Submitted By: Sneaky

Genre: Electronic

Date of Set: Jan 23rd, 2005

Filesize: 85.00 MB

Total Downloads: 36

Richard Devine is at the cutting edge of new edge of sound design and musical composition. During the past three years, Richard Devine has remixed top Warp artists like Aphex Twin and Mike Patton (Faith No More). He has released 4 full-length albums on Schematic, Warp, Asphodel, and Sublight records and has performed his own ear-tearing music mayhem worldwide. Based in Atlanta, Georgia he has done film score work for Touchstone Pictures (with John Hues & Kyle Cooper), Wieden & Kennedy, AKQA Inc., and has done sound mangling/programming for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. He is currently doing sound design for Sony Play station PS3 (Infected) for Dawn of the Dead and recently completed all the sound design for the new xbox360.

In conjunction with TV and film work Richard also has done programming and sound design work with major audio companies. His work has been featured on new software and hardware titles from many innovative companies such as Native Instruments, Korg, Clavia Nord, Alesis, Ableton Live, Apple Computers, Openlabs, Universal Audio, Hartmann Neuron synthesizers, Stanton Magnetics DJ Company, and M-Audio Division.

'Musically he masterfully orchestrates a titanic array of rapidly moving information, cleverly channelling it into an organized stream of sound. There are seemingly endless layers of rhythms, spanning every notch of frequency, spiralling around one another like complex DNA strands hinged together in a grid-like lattice. Never competing, never repeating the same phrase. The result is amazement, awe. The human mind can only process so much information at one time. Devine knows this well, it is one of his sonic weapons. It is a lot like optic art, when the eyes are fed too much data and the overload produces a prismatic, entrancing effect. 'Entrancing' is not the word you would think to apply towards music whose elements rarely repeat themselves, but the groove is there, like a strange, mechanical funk music, and everything else revolves around it. Like a million minuscule sounds, obediently marching to the cadence of a heavy step. The music is in the beat itself. It is 'funk for robots', a broken and restructured music. Mathematically reconstructed with futuristic tools, conceived by a highly evolved mind. For this, Richard Devine has become something of a hero to the overqualified working underclass, because he shows us a glimpse of a world where those with technological skills rule.'

http://www.myspace.com/richarddevine

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