
Eric Richards's music invites listeners to carefully observe sounds in their environment and how imagination shapes the listening experience.
Composer Eric Richards explores the concept of temporal expansion and contraction in his music.
Richards's work is influenced by philosopher Gaston Bachelard's idea that imagination deforms perception and frees us from immediate images.
According to philosopher Gaston Bachelard, whose ideas influence Eric Richards, a true poetic image is a dynamic condition inseparable from perceptual experience, not an echo of the past.
Eric Smigel, who wrote the booklet text, is a Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music History and Musicology at San Diego State University.