FURT HOME PAGEFURT 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 fleeting vision - but also with deriving methods of musical production from the nature of the (electronic) medium itself.“Furt, in dicts. explained - ‘theft’, is a misprint in the later edd. of Tomkis’ Albumasar for ‘furie’.”OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARYMain works: OMNIVM, mice, sad fantasy, Plint, Volksmusik, implant, go WHERE?, ULTIMATUM, Failed Experiment, RIGOR, irregular, macro, angel, modern, Unstern, the insect class, Terminal, Johannes-Passion, Sink, homunculus, Hospital of the Soul, Appendix, The Flesh of Experience, allergic, intruder, bodies of water, disgusting the ones 1 the concert, byproducts, thinking of big numbers CDs: dead or alive (psi records), defekt (Matchless Recordings), angel (JdK), Live in Amsterdam 1994 (X-OR).Also Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Eleventh Hour (ECM Records) Collaborators: BARK!, BBC Radio 3, Adam Bohman, John Butcher, Rex Casswell, Richard Crow, Rhodri Davies, Karlheinz Essl, Friedrich Gauwerky, Harry Gilonis, Paul Lovens, Phillip Marks, Phil Minton, Wolfgang Mitterer, Evan Parker, Ensemble RESERVOIR, Kees Tazelaar, Mikel Toms, Ute Wassermann Key  Barrett words: United Music Publishers UMP Elision ensemble Daryl Buckley Carl Rosman BBC Symphony Orchestra BBCSO Arditti String Quartet Ian Pace Cikada Opening of the Mouth Ruin I open and close Unter Wasser negatives...one of the most blisteringly energetic and experimental partnerships over the past 20 years. TOM SERVICE, The Guardian The variety of material, and the variation of mood, texture, dynamics, density, and allusion, all speak to FURT’s mastery of the genre and the duo’s highly fertile imagination. JAMES HARLEY, Computer Music Journal 28:1Electronics are used neither as diversion nor effect but to soberly treat and transform sound materials, to voice solidarity with ghosts of the restless and disappointed.JULIAN COWLEY, The Wire ...the listener is transported into a sonic world that could come from another galaxy. Superbly crafted and incredibly inventive...ANDREW McFARLANE, www.bbc.co.uk...like some fantastic new improvised rock music, all hard-edges and astonishing timbres... models of velocity and structure. FURT contain the genuine promise of musical production beyond the pop-classical divide.BEN WATSON, The WireMORE INSIDE...