Richard’s reputation as a landscape-inspired composer has led to many commissions from arts organisations. These include a longform composition for the deep history of the Isle of Skye, UK (Atlas Arts), a storm-inspired collaboration with the Elysian Quartet (Aldeburgh Music), and the burial and disinterment of a violin at Ouseburn, UK (AV Festival). His album Towards a Frontier was commissioned as part of an artist’s residency at Skaftfell, Iceland, in response to the landscape of the Eastern Fjords. It was later premiered at Unsound Festival in Kraków.

More recently, he composed music for Theatre Complicite’s adaptation of the Olga Tokarczuk novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and worked alongside academic researchers on Looking Up, an Irish Research Council-funded project that examined the glacial landscape of Scotland’s Cairngorm mountains. As a result of Looking Up, Richard composed and performed Plateau, an auditory time-lapse history of the Scottish uplands dating from the height of the last Ice Age to the beginning of the Holocene – a period spanning some 20,000 years.

Richard has played his music at numerous events across the UK, Europe, and further afield. He has performed at Suoni Per Il Popolo (Canada), MadeiraDig (Portugal), Borealis Festival (Norway), Sonda Festival (Czech Republic), Kiezsalon (Germany), and Heart of Noise (Austria), among others. He has also written and performed work specifically for acoustically resonant spaces, including the Österreichische Postsparkasse (Vienna), Brinkburn Priory (UK), the Oude Kerk (Amsterdam) and the Corpus Christi Chapel (Olomouc) – the latter featuring music inspired by Olomouc-born composer Gottfried Finger.

Alongside his soundworks, Richard has produced short films, collages, prints, artefacts and texts for a range of commissioning bodies, and this work has been exhibited widely, including at The Douglas Hyde Gallery (Ireland), the Hatton Gallery (UK), Abbot Hall Art Gallery (UK), and Bergen Kunsthall (Norway). He has also given talks and workshops, and, more recently, he has led a course in experiment archival poetics at the Poetry School (UK).

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