interreferences

Interreference.4

from a companion EP to full length album 'Interreferences' released March 29, 2021 by Room40 (Australia)available for download/purchase exclusively on Bandcamp


released May 7, 2021 

formed & recorded 2019-2020 by Richard Chartier 
mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space 

cover: excerpt from Untitled, 2018 by Linn Meyers (courtesy of the artist) based on a lithograph printed & published by the Tamarind Institute, NM 
design by Richard Chartier 

thank you to L.English, L.Meyers 
headphone listening suggested 

published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd 
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Interreferences II

Interreference.2

On Room40, Australia (RM4188) 
CD / matte varnish + embossed sleeve with 8 page insert
out May 27, 2022

A decade has passed since Pinkcourtesyphone's unexpected debut album 'Foley Folly Folio' (LINE)... time does fly in face of expectations, since expectations are just future resentments. 'All Intensive Purposes' is a lush compliment to Pinkcourtesyphone's previous outing for Room40 'Leaving Everything To Be Desired' 

Immured within the deep deep pink velvet lining of their sonic smudge satchel ooze forth the obsessions and peculiar delicacies that have captivated both Pinkcourtesyphone and audiences alike. Moody glowering, ghostly utterances re-situated, hissy, distant and sad, all the while light and tender. It is that Sound that is at the fluffy heart of a long string of successful though surprisingly varied albums. A new sparkling jewel that already gathers cloudiness in its facets. This album can be best characterized by one word — charm, well, maybe two words — questionable charm. 

"I could listen to it for hours" — a possible proclamation for these inconsistent consistencies. 

Theoretical A and B sides makes one long for the warmth of antiquated plastic possibilities, if only for a moment to distill the gnawing hungry need for consumption within. Seven "songs" lilt and wallow, indefinable, intangible, yet always... there. 

This is "catastrophe muzak", the sound of sympathy amplified, leaving the room. 

Here is a collection of moods which we anticipate and enjoy with no misgivings. A long trail of evening debris awaits your ears' pleasure. Let it procure that pleasure for you, let it devour you. 

I can’t imagine... you will.

All Intensive Purposes

drained by the very nearness

The acoustic architecture of Robert Curgenven and Richard Chartier forms a delineation of space built through dismantling the constitution of internal and external. Beyond dividing space, creating a façade or habitable zone, the perceptibility of the surface is turned back in on itself and with it a shift in the ideological and social context of the space. A seamless integration of digital and analogue, a suffusion which creates a mutual modulation, transforming purpose chosen materials—dense, undulating foundations through to stratified filaments and needle-point framework—defining the approach, the entry, the walk-through, the departure.

TRACKS:
1 invariance strata (13:44)
2 displacement (09:22)
3 built through both sides (25:33)
4  acquisition eviction (07:12)


2: Field recording by Curgenven from Urunga, Australia, March 2010. Digitally reprocessed/reworked by Chartier. Further processing by Curgenven through an improvisation for binaural microphones,  wine glasses, two turntables and linear series dubplate, recorded in London, October 2010.


FULL INFO + REVIEWS: http://www.lineimprint.com/editions/cd/line_056/

Displacement by Richard Chartier and Robert Curgenven

shouting at nuance

Shouting at Nuance

problematic interior 3

unreleased extended mix of "Falling Star (for P. Entwistle)

original version on "A Ravishment of Mirror" CD

Falling Star (Suspension Mix)by Pinkcourtesyphone

Desensualized

desensualized

no one wants to admit that i am afraid (for W.B.) (emotionally overextended version)

stase hivernale

on a continuous form

on a continuous form 1

on a continuous form 4

on a continuous form 2

on a continuous form 3

Specification.Twelve

from "Elegant & Detached" on Room40, Australia. 2012

Sans Many Things (Bedtime)by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

new single from the upcoming Pinkcourtesyphone album 'Arise in Sinking Feelings' (out on Room40, Australia on April 12, 2024)

first new pinkcourtesyphone material in 2 years.

https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/arise-in-sinking-feelings

Arise in Sinking Feelings

Pinkcourtesyphone 'pre-sumptuous / post-sumptuous'

Divertissement is the third collaborative full length from minimalist composer William Basinski and sound artist Richard Chartier.

