Richard Garrett: Biography    The Weathersongs Project is the brainchild of English composer, Richard Garrett. Richard was born in London, UK in 1957 and has been writing music and playing guitar since he was sixteen.   Richard is interested in a wide variety of music. He has played in rock and jazz bands; accompanied poets; and played in the pit for pantomime. For several years, he studied singing, Indian Rag and Cosmic Theatre with French composer/ performer Gilles Petit and, as a student at the Welsh Jazz Summer School, he has worked with some of the UK’s premier contemporary musicians.   Richard has recorded six albums to date. He has also worked with computers as a programmer, teacher and journalist.   In 1996, Richard started working with Koan Pro, a sophisticated generative music program for the PC. Using this software, he produced a number of works for the World Wide Web. Several of these pieces he then recorded, edited and embellished with improvisation to produce the album, Robot Sculpture. This album served to unite Richard's technological and instrumental approaches to music at a powerful new level. Some of the pieces used to create Robot Sculpture, along with works by Brian Eno and others, formed part of “Dark Symphony”, a mammoth five-day outdoor exhibit at the Ars Electronica Festival 2003 in Linz, Austria .   In 2003 Richard attended a MAX/MSP course at Goldsmiths College, London; and, in 2004, spent three weeks at the 2nd annual Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music studying with David Cope at the University of California, Santa Cruz.   Richard lives in an isolated Welsh farmhouse, halfway between the mountains of Snowdonia and the sea, with his wife, Heather and son, Sean. There, he writes music and distributes his albums through Sunday Dance Music.   Sunday Dance Music website.