Richard Chartier

from the free Ambient Blog digital anniversary compilation. http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2015-10-21/anniversary-collection/ 

Reference Point #1 by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

from 'Talk the Pleasure Out of It"

'Talk The Pleasure Out Of It' is the new release from minimalist composer Richard Chartier’s Pinkcourtesyphone alias. Building on his previous records, the movements cut across this 10" blend live electronic and processed experiments resulting in a darker, more rhythmic voyage of texture and form. Stunning opener 'Stars Fell (Closet Mix)' sets the atmosphere with an enthralling low fidelity loop with emotive string swells and surging crackle. 'Every Last Lightbulb' is next up with oscillating loops and spiralling pulses, while 'Seemingly Endless Credits For Stars Fell' introduces driving rhythms around mesmeric synth clusters. 'A Message' brings the journey to an end in an introspective mood with thought provoking dialogue and flickering drone washes. 'Talk The Pleasure Out Of It' is a classic progression of ambient minimalism. Turn the lights out, lie down and immerse yourself. Stunning atmospherics.

available as a very limited edition lathe cut 10" vinyl record on CHAMPION VERSION, UK

Talk The Pleasure Out Of It

Stars Fell (Closet Mix) 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)

from: Indelicate Slices
Room40, Australia / CD + digital / November 2017
http://www.pinkcourtesyphone.com/indelicate-slices/

All is lost, all is lost. Or is it?

A poignant question from Pinkcourtesyphone. A haunting strain. A coat of gloss smeared.

A scene recalled, a fond memory, a terrible lie in this new dark age of love.

Suspended in that lush, lonely feeling, Pinkcourtesyphone implores you to hang breathless on the line, above the chandeliers in shimmering stasis that belie those desperate, shadowy passions underneath.

A creak, a glance. nothing is for certain anymore. that sentimental something echoed across corridors, valleys, crevices, and it was never true. that redundant physicality kept it suspended in the lens-trapped hearts of countless thousands.

A limited edition. seven excellent examples of negative mood music. Pinkcourtesyphone’s artistry is all lustrous sounds. new meaning and beauty for…oh, you don’t even want to know. The answer is buried under centuries of suffocatingly sweet tonalities we created. Just like romance, the mighty do fall with indelicate slices.

Is it dark outside already…?

Indelicate Slices

Date of Loss by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

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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)

The original version of 'Romantic Threat' from the album 2017 Pinkcourtesyphone album 'Indelicate Slices' (room40, Australia), plus two unreleased "B-sides" for your hazy listening. a surprise BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE! 

This original version was deemed 'too romantic and positive' for full inclusion on the album so it was reworked and edited down to 2:57 of Negative Mood Music from Los Angeles. Now with over 10 extra minutes of romance.

released June 18, 2018 

formed and recorded by Pinkcourtesyphone / Richard Chartier, mid 2017-2018. 

Richard Chartier is published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music Ltd

Romantic Threat EP

Romantic Threat (original & overextended)by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

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

‘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

This 45min archival oddity is a live recording of a private improvisation at the home of William Basinski & James Elaine in Venice, California (aka The Pink House) on a lovely summer’s day as afternoon turned to twilight, June 23, 2004. 

Some elements were later utilized and reformed for the 2013 collaborative work ‘Aurora Liminalis’ on Chartier’s label LINE.

Richard Chartier

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