Robert Rich (born August 23, 1963) is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States.
They were usually nine hours long and lasted from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.[4] During these performances, he would generate abstract drones and atmospheres while the audience dozed in sleeping bags that they brought themselves.
[6] At Stanford, Rich earned his degree in psychology, studying sleep and consciousness with Stephen LaBerge, an expert in lucid dreaming.
Another contrasting style present in this album Rich calls "glurp," which represents organic, liquid, and subterranean sounds.
[16] In the years that followed, he developed a complex range of sounds founded upon the seamless integration of electronic, electric, and acoustic instrumentation, and the exploration of just intonation tuning.
His interest in using unique sounds inspired him to create a large collection of original field recordings and homemade instruments.
[19] His collaborators over the years have included Steve Roach, Brian "Lustmord" Williams, Lisa Moskow, Alio Die, and Ian Boddy, among others.
The group released three albums featuring ex-Urdu members Rick Davies and Andrew McGowan at different times, including Eye Catching (1993), Watchful (1997), and Pivot (2000).
[28] On March 11, 2005, Rich suffered a hand injury while cleaning a glass jug, accidentally slipping and falling on top of it.
[31] In 2007, he also released the album Illumination, a companion soundtrack of a multimedia installation by Michael Somoroff, originally created for the Rothko chapel.