The music of New York based percussionist and electrician, Richard Kamerman, is devoted to a very subjective perception of liminal beauty. Rarely performing behind a drum kit, he prefers to explore the percussive behaviors of re-purposed electronics, ranging from computer circuit boards to a system of found mechanical parts - fans, motors, etc - that he has been developing since mid 2006. Room acoustics, microphone/pickup placement, and amplification are all very important to his construction of sound.
Ongoing projects include Delicate Sen (percussion+electronics with Anne Guthrie, french horn, and Billy Gomberg, synthesizer/laptop); Caledonian Laughing Bags (multi-instrumental naive folk noise with Robert Hardin, Bob Lukomski, Jeremy Slater, and Khristian Weeks); and Tandem Electrics (amplified laptop circuits with programmer Reed Evan Rosenberg). Other past and present collaborators include Kieran Daly, Ricky Laska, Jordan Paul, Bonnie Jones, Bryan Eubanks, Andrew Lafkas, Jonathan Zorn, Gill Arno, Gust Burns, Gregory Reynolds, Jesse Kudler, Kai Fagaschinski, Juan Pablo Carletti, Jeremiah Cymerman, Dave Barnes, David Kirby, Nicholas Szczepanik, and Steven Flato.
Recent experiments in creating objectively awful music without even trying have resulted in Other Vultures, a bourbon-driven duo of taiko drums and distorted vocals with Billy Gomberg.
