We're thrilled to announce the second in our long-form ambient series which will span over a day and a night with music by a mighty legend in the field, Robert Rich.
Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States. With a discography spanning over 30 years and 40 albums, he's a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, new-age, and even IDM. For the day session, we will present selected works in sound sculpture installation form in 4DSOUND.
For our long-form live element, we will host a hybrid set by C O S M I C | C O M P O S I T I O N S label co-founders E.T.no.home and Cynthia / Aporia. They will be joined by Ross Alexander for a 7-hour live performance in 4DSOUND.
Continuing into the night, for a limited amount of lucid dreamers, our overnight concert will present a spatialised version of Robert Rich's 'Somnium' - at its time, one of the longest continuous musical composition ever released on any format, #Somnium represents an ambient music landmark.
In the 1990s, Robert Rich meticulously crafted a fresh studio interpretation of his notorious all-night Sleep Concerts, incorporating newly recorded electro-acoustic, electronic and environmental textures, with elements created for the original live events.
Somnium guides the listener through an ever-changing dreamscape, with levels of subtle detail that reward both active attention and background listening. Deep and sonorous, mysterious and diffuse, liquid and hypnogogic.
SCHEDULE & TICKETS
Daytime - Feb 22nd
14:00 - 22:00
Robert Rich (Sound Sculpture Installation)
Cosmic Compositions (Hybrid Set Live in 4DSOUND)
aka
Cynthia / Aporia
E.T.no.home
plus Special Guest
15€ - https://snip.ly/jkb0f
Overnight - Feb 22nd into Feb23rd
Doors 23:30
Concert 00:00 - 8:00
Robert Rich 'Somnium' (Sleep Concert in 4DSOUND)
35€ - https://snip.ly/5ug2au
Limited day time and overnight combo tickets - 45€
Includes mattress, pillow, blanket and breakfast.
Please note that the overnight performance is to be experienced in its entirety. Beds, blankets and pillows will be provided, but warm clothes and additional covers are recommended for comfort. Eye masks for complete darkness during the show are also suggested. Breakfast will be served in the morning.
Day + Overnight combo
Join us for both the day time and overnight session.
45€ - https://snip.ly/h16ywm
ROBERT RICH
Across four decades and over 50 albums, Robert Rich has helped define the genres of ambient music, dark-ambient, tribal and trance, yet his music remains hard to categorize. Part of his unique sound comes from using home-made acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal harmonies, computer-based signal processing, chaotic systems and feedback networks. Rich began building his own analog synthesizers in 1976, when he was 13 years old, and later studied for a year at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
Rich released his first album Sunyata in 1982. Most of his subsequent recordings came out in Europe until 1989, when Rich began a string of critically acclaimed releases for Fathom/Hearts of Space, including Rainforest (1989), Gaudí (1991), Propagation (1994) and Seven Veils (1998). His two collaborations with Steve Roach, Strata (1990) and Soma (1992), both charted for several months in Billboard. Other respected collaborations include Stalker (1995 with B. Lustmord), Fissures (1997 with Alio Die) and Outpost (2002 with Ian Boddy.) Rich’s contributions to multi-artist compilations have been collected on his solo albums A Troubled Resting Place (1996) and Below Zero (1998). His group, Amoeba, explored atmospheric songcraft on their CDs Watchful (1997) and Pivot (2000). Live albums such as Calling Down the Sky (2004) and 3-CD Humidity (2000) document the unique improvised flow of his performances.
Rich has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and concert halls throughout Europe and North America. His all-night Sleep Concerts, first performed in 1982, became legendary in the San Francisco area. In 1996 he revived his all-night concert format, playing Sleep Concerts for live and radio audiences across the U.S. during a three month tour. In 2001 Rich released the 7 hour DVD Somnium, a studio distillation of the Sleep Concert experience, followed in 2014 by his 15 hour Blu-ray release Perpetual. Rich returned to playing Sleep Concerts once again after 2013 for special performances in Krakow, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Gdansk, USA’s Noise Pop and Moogfest, and elsewhere. His more active music takes him to international festivals such as Boom (Portugal), Klusa Daba (Latvia), Rainbow Serpent and Earth Frequency (Australia), Monsoon (Vietnam), Electric Forest and Earth Dance (USA).
Rich has designed sounds for television and film scores, including the films Pitch Black, Crazy Beautiful, Behind Enemy Lines, Dead Girl and others. His musical scores grace films by Roberto Miller (Mandorla, 2015) Yahia Mahamdi (Thank you for your Patience, 2003) and Daniel Colvin (Atlas Dei, 2007, with 90 minutes of Rich’s music in surround); and a video installation by Michael Somoroff (Illumination, 2007). Rich works closely with electronic instrument manufacturers, and his sound design has filled preset libraries of Emu’s Proteus 3 and Morpheus, Seer Systems’ Reality, sampling disks Things that Go Bump in the Night, ACID Loop Library Liquid Planet, WayOutWare’s TimewARP2600, and Camel Alchemy. His oscillator wavetables and presets are a part of the DSI-Sequential Prophet 12, Pro 2, Tempest, Prophet 6, Prophet X, Pro 3, and Synthesis Technology modules. Rich has written software for composers who work in just intonation, and he helped develop the MIDI microtuning specification. As mastering engineer and mixer, he has applied his ear to hundreds of albums in all styles. He has been featured in Keyboard Magazine, Electronic Musician, Guitar Player, Innerviews and elsewhere worldwide.
ET.NO.HOME
E.T.no.home aka Addison Chase is a DJ, artist & environmentalist hailing from Aotearoa [New Zealand] & now based in Berlin. He is the founder and owner of the record label Cosmic Compositions and since its inception in 2012 has helped mold the label into a diverse and eclectic sound palette comprising of everything to new age ambient to jazz to jungle. With his diverse taste and knowledge in the weirder & wonderful realms of music his selections/compositions are sure to delight the listener and transport them away to his cosmic universe.
CYNTHIA / APORIA
Mitchell James O’Sullivan is an artist and musician originating from Aotearoa, New Zealand & now based in Berlin. He is the co-owner of the record labels Cosmic Compositions & Fantasy Fiction Records and is currently collaborating on an album of material with a machine learning, emotional sensitive data avatar called Cynthia. Passed projects include Aporia, Futon and recently, an album in collaboration with Ross Alexander, 17 Vignettes.
SOUNCLOUD
BANDCAMP
ROSS ALEXANDER
An Illusive and tireless operator in the world of underground electronic music, Ross Alexander stands as an artist whose work remains as fiercely committed to experimentation and diversity of output as when he began putting ideas into practice almost two decades ago.
A fervent opposer of the concept of ‚careerism‘ Ross is equally as likely to be found on field recording expeditions to far corners of the planet as he would be standing in the booth hammering out a hypertime dancefloor set or creating deep-jams with a freeform digi-jazz band. The only theme is a chaos pattern of deep experimentalism and hardline rejection of the limelight.
His work over time has brought releases on labels as incongruously varied as Deeply Rooted House and Discrepant Records, and still his divergent and at times untraceable output continues to surface at the most obscure of sources.
Ross’ latest release ‚Memorias vol.2 - High Atlas To The Sahara Desert‘, an abstract, soundscaped-travelogue based on recordings made during a trip to visit a nomadic gathering at the Moroccan/Algerian border, provides an immersive insight into some of his influences, as does his recent show on Berlin’s Cashmere radio ‘Bread.6K’ a labyrinthine world of ultra-abstract sonics and sounds from the further realms of contemporary musical experimentation.
