Robert Rich and the Long Now: The Echoes Interview
Robert Rich is the 11th of 30 Icons of Echoes, and has been a fixture on the show from the first day. He’s a polymath who is not only adept at many instruments but many other disciplines. They include audio recording and mastering, wine making and dream theory. He writes poetry, seriously, and he creates beautifully abstract, often primal paintings that you can buy on his website. He’s an artist of questing intellectualism, which is what brought him to the poetry of Tu Fu from the Chinese Tang Dynasty. The Zen-like poems, translated by David Hinton, compelled Rich to create the sensual, ethereal moods of his album, Travelers’ Cloth. But there’s more than that, including Rich’s youthful hippie, techno-futurism, his current anti-humanism and rain drops falling on his head. We talk all about it on Echoes from PRX.
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Read John Diliberto’s CD of the Month review of Robert Rich’s Travelers’ Cloth
Robert Rich’s Travelers’ Cloth was #1 on The Best of Echoes 2023, So Far. See the complete list.
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Monday, July 17, 2023 – Echoes Program 2329A |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | AMAARA | Photographs | Child of Venus |
| 0:06:00 | Balmorhea | Held | Pendant World |
| 0:09:50 | Lamb | The Silence in Between | The Secret of Letting Go |
| 0:12:53 | BT | k-means clustering- Producer’s Cut | The Secret Language of Trees |
| 0:20:16 | Alu | Land of Nothing | Mrs. Hypochondriac |
| 0:23:43 | Plaid | Melifer | The Digging Remedy |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Robert Rich | ||
| 0:46:55 | Robert Rich | Loom of Origins | Travelers’ Cloth |
| 0:53:34 | Rose of the West | Roads | Rose of the West |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Erik Scott | Victory | In the Company of Clouds |
| 1:06:00 | Nashville Ambient Ensemble | Prism | Light and Space |
| 1:11:39 | Kinobe | Falling Star | Over the Horizon |
| 1:16:10 | Symbion Project | Arcadian | Arcadian |
| 1:20:58 | Taiyō Rey | Maybe in Berlin | Shattering Stimuli |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Austra | It’s Amazing | Hirudin |
| 1:34:15 | Johan Agebjörn | Dulciter Somni (Subtracted Version) | Subtracted Soundscapes |
| 1:38:41 | London Grammar | Dancing By Night (with Sebastian) | Dancing by Night (Single) |
| 1:42:14 | Grandbrothers | Bloom | Late Reflections |
| 1:47:24 | break | ||
| 1:48:14 | Sigur Rós | Fall | ATTA |
| 1:51:28 | Quiet Resonance | Rescue | Snowblind |
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Love the data-processing references by BT like FFT, convolution (I was impressed that JD didn’t ask in the interview), and k(no pause)-means clustering. The last was something I programmed nearly 40 years ago for analysis of astronomical data, long before machine learning.