rick nichols
musician-producer-educator
Photo by Paul Berge
Described as “Peter Gabriel meets Joseph Campbell”, Rick Nichols entwines his world-music-making with his inspired world-vision, and forges a whole new approach to performance and education that is both inspiring and enlightening. His new project SYNCOPIA, is an innovative cutting-edge world-music program offered in a number of formats, and is designed to unleash people’s creative passion and open up interactive participation to creators and free-thinkers.
With over 30 years experience in music production and education, building recording studios, forming bands, offering workshops, producing music CDs, multimedia projects and live events, Nichols’ work reflects a consistent commitment to inspiring and connecting people for increased levels of personal expression and creative impact. Rick has recorded and produced hundreds of musicians from around the world in all styles of music for demos, record releases, radio shows, and soundtracks, while developing inspirational programs that promote personal growth and creative collaboration.
Photo by Jade Nichols
An award winning musician, producer and teacher, Rick Nichols has built his life around uplifting people through music and sound. Originally from the sea-side village of Padanarum, Massachusetts, now based between New York City and Milford, Pennsylvania, Nichols has been a musician, producer and inspiration to young and old for over 30 years. After graduating from Harvard College in 1986, Rick pursued a short career in architecture before shifting his focus back to music. Writing and producing since 1977, Nichols has performed in clubs and venues throughout the Northeast and abroad, and to date has released five albums of original self-produced material. In 1989, Nichols built several recording studios and began producing other musicians and artists in Boston, and later in New York City. He’s created artist networking groups, music recording workshops, and a music theater program for children which enabled them to record and produce their own CDs. Nichols has taught sound and music production in Boston at Emerson College and Massachusetts Communication College, and in New York at The Institute of Audio Research, SAE School of Music Production, and New York University. SYNCOPIA is the culmination of a long-developed vision to ignite creative expression, by distilling and weaving his varied experiences as a musician, producer and educator.
Photo by Jahmani Perry.
A 2008 Two-Disc Set Release: Synchrony-1
The product of a two year long voyage, Nichols’ 2008 two-disc album release Synchrony-1 is the result of a creative journey that began in audio school classrooms in Greenwich Village in 2003 and traveled some 5,500 miles in a converted shuttle-bus from Seatlle to Mount Shasta through Sedona and Hopi Land and back to Manhattan. Blending the sounds of more than 25 world musicians and over 20 field recordings, this innovative double-CD reflects a world harmony that crosses traditional musical boundaries. Disc-1 is a high-energy percussion-driven collection of world-rock songs, while Disc-2 is a meditative journey through real-world soundscapes and drone textures. For a unique listening experience, the two CD’s can be played together at the same time.
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