The Soundscapes Concert Series Presents RICHARD LAINHART

[Bill Fox]

Friday, May 21, Soundscapes returns to the *Nazareth Center for the 
Arts* with award winning musician *Richard Lainhart*. Doors open at 7:30 
pm and the concert is at 8:00 pm. There is a suggested donation of $10 
to support the musician and to enable the Nazareth Center for the Arts 
to pay operating expenses. The NCA is located at 30 Belvidere Street, 
Nazareth, PA 18064 just off of Route 191 on the southwest corner of 
Belvidere Street and South Spruce Street. Check the NCA site for parking 
information.

The Soundscapes Concert Series is the concert companion to the Galactic 
Travels radio program on WDIY and presents electronic music to the 
Lehigh Valley.  This is the concert series that presented Robert Rich 
(California), vidnaObmana (Belgium), The Ministry of Inside Things 
(Philadelphia), and Orbital Decay (Quakertown), Technicolor Travel 
Agency (Poconos), and Twyndyllyngs (Lehigh Valley) to local audiences.

Best regards,

Bill Fox - Soundscapes Artistic Director

Here is a collection of links that may be used in promoting this 
concert.  Photos, banners, a flier, and map links are included.

SOUNDSCAPES:
http://soundscapes.us
http://facebook.com/soundscapesconcerts
http://myspace.com/soundscapesconcertseries
Banner: http://soundscapes.us/banner.jpg
Flier: http://soundscapes.us/flier.pdf

FACEBOOK EVENT LISTING:
http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=108940659147059
or
http://is.gd/bJImb

MYSPACE EVENT LISTING:
http://events.myspace.com/External/Share/Event/View/3075938
or
http://tinyurl.com/244eull
or
http://is.gd/bJIPk

NAZARETH CENTER FOR THE ARTS:
http://nazaretharts.com
http://facebook.com/nazaretharts
Banner: http://soundscapes.us/images/NCAlogo.jpg
MAP: http://is.gd/aF8Ih
30 Belvidere Street
Nazareth, PA 18064

RICHARD LAINHART ON-LINE:
website: http://otownmedia.com
short films: http://vimeo.com/rlainhart
demo and training videos: http://youtube.com/rlainhart

RICHARD LAINHART BIOGRAPHY:
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, 
Infrequency, VICMOD, 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 150 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, Portugal, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and 
Korea, and online at Souvenirs From Earth, ResFest, The New Venue, The 
Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. His film "A Haiku Setting" won 
mentions 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", a 
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. In January 2010, he 
performed as a featured Live Media audio-visual artist at Netmage 2010 
in Bologna, Italy.

Review quotes:

[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)

"These pieces are a reflection of their times ¿ the vocal harmonics of 
Stockhausen¿s Stimmung, the extended durations of Morton Feldman and the 
claustrophobic atmosphere of Kubrick¿s 2001 all spring to mind as 
reference points." (The Wire)

"The listener is drawn into these dense, slowly moving, highly detailed 
soundscapes as into a vortex." (Brian Marley, Avant Magazine)

"The work is minimal and yet elaborate, expansive, meditative, a kind of 
holy timelessness to it." (Radio 100, Amsterdam)

"Lainhart crafts sounds in a tonal, musical fashion - sustained tones, 
drones, melodic fragments - and electronically manipulates them into 
beautiful tapestries of sound." (Waterfront Week)

"More than anything else, Richard Lainhart's sonic constructions inhabit 
a place where mystery and ambiguity resonate with untranslatable meaning 
through process and perception." (Kevin Macneil Brown, Dusted Magazine)