Richard Chartier

Re'post'postfabricated Richard Chartier

D. C.-based Richard Chartier is a minimal sound artist/composer and graphic designer who explores the relationship between sound, silence and the act of listening. Re'Post'Postfabricated is a reformed/remastered version of Postfabricated, which was Chartier's third full length CD, and was recorded between 1998 and 1999 via analog connections to Minidisc and afterwards mastered at a studio. The Minidisc compression, combined with a studio engineer not accustomed to this type of recorded material compromised the details of the sounds. In the words of Chartier himself, "Noting this difference upon listening to the source files, I began to reconstruct the entire work digitally, utilizing the original components. Originally all the tracks were recorded in real time with no overdubs following a score for each piece arranged in advance. For this rerecording, having lost many of these notations, I diagrammed each arrangement and have replicated the pieces as closely as possible." Postfabricated was originally released in 1999 on Microwave/Staalplaat as a CD-R edition of 222. Re'Post'Postfabricated then, is a reconstruction of how Postfabricated was intended to sound. The artists on CD2 that were given sound source files to create new works (remixes/reworkings) out of the Postfabricated material include: Coh, Vend, Asmus Tietchens, Frank Bretschneider, Goem, Taylor Deupree, Alva Noto, Freiband, Sogar, Byetone, Matmos and Steve Roden.