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Pink Nothing

by Tom Richards

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    12" vinyl version of Tom Richards's nonclassical release 'Pink Nothing'. Sleeve artwork design by Alex Gowan-Webster.

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‘There’s a lot of serendipity involved in wrestling grooves out of these awkward machines’, says Richards about the process behind the record. ‘A large part of the composition is making the machines and the patches. They define the limitations of the pieces coming together. Then the performances are happy accidents - found using intuition and practice.’

Made up of two studio sessions and one live recording, PINK NOTHING reflects the unusual space Richards inhabits musically. It’s partly informed by his background as a PhD student at Goldsmiths, where he re-imagined and built the Mini Oramics machine – a 'drawn sound' instrument first conceived by electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram, and finally realised by Richards in 2016.

But Richards is also an autodidact beat-maker, and much of the structures and sounds on PINK NOTHING derive from dance music, while his influences also include ritual trance, Ghanaian drum choir music, and the cellular rhythms of Steve Reich. ‘It’s polyrhythmic abstract electronica’ – and he emphasises – ‘listening music'.

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released July 13, 2018

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Tom Richards London, UK

Hardware based electronic music using instruments designed and built by the artist. Tom also reimagined and constructed Daphne Oram's unfinished 'Mini Oramics' graphic sound synthesiser system.

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