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Eric Richards has been composing, in his own unassuming way, for more than forty years. The works included on this recording span the latter half of that time period (roughly 1983-2003). These mysterious and magical works spring from a personal aesthetic that is completely American. In his willingness to experiment with sound for its own sake, without constraint by accepted formal or technical procedures, and in his invention of new rhythmic and textural effects as well as his innovations in musical notation, which parallel the originality of his musical ideas, Eric Richards is an important extension of the American Experimentalist--tradition one that includes composers Henry Cowell, John Cage, Morton Feldman, and James Tenney.