Ricks' music has been used as soundtracks for many theatrical productions in Pittsburgh and New York. Rick has been providing original music and sound design for dramatic purposes since the early 90's. Using his skills as an analog and digital synth programmer, accomplished guitarist as well as recording engineer; Rick has worked with many talented artists, theatrical directors and producers as well many local bands. Rick has Produced and engineered three nationaly released CD's; R.S.O.'s "Hide and Seek", Digital Buddha's self titled debut on London label Synthetic Music, and the Hard Luck Kings debut "One More For the Road" Distributed by Statue Records. Rick is involved in several bands including "Cyberia" as the Synth-Guitarist, keyboardist, and Roots Rock band the "Hard Luck Kings" as guitarist. Both Cyberia and the Hard Luck Kings can be heard here on soundclick.com
Currently Rick has moved to Virginia to be the Audio/Visual Systems Engineer for the University of Virginia. He's set up a small home studio called Quantum Manifold which is where he is working on the latest Reifenstein releases and future Cyberia releases. Prior to moving to Virginia in May of 2005, he co-wrote music for the soundtrack to Kim Rullo's art installation, titled "Nude Pittsburgh" with fellow Cyberia founder David Rullo.