Richard Chartier

Minimal sound artist and graphic designer Richard Chartier explores the fine line between silence and digital composition, crafting nearly inaudible music intended for low-volume or headphone listening. Although he has issued his music through a variety of international labels, including 12k, Raster-Noton, and Spekk, Chartier has also used the Line label -- originally a 12k subsidiary, then independent -- as an outlet for himself and dozens of works by the similarly minded likes of Asmus Tietchens, Bernhard Günter, and William Basinski. Series (2000), his debut Line release, r...