Richard Kamerman

Richard Kamerman

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Richard Kamerman has been breaking electronics and crashing computers while trying to coax interesting and unpredictable sounds out of them since the early 2000s. Occasionally, he has also presented himself as a more serious composer of re-performable written music. Keywords: amplification, magnification, obfuscation, systems design, game theory, patterns, human error, accident, failure. Increasingly over the years, storytelling has also become an integral facet of his performance practice. Although a firm believer in the axiom that "one man's trash is another man's treasure," he ceased collecting his instruments from piles of junk left on the curb several years ago, fearing he might bring home bedbugs.

Recordings of his solo or collaborative works have been released by Erstwhile Records, Pilgrim Talk, Contour Editions, RRRecords, and Engraved Glass, among others. Kamerman has performed or had his music performed throughout the US as well as internationally in Canada, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia and Chile.

No Idea 2025 performances:
* First-time duo with electronic musician DROMEZ (Friday, October 24)
* Established duo with saxophonist Michael Foster (Saturday night, October 25)

This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.