Bio: Austrian Richard Eigner writes spook-inducing ambient tracks that ransack your cranium's music shelves for boxes marked 'jazz', 'minimal' and 'electronica'. His hypnotic passages won Austria's Elektronikland Award (for experimental electronics) in 2005 and will soon be showcased on his record label Wald-Entertainment. A multimedia whiz, 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 clips for I-Wolf and Mika, and six months spent as Patrick Pulsinger's 'studio slave', helping on remixes and building a sound library. Richard also reckons he can distinguish the different saw-waves from Nord Modular and N.I. Reaktor, and there's no way we're calling him a liar. Richard has performed, collaborated, and recorded with Patrick Pulsinger, Patrick Wolf, Carl McIntosh (Loose Ends), Todd Simon, Toby Laing (Fat Freddys Drop), Flying Lotus, August Engkilde, Andreya Triana, Gerald Votava, Thomas Jarmer (Garish), Matthias Kertal (Mika), Tibcurl, Barca Barxant (Silicone Pumpgun), Oliver Hangl, Ellen Muhr (A Bunny Situation), Gerhard Daurer, Roman Gerold.
Richard also has played at Sónar/Barcelona, Horse Bazaar/Melbourne, Honkytonks/Melbourne, Basics Festival, Temp~ Festival, ORF Radiokulturhaus/Vienna, Soho Ottakring/Vienna, Flex/Vienna, Fluc/Vienna, Rhiz/Vienna, Das Veilchen/Graz, Arge Nonntal/Salzburg. Visit Richard at one of his web sites: http://www.myspace.com/richardeigner/, http://www.virb.com/richardeigner/, http://www.ritornell.at, http://www.wald-entertainment.com
