Sunday Dance: News 2001-2003

NEWS 2001 -2003

Robot Sculpture in Novosibirsk

"Siberia As It Is" pic: Serge Tikhanoff Richard's album "Robot Sculpture" was recently played by Radio Penguin in Novosibirsk, Siberia. Serge Tikhanoff of Radio Penguin writes:

"Thank You so much for perfectly brilliant Robot Sculpture!!! We were glad and proud discover Your splendid, incredibly interesting work, for us and for our audience, touch highest culture and mastery."

Thank you Serge for your kind words.

(09/03)

Richard's Music at Ars Electronica 2003

Richard Garrett has been asked to contribute a number of generative music pieces to this year's Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. This festival of art, technology and society, entitled CODE - the Language of Our Time, will run from 6th to 11th September. During this time, Richard's music will feature as part of a ninety-six hour outdoor exhibit entitled Dark Symphony, to be broadcast across a 160,000 Watt PA system in Linz's Klangpark on the banks of the Danube.

The full list of contributors to Dark Symphony is as follows:

Brian Eno (UK), Paul Cohen (AUSTRALIA), Tim Cole (UK), Tim Didymus (UK), Andrew Garton (AUSTRALIA), Richard Garrett (UK), Michael Hagleitner (AUSTRIA), Mark Harrop (UK), Al Jolley (UK), Yoshio Machida (JAPAN), Kelvin L. Smith (UK), Emilia Telese (ITALY), Mashashi Genzan Yano (JAPAN) and Steve Grainger (UK).

If things go to plan, Richard will be there to check it out himself!

(08/03)

Further acclaim for Robot Sculpture in 2003

Since the New Year, Robot Sculpture has received the following endorsements:

• Inclusion in Star's End significant albums list for 2002 (Pennsylvania USA)
• An enthusiastic review in Margen magazine issue 25 (Spain)
• Top 20 listing for May (#10) and February/ March (#19) on Mystic Music radio show (California USA)

Robot Sculpture is available for purchase online or by mail order from this site.

(06/03)

Solstice Greetings track still available

For midwinter/ midsummer 2003, Richard recorded a short instrumental version of a traditional English carol called "Christmas is now drawing near at hand". For more details and to listen to it online, Click Here.

(01/03)

Robot Sculpture in Star's End Top 20!

Since March 2002, Richard Garrett's latest CD album Robot Sculpture has been played several times on broadcast radio in Europe, Australia and the USA (see airplay) and, in April, was listed in the Top 20/ Significant releases list on Chuck Van Zyl's Star's End radio show on WXPN in Pennsylvania.

Richard guests on Dark Time

In February 2002, Richard did some guitar playing on a new track by Yorkshire based Uncertain Music Corps. The track started off as a piece of Koan Music which Mark Harrop provided as a guide track. To this, Richard added a number of guitar parts which Mark then arranged to taste. You can hear it on the UMCorps' MP3.com page (here ).

Full Tracks Online at mp3.com

You can now listen four full tracks from Robot Sculpture on Richard's page at mp3.com. They are: "Messages", "Kagemusha", "Alcazar" and "Play What's Not There". Each one is available free in high and low quality streaming mpeg-3 formats.