Knight’s interests include feedback, modeling organic processess with digital systems, machine learning for composition, data driven art, automated analysis and composition, and making phat beats.
Many of his aspirations are based on a controversial foundation, with focus on a hypothetical singularity whereby music performance and composition can be fully automised, and musicians as we know them can be relieved of their duties forever.
Until then, and at the Noise Upstairs this month, Knight will be performing a depraved blend of coarse humour and tender insult using a computer and no-input mixer – a passive audio device subverted to become an expressive instrument.
Richard Knight releases improvised and composed music under his own name, in addition to his current production projects Michael Vinus (polyrhythmic techno), Tarball (deep house) and Lentboy (footstep/doorstep).
| Who | Richard Knight – 12 December 2013 |
| When |
Thursday, December 12, 2013
8:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
448 Wilmslow Road
Manchester, England M20 3BW |
| Other Info | Raised in the surroundings of conflicting natural beauty and industrial decay of northern England, many of Knight’s primary influences are based around the clash between organic and electronic. He began producing music and playing in diverse experimental bands/projects in and around Leeds, but had always been motivated by the the possibilities of encapsulating avant-garde stylings within more immediately unassuming mediums. In addition to using computers as artistic tools, Knight often utilises specifically controlled feedback as an instrument. The unique method uses mixing desks as sound sources: a typically passive audio device subverted to become an expressive instrument. Of most intrigue is the tenuous area between feedback and feedforward – the hazy and perplexing cusp between order and chaos. |
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