Richard Devine

For other people named Richard Devine, see Richard Devine (disambiguation).

Richard Devine
Birth name	Richard Coleman Devine
Also known as	Trapezoid
Origin	Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Genres	Glitchcore IDM
Instruments	Synthesizer Softsynth Computer
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Schematic Records, Warp Records, Sublight
Website	richard-devine.com

Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician and sound designer. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from hip-hop to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records, which was founded by Josh Kay of Phoenecia. He has also done extensive recording and sample work with Josh Kay under the name DEVSND. As a result of praise of his music from Autechre as well as a remix of Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy, Devine recorded an album for Warp Records which was jointly released by Schematic and Warp.

Devine first started using computers for composition around 1993. Don Hassler, an instructor at the Atlanta College of Art, got him interested in computer synthesis, introducing Devine to Csound and other powerful computer-based applications. Devine coded his own FFT applications in SuperCollider, an environment and programming language for real-time audio synthesis. “It’s interesting, because you’re doing things to sound that just aren’t physically possible.”

Devine also uses Native Instruments (NI) software. His favorite NI applications are Reaktor and Absynth. Devine has designed sound patches for NI’s Absynth, Reaktor, Battery and Massive, along with providing sound patches to Moog Music's award-winning Animoog app. He has also scored commercials for Nike, Touchstone Pictures and engineered and performed his own music worldwide.

Though he has contributed sound design to a number of hardware and software manufacturers, he recently released his first official sample library through Sony Creative Software entitled The Electronic Music Manuscript: A Richard Devine Collection

Discography

• Richard Devine EP (1995) Schematic SCH005 12"
• Lipswitch (2000) Schematic/Warp SCH015/WAP139 LP CD
• Aleamapper (2001) Schematic SCH019 LP CD
• Asect:Dsect (2003) Schematic SCH023 LP CD
• Cautella (2005) Sublight SLR601 CD
• RISP (2012) Detroit Underground

External links

• richard-devine.com
• Schematic Records
• Warp Records
• Sublight Records, Inc.