FURT is the electronic composition/performance duo formed by Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer in London in 1986. FURT’s dense and intricate musical forms are produced at every level by an interpenetration between free improvisation and systematic composition, and use primarily concrete (sampled/processed) materials. This activity is concerned above all with allying the physicality and expressivity of sound-structures to FURT’s vision - but also with deriving methods of musical production from the nature of the (electronic) medium itself. Since 2003 FURT has also been part of the Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble, and since 2005 part of its own electroacoustic octet fORCH.
LATEST CD: "sense" (72'15") - consisting of "Uranus" (studio composition) and "curtains" (recorded live in Cork, January 2009). Psi Records 09.08 - available September 2009
filmed by Helen Petts at the Vortex Jazz Club, London, 16 November 2008
