richard chartier, sound/installation artist and graphic designer, has created critically acclaimed recordings for labels such as 12k/line (u.s.a.), trente oiseaux (germany), spekk (japan), mutek_rec (canada), dsp (italy), ers (the netherlands), and fallt (ireland), including collaborations with artists taylor deupree, william basinski, COH, and *0 and has appeared on numerous international compilations. his digital minimalist work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening.
chartier's sound works and sound installations have been presented internationally including the exhibitions sounding spaces at icc (tokyo, japan), i moderni / the moderns at castello di rivoli (torino, italy), 2002 biennale at the whitney museum of american art (new york), resynthesis at the art institute of chicago and with the travelling sound exhibit invisible cities created by digital media curators fehler as well as solo and collaborative installations for fusebox (dc), 1515 arts/g fine art (dc), die schachtel (milan, italy), and diapason (new york). he has performed his work live across europe, japan, and north america at mutek (montreal, canada), grm/maison de radio france (paris, france), observatori (valencia, spain), deaf (dublin, ireland), transmediale (berlin, germany), lovebytes (sheffield, u.k), the leeds international film festival (leeds, u.k.), the rotterdam international film festival (the netherlands), garage (stralsund, germany), la batie (geneva, switzerland), and other noted digital art/music festivals and at exhibits such as "frequenzen [Hz]" at the schirn kunsthalle (frankfurt) and "a minimal future? art as object 1958-1968" and "visual music: syneasthesia in art and music since 1900" at the museum of contemporary art (los angeles).
in 2000 he formed the recording label line and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists and composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism. the premiere release on line, chartier's series was awarded "honorable mention" in the category of digital music by the prestigious prix ars electronica, 2001 (austria). in 2006 he was commissioned by the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden to create the site-specific collaborative sound performance work "specification.fifteen" with taylor deupree for the hiroshi sugimoto exhibit.
