William Basinski & Richard Chartier - Untitled 1-3

LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier’s universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works ‘Untitled 3′ and ‘Untitled 3 (reprise)’ and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree.

“Untitled 1″ contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. “Untitled 2″ contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. “Untitled 3/3(reprise)” contain Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. “Untitled 3″ mixed by Basinski. “Untitled 3(reprise)” mixed by Chartier.

“Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling “The Garden of Brokenness” after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine. I popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different things…eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy with the result. Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one and again, it just worked with something else I had been working on…the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! I love Richard’s work…very elegant, like the man!” – William Basinski.

William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 25 years in NYC. His haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life resounding with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. His epic 4-disc masterwork, The Disintegration Loops, received international critical acclaim and was chosen as one of the top 50 albums of 2004 by Pitchfork Media. Art Forum selected The River, his transcendental 2-disc shortwave music experiment on Raster-Noton (Germany) as one of the top ten albums of 2003. Installations and concert presentations made in collaboration with artist-filmmaker, James Elaine have been presented internationally, most recently at TodaysArt Festival in The Hague, Filosophia Festival, Italy, Cite de la Musique, Paris, and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Basinski’s latest album, El Camino Real, was released in july 2007 on 2062/usa and is distributed internationally. www.mmlxii.com

Richard Chartier, sound/installation artist and graphic designer, has created critically acclaimed recordings for labels such as 12k/LINE (USA), Raster-Noton (Germany), Die Stadt (Germany), Spekk Japan), NonVisualObjects (Austria), Mutek_rec (Canada), DSP (Italy), ERS (NL), Trente Oiseaux (Germany),and Fallt (Ireland), including collaborations with noted artists Taylor Deupree, William Basinski, COH, and Asmus Tietchens and has appeared on numerous international compilations. His digital minimalist work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening. www.3particles.com

Chartier’s sound works and sound installations have been presented internationally including at the exhibits Sounding Spaces at ICC (Tokyo, Japan), I Moderni / The Moderns at Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy), 2002 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Resynthesis at The Art Institute of Chicago and with the travelling sound exhibit Invisible Cities created by digital media curators Fehler as well as solo and collaborative installations for Fusebox (DC), 1515 Arts/G Fine Art (DC), Die Schachtel (Milan, Italy), and Diapason (NY). He has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at MUTEK (Montreal, Canada), GRM/Maison de Radio France (Paris, France), ICA (London, UK), Observatori (Valencia, Spain), DEAF (Dublin, Ireland), Transmediale (Berlin, Germany), Lovebytes (Sheffield, UK), The Leeds International Film Festival (Leeds,UK), The Rotterdam International Film Festival (NE), Garage (Stralsund, Germany), La Batie (Geneva, switzerland), and other noted digital art/music festivals and at exhibits such as Frequenzen [Hz] at the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, Germany) and A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 and Visual Music at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles).

In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists and composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism. The premiere release on LINE, Chartier’s Series as awarded Honorable Mention in the category of Digital Music by the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, 2001 (Austria). In 2006 he was commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to create a collaborative sound performance work in conjunction with the Hiroshi Sugimoto retrospective exhibit. This work, entitled Specification.Fifteen was recently awarded one of five Honorable Mentions for outstanding contemporary artistic positions in digital media art by the Jury of Transmediale.07 Award Competition (Germany) and exhibited as a recording and premiered as a live performance with a new video work created from Sugimoto’s Seascapes at the Akademie der Kuenste (Berlin) and subsequently at Issue Project Room (NY).

In 2007, Chartier, invited by the Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, curated two evenings of video and sound at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and at G Fine Art in Washington, DC and Ellipse Art Center in Arlington, VA, entitled ColorField REMIX with an array of internationally noted new media artists responding to the 1950s and 1960s Color Field visual art movement and the Washington Color School, as part of a city wide celebration of this historical movement. An updated program screening, Colorfield Variations has subsequently been shown at festivals in New York and Seattle (USA), Brussels (Belgium), and Tel Aviv (Israel) and continues to travel.

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