Richard Eigner is a composer, sound artist, producer and drummer residing in Vienna and Linz, Austria. In his music he is crossing the borders of »experimental acoustic music«, »minimalism« and »electronica« with a focus on the symbiotic use of acoustic elements and electronically produced and processed sounds. Strenuous with numerous sonorous projects he is kept busy with his playful musical project Ritornell, the setup of Denoising installations or drumming for the likes of Patrick Wolf, Flying Lotus, Dimlite and Patrick Pulsinger. His compositions were used by Robert Seidel for his projection and paper sculpture »Chiral« at MOCA Taipei or by canadian director Bruce LaBruce for his melancholy zombie movie »Otto; Or, Up With Dead People«.

Richard plays Murat Diril cymbals

Curriculum Vitae
Born 20/03/1983 in Linz, Austria
since winter semester 2019 university lecturer at University of Applied Arts Vienna, TransArts
2008 - 2011 Doctorate studies of Philosophy, University of Art and Industrial Design Linz and University of Applied Arts Vienna
2006 - 2008 Studies of Mediacultures & Arttheory, at University of Art and Industrial Design
2005 - 2007 Studies of Music- and Mediatechnologies at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz with Adelhard Roidinger and Karlheinz Essl
2002 - 2006 Studies of Multi Media Art at University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Major Audio Art / Minor Animation

Participant of AKG Scholarship Of Sound 2011 in Berlin
Participant of Red Bull Music Academy 2006 in Melbourne

Internships
Feb 2007 Recording assistant at Feedback Studio for Japanese band Quruli
Jul - Dec 2005 Patrick Pulsinger/Feedback Studios Vienna
Aug 2004 Brucknerhaus Linz
Aug 2002 Ars Electronica Futurelab Linz

Awards & Scholarships
2018 Anton Bruckner Stipendium
2017 BKA Staatsstipendium für Komposition
2014 Amadeus Austrian Music Award "Best Engineered Album" 2014 for Ritornell »Aquarium Eyes«, second place
2014 Crossing Europe Creative Region Music Video Audience Award
2013 Kunstförderstipendium der Stadt Linz für Musik und Darstellende Kunst
2013 bm:ukk STARTStipendium für Musik
2013 Atmosphären composition award by ZKM | Institut für Musik und Akustik & Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2012 Film Forum Linz Award. Category Image Film for »Cards of Change«
2011 Voixtronik Award. Category: Instrumental
2011 bm:ukk composition work scholarship
2010 Fohn Scholarship
2009 Research Scholarship of the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz
2008 Upper Austrian Talent Promotion Price for composition
2008 Project Scholarship of the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz
2005 »Elektronikland« Award of the state Salzburg. Category: »Experimental Electronics«

Residencies
DNA Semmering, Villa Waldheimat (July 2022)
Copper Leg Residency, Vaskjala, Estonia (December 2019)
Sporobole Centre En Art Actuel, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada (September & October 2018)
Nationalparks Austria Medienstipendium 2018, Hüpflinger Alm, Gesäuse, Austria (August 2018)
4DSOUND x SVS Records Creative Lab, Spatial Sound Institute, Budapest (August 2016)
Villa Stonborough-Wittgenstein, Gmunden, Austria (September 2015)
Teehaus der Österreichischen Residenz, Teheran, Iran (August 2015)
Active Crossover Mooste, Estonia (April 2015)
Sound Development City 2014. Riga, Pärnu, Helsinki (2014)

Composition and/or sound design for theatre and music theatre

Faust, Theater und Oper Heidelberg, Director: Philipp Preuss, 2018
Catarsi, Münchner Opernfestspiele der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Direction: Musiktheaterkollektiv Agora, 2017
Kasimir & Karoline, Volkstheater Wien, Director: Philipp Preuss, 2017
Ulysse Exp. No1, BCV Concert Hall Lausanne, Direction: In The Lab Theatre Company, 2015
Creation of Uncanny Matter, Figurentheater Lilarum Wien, composition with Martin Riedler, Director: Jan Jedenak, 2012

