FURT 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 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 DICTIONARY