Richard Garrett was born in London, UK in 1957 and grew up in Stroud, Gloucestershire. He started playing guitar and bass at the age of sixteen and has been writing music ever since.
Over the years, Richard has played in noisy rock bands including Live Needle, The Usual Suspects and, most notably, Lightening Rock Technology Collective (pictured below); accompanied poets and dijeridu players; sung solo in folk clubs; sat in a pit orchestra for pantomime; studied singing, Indian Rag and Cosmic Theatre with French composer/ performer Gilles Petit; and has attended the well-known Glamorgan Jazz Summer School in Pontypridd several times.
Richard has been involved in sound 
recording since he was at school. He has worked in a commercial studio and as a technician for the Music Department at the University of Bristol. He has released six albums to date (see catalogue) and has also worked with computers as a musician, programmer, teacher and journalist.
In 2003, along with Brian Eno and others, Richard contributed some of his generative music (including pieces used to create the album Robot Sculpture) to “Dark Symphony”, a mammoth five-day, 250,000 watt outdoor exhibit at the prestigious Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. Richard has studied MAX/MSP at Goldsmiths College, London; and, in 2004, attended the 2nd annual Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM) at the University of California, Santa Cruz with David Cope, Peter Elsea and others.
One of Richard’s larger projects has been Weathersongs, a project to generate electronic music from the weather, the real time element of which has given public performances in Wales and at Thunderstorms 2007, an international metereology conference in Veneto, Italy. An album of music generated by this installation, entitled Weathersongs Volume 1: Days in Wales is for sale on this site. For more about the project, visit the Weathersongs website.
Richard lives in an isolated Welsh farmhouse, halfway between the mountains of Snowdonia and the sea, with his wife, Heather and their son, Sean.