The duo utilize electronics, piano, tape-loops and short wave radio to evoke a dense atmosphere suggesting hundreds of years of history rising up from the depths of a reverberating cathedral. Subtle, buried and intense murmurs of melody morph through this deeply consuming and slowly evolving composition in two parts.

Pressed in an edition of 500 with beautiful cover drawings by artist James Elaine. 

on IMPORTANT Records (USA) 2015

Divertissement

Divertissement part 1 (excerpt) by William Basinski + Richard Chartier

Taken from the album 'taking into account only a portion of your emotions' released as CD and Download

Released by:
Editions Mego
EMEGO236

Release date:
24 November 2016

taking into account only a portion of your emotions

Taking Into Account Only a Portion of Your Emotions

High End Smalls by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

from the upcoming album 'Removed' on Ash International, UK on May 19, 2017.


In 2000, The Wire wrote of Chartier’s work: “it’s worth stretching the ears in search of Chartier’s sequences of exquisitely sculpted sonic events, as gorgeous detail bodies forth out of the shadows”… the same holds true today.

Formed over the course of 5 years, Removed was a process of removal/erasure.
Only trace elements appear from what was. Their interactions merely a ghost of a composition — subtle echoes across the sound spectrum. A glacially paced progression of discreet relational sonic events and flows.

Inspired in part by the rigorous line drawings of American visual artist Linn Meyers, whose 2011 untitled drawing graces the cover, Removed draws the listener in to follow patterns. Meyers often creates large scale on-site works that transform a space into durational installations of seemingly endless lines. Seen from a distance these lines appear as almost natural ripples in a wall surface, but deeper, upon closer inspection, the delicate echoes and fluctuations of the artist’s hand arise from the density of details.

Chartier’s precise sound compositions work in a similar manner. Austere and shimmering, the two compositions of Removed beg for careful listening on headphones. Or let these 2 compositions play quietly amplified across your space. Either way, a physically captivating dimensional experience.

Removed is a continuing reflection on major aesthetic elements of Chartier’s artistic language as it has evolved through the years. This is Chartier’s first new solo studio album since 2013’s field recording exploration Interior Field  and 2012’s purely digital Recurrence, both released on LINE, US.

Removed 1 (excerpt)

(Untitled)

(Untitled) I

(Untitled) II

LINE_095 

I think about the work of Mika Vainio almost every day since his sudden and untimely passing on April 12, 2017. 

His work as one half of Pan Sonic and his solo work under his own name and as Ø and Philus were and are incredibly influential to me. It was partly one of the reasons I began working with sound again in 1997 after stopping for almost 4 years, central to the evolution of my own listening. 

His sounds and arrangements were always elusive, otherworldly, unreal, strange, unsettling, often abrasive, and at the same time expressed a sheer unrelenting beauty. They seem to represent a push and pull between states, warmth and cold, silence and fury, future and past, life and death. 

I was fortunate enough to perform with and for him (in the audience) and despite his being a man of very select words, to share conversations with him. The prospect of a new release by Mika always thrilled me. I am still saddened to think that there will not be more of his work to be heard each year. 

These two pieces pay homage to Mika and the subtle and unquiet gifts he gave all listeners.
credits
releases April 20, 2018 

1. Central (for M.Vainio) 44:40 
2. Unquiet (for M.Vainio) 07:10 

formed and recorded April 2017-March 2018. 
track 2 intended to be played as loud as possible.

