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Reifenstein

Charlottesville,Charlottesville, VA  USA
January 25, 2000
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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.
Band/artist history
Richard has been composing and recording music for fifteen years. Richard has enjoyed success in writing and recording music for theater. As well as music for theater, Richard also creates custom sound effects for local theaters. Two productions that Richard is proud of are Shakespeares "As You Like It" in which Richard composed original modern music to go with lyrics written in the play. The second is "Garret the Blue Giraffe". For Garett Richard wrote three pieces for dance sequences. Garret was performed in New York and Pittsburgh. Currently he is working with Gary Streiner and Rick Father on the Fan Music page of the Living Dead Festival in Evans City Pa. Rick wrote the Festival theme and is now producing the Fan Music section.
Have you performed in front of an audience?
I am concentrating on soundtrack work as well as sound design. I like playing live, however my current music styles don't lend themselves to a lot of live shows.
Your musical influences
Hans Zimmer, Alan Parsons Project, Tangerine Dream, Queen, King Crimson,Pink Floyd,Adrian Belew,Tin Machine.
What equipment do you use?
Logic Studio Pro, M-Audio Interfaces and Keyboards, Roland PC-200 MK2 MIDI Controller, Roland GR1,Roland Juno,Emu Proteus,Moog Prodigy,various guitars,and software synths.
Anything else?
Rick is available for sound design and composition commissions. Send an email to the address provided. Also feel free to visit www.myspace.com/richardreifenstein for Ricks online journal, and photos.
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