Label Profile : LINE

Interview with Richard Chartier

Hey Richard, thank you for joining us. What did you do this past weekend?
this past weekend i bought a huge mid century executive desk designed by Jens Risom for my studio/office. and my partner Robert and i went to see the new ColorForms exhibit and Joseph Albers Retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. We also celebrated the great news that i had been awarded the Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship to explore/record the Museum of Natural History’s collection of 19th Century acoustic apparatus for scientific demonstration.

Let's start at the beginning. How did you first get into music?
one of the first records i remember playing (which belonged to my parents) was Kraftwerk's Autobahn. i am not sure how it got there as it was so different from al the other records they owned.

What about the first time when you started producing? What did you use?
i think my first synthesizer was a Yamaha DX100 this was probably in 1985? i did not formally start making "serious" electronic music until 1989

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