Centra (for M.Vainio)

Unquiet (for M.Vainio)

from DUO
by France Jobin + Richard Chartier
on mAtter, Japan
release date: Dec 16, 2018

DUO is the first collaborative project from minimal composer France Jobin and Richard Chartier.

DUO creates an “intemporelle“ and pervading atmosphere, where sounds intermingle within an intricate and delicate system delineated by spatial and temporal boundaries.

composed by  France Jobin and Richard Chartier.
mastered by Stephen Mathieu 
thank you to Yukitomo Hamasaki and Shuhei Miyagi
design by Richard Chartier

https://www.matter.jp/work/#/duo-france-jobin-richard-chartier/

DUO 1

LINE_SEG06

Sonic smudger Pinkcourtesyphone and harpist extraordinaire Gwyneth Wentink first met at an elegant garden party chez William Basinski, where they became instant accomplices. 2016's 'Elision' EP (901editions, Italy) soon followed, full of rich chords, lush hues, and enticing flickerings.
 
Now the pair invites you to get carried away in a cascade of murmurs with ‘when she had no mirror…she watched her shadow.’
 
... a powerful conception that plumbs the very depths of human emotion. Here is a picture of a woman's passion painted with strokes of shocking brilliance... vital music written and performed with bold imagination... daringly executed for the who can sustain the most stimulating of listening sensations.

when she had no mirror​.​.​. she watched her shadow

when she had no mirror... she watched her shadow (excerpt)

 Richard Chartier & CoH’s as NICE BOX
cover of Soft Cell’s “Bleak is My Favourite Cliché”

Recovery
Various Artists
Fractured Recordings [UK] 
10 x 7″ vinyl box set / numbered edition of 500
2008

What happens when you ask 20 electronic artists, each renowned for their own inimitable style, to cover a song from the past that holds particular significance to them? Recovery is a series of cover versions, tributes and appropriations of classic hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s from the following artists:Richard Chartier and coH, Fennesz, Jason Forrest, Robert Henke, Jenny Hoyston’s Paradise Island, Ryoji Ikeda, Johann Johannsson, Robert Lippok featuring Caroline Thorpe, Momus with Germlin, Matmos, Barbara Morgenstern, BJNilsen, Alva Noto, People Like Us with Ergo Phizmiz, snd, Susan Stenger, J.G.Thirlwell, Carter Tutti, Mika Vainio, :Zoviet*France:

www.fracturedrecordings.com/recovery

CoH + Richard Chartier as NICE BOX covering Soft Cell's "Bleak Is My Favourite Cliché"

‘Harbor Darkness (for C&C)’ is dedicated to the delightful and inspiring Cosey Fanni Tutti & Chris Carter for their friendship and fearlessness. It arose from the “sessions” for the upcoming 2020 full length Pinkcourtesyphone album ‘Leaving Everything To Be Desired’ 

exclusively available for digital down load via bandcamp:
https://richardchartier.bandcamp.com/album/harbor-darkness

Harbor Darkness

Harbor Darkness (for C&C) by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

no one wants to admit that i am afraid (for W.B.) [emotionally overextended version] 
Pinkcourtesyphone

there comes a time on any dance floor when the lights go low, the music turns pretty, and everyone gets that cheek-to-cheek look in their eyes. 

this deflated valentine from Pinkcourtesyphone is not for that time. 
is your heart awake... yet? 


originally created during the "sessions" for the album September 2020 Pinkcourtesyphone 'Leaving Everything To Be Desired' (room40, Australia) [https://richardchartier.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-everything-to-be-desired] 

... further manipulations, pokings, and frostings continued through January 2021.
released February 5, 2021 as a bandcamp exclusive download

photography: James Elaine 
thank you: L.English, W.Basinski, J.Elaine, M.Harding 

published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd 
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no one wants to admit that i am afraid [emotionally overextended version] by Pinkcourtesyphone

Richard Chartier (b.1971) is a Los Angeles based artist, considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’'s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.

He is also Pinkcourtesyphone.

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