Richard Eigner

Austrian Richard Eigner writes spook-inducing ambient tracks that ransack your cranium’s music shelves for boxes marked »Jazz«, »Minimal Music” and »Electronica«. His hypnotic passages won Austria’s Elektronikland Award (for experimental electronics) in 2005 and will soon be showcased pn renowned record label Karaoke Kalk. A session drummer (for example on Patrick Wolf's album Magic Position) and animator, other projects include the soundtrack for dance piece ‘Urgent Appetite’ by Canadian choreographer Laura Kappel, music videosfor I-Wolf and Mika, works for Ö1 Artradio, the improvised electronics trio »Daurer/Eigner/Gerold«, organising and curating events for the Red Bull Music Academy and six months spent as Patrick Pulsinger’s studio assistant, helping on remixes and building a sound library. Most recently his composition »Concrete Leaves« was selected by Bruce LaBruce for his melancholy gay zombie movie »Otto; or, up with dead people«.



Worked with Patrick Pulsinger, Patrick Wolf, Carl McIntosh (Loose Ends), Pamelia Kurstin, Hilary Jeffery, Franz Hautzinger, Todd Simon, Toby Laing (Fat Freddys Drop), Dimlite, Flying Lotus, Wolfgang "Fadi" Dorninger, August Engkilde, Andreya Triana, Gerald Votava, Thomas Jarmer (Garish), Matthias Kertal (Mika), Tibcurl, Barca Barxant (Silicone Pumpgun), Oliver Hangl, Ellen Muhr (A Bunny Situation), Mike Honeycutt, Gerhard Daurer, Roman Gerold.



Played at Sónar/Barcelona, Horse Bazaar/Melbourne, Honkytonks/Melbourne, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Wundergrund Festival Copenhagen, Tuned City Festival/Berlin, Ars Electronica Festival, Schmiede Hallein, Basics Festival, Temp~ Festival, ORF Radiokulturhaus/Vienna, Soho Ottakring/Vienna, Icke Micke/Planetarium, Flex/Vienna, Fluc/Vienna, Rhiz/Vienna, Das Veilchen/Graz, Arge Nonntal/Salzburg, Jazzit/Salzburg.



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