Richard Aicher is an interdisciplinary media artist living in Karlsfeld, near Munich - Germany.

He has been active as a performer, improviser and composer of electronic and computer based music and as a freelance journalist and book author about music software and electronic music instruments.

At the age of 7 he started learning guitar and played as guitarrist in many pop and rock bands in the beginning of the 70s in Munich area. He studied Chemistry at the LMU in munich, germany and built in this time as an auto didact several synthesizers and electronic music instruments.

1976 he founded together with Andreas Merz the band "Weltklang Electronic Music (http://www.weltklang-music.de)" and did lots of electronic music live concerts in germany still today.

In the beginning of the 80s he started to write articles about electronic music instruments, music software and MIDI. In the following years Richard Aicher wrote about 300 articles for nearly all important computer and music magazines in germany. 1985 he wrote his first book "Da steckt Musik drin" and two years later his second book "MIDI Praxisbuch". This book became the MIDI Bible in all germany speaking countries in this year and over 15.000 pieces get sold.

As one of the most famous German MIDI-Experts Richard Aicher worked in the following years 1985-1990 as a freelancer in all areas of music related business, consulting, public demonstrations, workshops for many facturers like Akai Professional Equipment and Roland Electronic Musical Instruments, public organizations and several music shops in Germany. He lectured about MIDI and "How to make music with computers and electronic instruments" at public highschool Munich, SAE (School of Audio Enginiering) and Tonmeisterschule.

Since 1990, his work has been concentrated more and more in the field of graphic design and digital photo design, sound installations and composing, improvising and performing of (experimental) computer based music.

for more info about actual events and about 700 pics please visit my web site.

Artist Highlights

• ArtWanted.com Gallery:    Photography
• Proficient Software:   Adobe Photoshop