User:Mike richard

Mike Richard was born in Santa Ana [Orange Klownty], CA, in 1967. He is an Image-Musik-Text-Theater Re-Writer, independent researcher, undisciplined theorist, masseur and student. He uses computer, his voice, and plays piano or keyboards with analog synth sounds. His text-scores enable other performers to create a secondary symbolic network, or even formations of collectives or sociological constellations. This socio-political factory scenario is an undisciplined, performative, and unrepresentational potential for music, text, image, and theatre. His Compositions at CalArts, studying with Michael Pisaro, have been experiments with the usages of music, texts, theater, and image including, _Affects, Affections 1-4_ [2002], _The Ethics (5 Composers, 5 Chapters, 5 days): Chapter 3: On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions_ [2003], _Stalker (new soundtrack)_[2003], _For Michael Pisaro 1-8 (2002), _Le Bergsonisme_ [2004], and _Bartleby 1_ [2005]. Mikes current indie-industrial bedroom synth-plop project is called _struggle at the snuggle factory_, and has just completed his new album, _Nietzscheo-Kainian Songs for Fetishismo-Industrial Snugglies_, and is now working on the sequel to that called _Dichotometrik and Demological: Nietzscheo-Kainian Songs Vol 2_ simultaneously with the third album around and about TYR myth kulture traditions, Norse magik, and WW2 called, _WWUUFFWWUUFFWWUUFF[6]_ due to be completed in 2006. Past synthplop projects of this sort have been MJR33 (91-93), Red Lodge (93-95), and Jack's Loss (96-00). The Canadien My Mean Magpie Records has recently included _struggle at the snuggle factory_ on the _Relax Brother Relax: A Twentieth Anniverary Tribute to Teenbeat Records_album available online, and the label has released Mike's compy,_Affections,affects 1-4_ in April, 2005. Mike's compies have also appeared on _Klang .3_ cd on the German Klaeng Records, and on _Moods For Misty Evenings_ LP on San Francisco's 455 Records. Jack's Loss appeared on the Teenbeat records tribute cd vol.one, _Amateurs on Plastic_ on the Canadien, My Mean Magpie/Unlike labels, and Red Lodge appeared on the _Afterburn_ cassette on Virginian, Rocker Supernova Records. Mike has also played keyboards for Omewenne, Amber Asylum, The Flower Cops, Steven Brown, and Chad Jasmine. Some of the places Mike and friends have performed are Spaceland, KLXU radio, Al's Bar, The Smell, Cole's Restaurant, CalArts, John Sims Center for the Performing Arts, The Lab, The Black Cat, and Highways Performance Space. Scores and cds of Mikes compies and past albums are self-published/ self-produced by Jack Ed Radar Kommodities (Jerk).