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Richard Eigner

my best friends are sounds.

About Me


Austrian Richard Eigner writes spook-inducing ambient tracks that ransack your cranium’s music shelves for boxes marked »Jazz«, »Minimal Music” and »Electronica«. His hypnotic passages won Austria’s Elektronikland Award (for experimental electronics) in 2005 and will soon be showcased pn renowned record label Karaoke Kalk. A session drummer (for example on Patrick Wolf's album Magic Position) and animator , other projects include the soundtrack for dance piece ‘Urgent Appetite’ by Canadian choreographer Laura Kappel, music videosfor I-Wolf and Mika, works for Ö1 Artradio, the improvised electronics trio »Daurer/Eigner/Gerold«, organising and curating events for the Red Bull Music Academy and six months spent as Patrick Pulsinger’s studio assistant, helping on remixes and building a sound library. Most recently his composition »Concrete Leaves« was selected by Bruce LaBruce for his melancholy gay zombie movie »Otto; or, up with dead people«.

Worked with Patrick Pulsinger, Patrick Wolf, Carl McIntosh (Loose Ends), Pamelia Kurstin, Hilary Jeffery, Franz Hautzinger, Todd Simon, Toby Laing (Fat Freddys Drop), Dimlite, Flying Lotus, Wolfgang "Fadi" Dorninger, August Engkilde, Andreya Triana, Gerald Votava, Thomas Jarmer (Garish), Matthias Kertal (Mika), Tibcurl, Barca Barxant (Silicone Pumpgun), Oliver Hangl, Ellen Muhr (A Bunny Situation), Mike Honeycutt, Gerhard Daurer, Roman Gerold.

Played at Sónar/Barcelona, Horse Bazaar/Melbourne, Honkytonks/Melbourne, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Tuned City Festival/Berlin, Ars Electronica Festival, Schmiede Hallein, Basics Festival, Temp~ Festival, ORF Radiokulturhaus/Vienna, Soho Ottakring/Vienna, Icke Micke/Planetarium, Flex/Vienna, Fluc/Vienna, Rhiz/Vienna, Das Veilchen/Graz, Arge Nonntal/Salzburg, Jazzit/Salzburg.

Oh yeah and I'm member of MeTrue , the sexiest boyband ever!

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Member Since: 5/27/2006
Band Website: wald-entertainment.com
Band Members: Richard Eigner & Roman Gerold, a piano, drums & percussion, some old and some new electronics.
Sounds Like: put your ears to a telescope!
Record Label: Karaoke Kalk / Wald Entertainment
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ars Electronica 08 Animation Festival Trailer

Ars Electronica Animation Festival 08 Trailer from Richard Eigner on Vimeo.I was asked to score this years edition of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival trailer. It's quite different to ...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:25:00 PST

FM4 Soundsystem Summermix

A new mix - this time for Austrias best radiostation FM4!! They asked for short summermixes. Gently click the Mix!Playlist:Kiln - Airplaneshadows - GhostlyPopulous - Clap Like Breez - Morr MusicYo L...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:53:00 PST

Richard Eigners Headphone Highlights

I was asked to do a mix for the series "Headphone Highlights" from RBMA Radio. It containes some soon to be released stuff, well hidden musical treasures (check out Cleptoclectics, folks!!) and person...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:21:00 PST

Woeishi Lean / Richard Eigner - Vertigo

Ladies and gentleman, fasten your seatbelts! Finally a great collaboration between visual artist Woeishi Lean and Richard Eigner is online. Watch the short web-version of Vertigo in the Vime...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:12:00 PST

August Engkilde - Kaotic Brain / Beautiful Noise out now!

August Engkilde's fine new album is released on his new label brumtone. I´m very proud that I could contribute some drumming to this lovely record! As de:bug puts it: '"A framework of well crafted gro...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:45:00 PST

Christmas Mix Download

Ladies and gentleman. Christmas is coming nearer, so it´s time for a little present. A snowy mixtape for your personal pleasure. Right click for download!Playlist:Misel Quitno - We Are Both Waiting - ...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:02:00 PST

"Concrete Leaves" featured in Bruce LaBruces gay zombie movie "Otto; Or, Up With Dead People"

I´m  happy to announce that candian artist and director Bruce LaBruce will use my composition "Concrete Leaves" in his new melancholy gay zombie movie "Otto; Or, Up With Dead People". The film is...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:41:00 PST

Richard Eigner - Denoising Noise Music

Wald 01. Richard Eigner - Denoising Noise Music Wald 01. documents an early attempt at using denoising-techniques in a creative and compositional manner. Instead of utilising noise-reduction-algorith...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:29:00 PST

RBMA Infosession Linz 2007

Live:Cristian Vogel (Mute / Station 55)Patrick Pulsinger (Disko B/Cheap) vs. Daurer/Eigner/Gerold (Wald) DJ:Martin Klein (Contrust Music) 16:00 RBMA Infosession Cristian Vogel gets interviewed...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:48:00 PST

La Boum De Luxe Mix Download

For yesternights FM4 La Boum De Luxe radioshow I compiled a tender mixtape consisting of music discovered during the RBMA time in Melbourne, some alltime favourites and last but not least tracks ...
Posted by Richard Eigner on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:43:00 PST