Richard Chartier (born 1971) is a Los Angeles based sound artist / composer considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier's works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself.
His works have been published since 1998 on
Room40,
Editions Mego,
Important Records, Ash International /
Touch, mAtter, Raster-Noton, Spekk, Trente Oiseaux, NVO, Farmacia901, 12k, and his own imprint LINE.
He has collaborated with William Basinski, ELEH,
France Jobin, Robert Curgenven,
Taylor Deupree, AGF, CoH, and Yann Novak,
Asmus Tietchens... In installation form, he has created works with multimedia artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, visual artist Linn Meyers, and projected light artist Anthony McCall. Under his guise Pinkcourtesyphone, an ambient project restarted in 2012, he has collaborated with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kid Congo Powers, harpist Gwyneth Wentink, AGF, and thereminist Evelina Domnitch.