Exhibitions (selection)
Swiss Moquito Sound Installation at Sonic Territories Festival, Seestadt Wien (2022)
In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus, Angewandte Festival, Student Exhibition (2021) Artistic Direction
Denoising Installation at Sonorities Festival, Belfast (2022)
Ueberleben, Schlosspark Schloss Eckartsau, Student Exhibition (2021) Artistic Direction
Soundparcours at Sonic Territories Festival, Seestadt Wien (2021) Artistic Direction
Pflanzenklaenge, Botanischer Garten der Universität Wien, Student exhibition (2020)
Noise/Silence, Villa Schapira, Vienna, Student exhibition (2020) Artistic Direction
Stille Nacht ASLSP (6 channel sound installation) at Silent AIR Werkschau. Stille Nacht Museum Hallein (2018)
Anotações Sonoras: Espaço, Pausa, Repetição group exhibition at oMuseu - Faculdade de Belas Artes Universidade do Porto (2018)
2-3. with Sophia Roma Weyringer at Me Myself And The Possibility Of You group exhibition. Westwerk Hamburg (2018)
Königin - eine Quadrofonie. Three part sound installation for Sinnesrausch. Alice Verdrehte Welt. OK Linz (2017)
Denoising Field Recordings at Charivaria group exhibition. CentroCentro Madrid (2017)
Denoising Installation. [H:UMMMM]. Wellnessoase Hummelhof (2016)
Ausnahmezustand /w Maximilian Walch at Galerie Forum Wels (2015)
Konzentration. Groupshow at Galerie Forum Wels (2014)
Halbmond Situation #1. Der Schall bewegt den Raum. Kunstraum Suburbia, Leonding (2014)
Denoising Installation. Noise In And As Music Symposium. Centre for Research in New Music, University of Huddersfield (2013)
Soundpassagen. LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz (2013)
Denoising Noise Non-ference, Qubit's »Noise Non-ference«. Clemente Soto Vélez, New York (2013)
Denoising Road Bangor Gwynedd, INTER/Actions Symposium. Bangor University School of Music (2012)
Denoising Installation. Interface II. Werkstatt für Sound-Art. FFT Düsseldorf (2012)
Musicbox (multichannel version). Soundscapes Special Edition. Sonorous Horreum. Kapu Linz (2011)
Denoising Installation. Centro Per L'Arte Contemporanea Firenze (2011)
Denoising Lutherse Burgwal. TodaysArt Festival Den Haag (2010)
Karin Fisslthaler / Richard Eigner - Expedition Sonar. LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz (2010)

Concerts (selection)
Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival, Österreichisches Kulturforum Teheran, Sónar Festival Barcelona, Alt Art Space Istanbul, RBMA Melbourne, Beirut Art Center, Serralves Museum Porto, Huuto Gallery Helsinki, Disainiöö Festival Tallinn, Kanepes Riga, Maintenant Festival Rennes, Wee Festival Poitiers, Umbo Zürich, Bad Bonn Düdingen, Stadio Vevey, Kaffee Kind Luzern, TodaysArt Festival Den Haag, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Störung Festival Barcelona, Wundergrund Festival Copenhagen, Tuned City Festival Berlin, Myzel Munich, digitalanalog Festival Munich, Burgtheater Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz, Treffpunkt Neue Musik ORF Landesstudio Linz, Ars Electronica Festival Linz, Sound:Frame Festival Vienna, Elevate Festival Graz, FM4 Signs & Signals, ORF Radiokulturhaus Vienna, etc.

Concerts, Recordings, Collaborations with (selection)
Flying Lotus, Dimlite, Patrick Wolf, James Zoo, Dorian Concept, Flako, Bodo Hell, Flip Phillipp, Jon Sass, Mira Lu Kovacs, Werner Zangerle, Lukas Lauermann, Norbert Trawöger, Patrick Pulsinger, Lalá Vocalensemble, Alireza Mollahosseini, Andreya Triana, Pamelia Kurstin, Leafcutter John, Shigeto, Ilpo Väisänen, Didi Bruckmayr, Franz Hautzinger, Sharif Sehnaoui, Charbel Haber, Osman Arabi, Wolfgang Fuchs, Scrambled Eggs, Rabih Beaini (Morphosis), Pomassl, Yuri Landman, Wolfgang »Fadi« Dorninger, Heidelore Schauer, August Engkilde, Philippe Petit, Hilary Jeffery, Todd Simon, Shit & Shine, Thomas Jarmer, Toby Laing (Fat Freddys Drop), Gerald Votava, Soia