I found this track on a drive while looking for something else. It's from 2005, and that's all I know about it - I can't remember when or how I did it. But I like it, so I thought I'd share it here.

Wavelength

The complete direct recording of my solo live performance at Analog Synth Showdown at The Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY, February 18, 2011. Here, I perform with my Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer controlled with the Haken Continuum multidimensional keyboard. 

Because there was no formal announcement of the beginning of my performance, I started sparsely and quietly, so that the audience only gradually became aware that I was playing. This is the latest in a series of recent free improvisations in which my goal is to perform as freely and expressively with timbre as with pitch and duration.

Richard Lainhart @ The Silent Barn 2-18-11

Richard Lainhart's live performance on WDIY Radio March 17, 2011, performed and recorded in realtime without overdubs or edits. For Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer controller with a Haken Continuum multidimensional keyboard.

Richard Lainhart Live @ WDIY 3-17-11

Richard Lainhart's realtime Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum performance on electro-music.com's New Year's Eve 2010 live streaming concert featuring 24 hours of live electro-music - 30 acts, 3 continents, 8 countries.

Richard Lainhart Electro-Music NYE 2009

sounds of my world -  Church Bells in Bologna 1-24 10:18 AM

A live recording from Issue Project Room in performance on January 10, 2010. I showed two films, "drift" and "LUX", and played realtime soundtracks for them on my Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum system. The evening included performances by Cammissa Forrest, Michael Waller, Noveller (Sarah Lipstate), and Kyle Bobby Dunn. The concert was curated by Kyle Dunn.

Richard Lainhart @ Issue Project Room 1/14/10

Richard played a sweet improvisation on a stone marimba on the upstairs deck of our house early one autumn morning in 2004. The blue jays provide the descant. (Photo: Richard Lainhart)

October - Stone Marimba

Caroline - for my sweetheart 2002

Direct board recording of my complete first set at One Thousand Pulses, March 6, 2010 - a realtime performance with Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer and Haken Continuum.



Richard Lainhart @ One Thousand Pulses 3-6-10 Set 1

The audio track from my complete live ImprovFriday (http://improvfriday.ning.com) set from March 26, 2010, available as a high-datarate downloadable stereo MP3. The music is structured improvisations for Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum, processed with a Boss RE-20 Space Echo pedal and a Lexicon MX400XL surround digital reverb processor.

Richard Lainhart ImprovFriday Live 3-26-10

sounds of my world -  Ne(x)tworks Performing Feldman Quartet 2 at Issue Project Room 4-11 11:44 AM

From 2010. Stark, glistening sound with a haunting, shifting line that distills the darkness of deep December's cold. 

December

A realtime recording of my live online performance for ImprovFriday (http://improvfriday.ning.com) from Friday evening, May 7, 2010. The performance consists of four pieces: "A Cloudless Sky", "Emerging", and "Horizon", for electric guitar with laptop processing, and "Cranes Fly West", for lapsteel guitar with Kyma processing.

Richard Lainhart ImprovFriday 5-7-10

In memory of Don Buchla from Richard Lainhart's 2006 album The Beautiful Blue Sky.

Richard Lainhart - The Beautiful Blue Sky - 06 - The Beautiful Blue Sky - Sample

A breath of sound from a dark, mysterious place.

A Silent Breath

One of the 100 compositions and sounds from a project called “100 x John, A Global Salute to John Cage,” featuring field recordings by composers and sound artists around the world. Richard's electronically processed city sounds, ambient noise of streets, traffic, subways, department stores, called “Manhattan Sounds,” is dreamlike — the city as a siren call.

Lainhart - 100 X John 2

Nocturne 0 is one of “Five Nocturnes” — a collection of One Sound works for electric guitar and computer processing, composed between 1998 and 2000. Each piece was recorded in realtime without overdubs or edits. “Five Nocturnes” consists of five linked pieces in which Richard uses long delays and other processing plugins, volume pedals, and eBows to extend the guitar’s tones into infinity while gradually building up massed tonalities that slowly change over time.

Five Nocturnes

Nocturne 0 (050998)

A direct high datarate MP3 recording of my complete solo performance at Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst 2010. Recorded 1 AM July 3, 2010.

I showed four films - drift, Dreamwood, The Line of Division, and LUX - and performed realtime soundtracks for them with my Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum system.

Richard Lainhart Live @ Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst 2010

The Spectral Song

An example of extreme time-stretching using the soon-to-be-ubiquitous PaulStretch. This track started out as a 23-second vibes and marimba intro theme for a video training series on Adobe Dreamweaver (hence the name); it's been stretched 25 times (2500%) using some tweaked settings in PaulStretch for OS X.

Dream Woven

My solo set at electro-music 2010, Huguenot, NY, September 12, 2010. This track is completely improvised in realtime without backing tracks or edits, and is for Buchla 200e controlled by a Haken Continuum multi-dimensional keyboard. All the sounds heard here are from the Buchla, with the exception of the flute-like sound at the end, which is one of the Continuum's physical modeling instruments called Slide Wind. The ghost echo behind the Slide Wind sound is from the 200e.

Richard Lainhart Solo @ electro-music 2010

A recording of two great horned owls in my backyard in the pre-dawn hours of Thanksgiving Day, 2010. There was a third one, far off in the woods, that unfortunately can't be heard in this recording. Note that the two owls get closer together by the end of the recording.... The rustling you hear at the beginning of the recording is a deer walking in the woods through the fallen leaves.

Sounds of my world - Great Horned Owls In Conversation 11-25-10 5-30 AM

From the Sounds Of My World series of field recordings - a blackbird migration passes through while crows mob a hawk.

sounds of my world - thousands of blackbirds, a few crows, and a hawk  11-5 9:24 AM

Richard plays shakuhachi along outdoors in this wistful track from 2000 just after moving from New York City to a country house.

Backyard Flute 1

Exquisite meditation on longing by Richard Lainhart (1953-2011). From 2009.

Autumn Afternoon With Rain

In his honor: Thousands of cicadas in concert. Richard would have reveled in this sonic experience and made a much better recording than I have. -- Caroline Meyers, Richard's wife.

Sounds of his World - Cicadas 6-9-13

Richard Lainhart passed away on December 30th, 2011. This page will act as a memorial page commemorating his work.
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Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker - a digital artisan who works with sonic and visual data. Since childhood, he's been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds and images that are as beautiful as he can make them. 

Lainhart studied composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany. He has composed music for film, television, CD-ROMs, interactive applications, and the Web. His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Japan. Recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records, Airglow Music, Tobira Records, and ExOvo labels. As an active performer, Lainhart has appeared in public approximately 2000 times. Besides performing his own work, he has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. He has composed over 100 electronic and acoustic works. In 2008, he was commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation to contribute a work to New York Soundscape.

Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown at festivals in the US, the UK, Canada, Germany, and Korea, and online at ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. His film "A Haiku Setting" won awards in several categories at the 2002 International Festival of Cinema and Technology in Toronto. In 2009, he was 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.

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"Lainhart crafts sounds in a tonal, musical fashion - sustained tones, drones, melodic fragments - and electronically manipulates them into beautiful tapestries of sound." (Waterfront Week) 

[His] "music reflects the spirit of possibility that once defined electronic music, bringing with it a sense of past, present and future that transcends time, technology and cultural assumptions. The spell- binding music seemed to evoke feelings that can't quite be named, and suggest music I might rather imagine for myself in silence than trust most composers to compose." (The Village Voice).

"He's evolved a singular vision as a composer, performer and engineer of darkly seductive minimalism." (Peter Marsh, BBC)

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