Richard Knight
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Richard Knight.
Knight’s unique method uses mixing desks as sound sources: a typically passive audio device subverted to become an expressive instrument. His pulsing, crisp-white, and starkly beautiful music is derived from the tenuous area between feedback and feedforward – the hazy and perplexing cusp between order and chaos.
His uniquely purist approach is combined with minimal post-recording adjustments, making the final product all the more astonishing.
His new LP for Concrete Moniker is something very original indeed, a warm and welcoming introduction to all interested in Richard’s unique world, as well as a must for fans of Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda and the other output by the pioneering Raster Noton label.
Richard co-curates the bi-monthly Manchester based electroacoustic/improvisation evening, ‘Electronic Organica‘ and also produces avant-house music under various aliases including ‘JERK’ and Underbaud’.
Other no-input mixer related projects include ‘Closed Circuit’, techno music made solely with mixing desks; ‘Partial Trust’, a performance-based collaboration with Abigail Sanders (French Horn) and an eponymous live orientated collaboration with Rodrigo Constanzo.