Rupert Chappelle,
Art Harrison on occassion http://home.att.net/~theremin1
Influences
dick hyman, silver apples, stockhausen, brian eno, morton subotnik, kraftwerk, fad gadget, metal urbain, boulez, nono, ligeti, xenakis, berio, luening, ussachevsky, dock boggs, arthur brown's kingdom come, cluster, neu, can, tangerine dream, seventh wave, suicide, hawkwind, gary numan, early music quartet, steeleye span, js bach, sibelius, telemann and the troubadors of the 12th and 13th centuries.
Sounds Like
electro pop, synthorch, electrograss, hardwave, avant-garde and edge.
About You
Rupert Chappelle and Art Harrison - Gimme Good Lovin'
Rupert Chappelle Etidorhpa
Rupert Chappelle Show - A Little Theremin Music (53 minutes)
Rupert Chappelle Show - More Theremin Music (46 minutes)
Rupert Chappelle Show - A Little More Theremin Music (53 minutes)
Electrograss and Spacepop
The Wabash Cannonball
What I Think - with Art Harrison on theremin at Caribou Coffee's open mic in Olney Md.
Jackrabbiting the Pyramid Complex I was trying to make a really difficult listening piece of avant-garde music but this one seems to be popular. i just don't know what to make of it. so many mixed feelings . . .
No Way Out but In - psychedelia from apple's motion. synth and theremin.
soundtrack to a video of juan munoz's "last conversation piece"
Rupert and Art at the Pond Art Farm 2001
I Don't Know About You Anymore - anyone got a tissue?
Take Me Down to the River
Southern Comfort - Rupert Chappelle and Arthur Harrison
Takoma Park Planetarium
Route 80 from Selma to Montgomery Alabama
"Fantasy for Cybernetic Piano and Theremin"
Spin Cycle - theremin loops and FCP spins, keys, and translations.
rupert - started out playing medieval and renassiance music and then bought a synthesizer and started doing electronic music after hearing phaedra, aqua, picture music and autobahn. I currently do pop/rock, avant-garde, electronica/techno (old school), electropunk, old-timey and medieval music using one synthesizer, a theremin and voice.
favorite living "name" artists are eno, bjork and tori amos. i don’t sound like any of them.
my favorite foods are thai, indian, ethiopean, vietnamese and southern american. my favorite color is teal.
first dc metro area artist to perform punk, new wave, alt/grunge and electonica in the metro dc area.
invented dynamic minimalism music style using first a c-64 and later atari st computers merging 12 tone compositional technique with midi sequencing and a process that was the inverse of john cage’s.
first to stream full songs and albums on the web without commercial consideration with about 6 hours of music at irupert internet radio, the first prototyped internet radio site in 1995-1996, with myhouse communications - now defunct. back then, people would put up a minute’s worth of a song and then actually expect you to BUY it. i gave it away.
first to protoype online video streams music programs as a beta project - irupert internet video - now defunct. 4 programs of DC Metro area music each about an hour long.
member of the mythical yippies.
does anyone else play keyboard, theremin and sing at the same time? if not, i’m it, or at least i think i was the first.
WHAT THE CRITCS SAY:
"Rupert, you are absolutely obnoxious. Why don’t you spend the time you waste posting irrelevant, insulting and bandwitdth-eating comments on this forum getting some much needed theremin practice, or better still destroy your infernal contraption so that none of us ever have to listen to your abominable compositions ever again.
Your playing is, quite frankly, absolutely diabolical. Claiming the defense of ’avant-garde’ or experimentalism is futile. Your music is structureless, poorly generated and abysmally conceived. I would actually question whether it even deserves the name ’music’ at all.
Please leave. And get a haircut."
Charlie Draper - 16 year old theremin whiz - you should have heard what he said to Simon Cowell!!!
That's a really cool clip of you and Art playing at the Art Farm. I never made it to any of those festivals. If you're playing out anywhere, keep me posted, OK? Congrats on becoming a grandad!
Thanks for adding me Rupert,Been a fan of yours since the days of the Key Theatre midnight shows you used to play!Like the Wonderbread song! Lets get together and make some Hawkwind type music!
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You list Dick Hyman as an influence. He is one of the greats -- I have "The Electric Eclectics", "Age of Electronicus", and "Concerto Electro" -- lots of fine music.
Hey, visit Kansas City sometime... great BBQ and great Thai food, too.
