Richard Beaudoin is the architect of microtiming. Iconic recordings are transcribed in minute detail, then treated as palimpsests interwoven with original material. He has received commissions from the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Staatstheater Kassel, the President of Harvard University, Sound Icon and Boston Lyric Opera. He has composed works for Claire Chase, Roomful of Teeth, the Kreutzer and Chiara string quartets, Sound Icon, Mark Knoop, Marilyn Nonken, Constantine Finehouse, Wolfram Rieger, Serge Vuille, Carl Rosman, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Neil Heyde and Rohan de Saram.
His vocal music has been sung by Annette Dasch, Dashon Burton, Estelí Gomez, Joseph Kaiser, Annika Sophie Ritlewski, Frank Kelley and Kevin Burdette. Compositions performed at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, and New York's Weill Recital Hall. From 2008 to 2016, he taught composition at Harvard University and is now assistant professor of music at Dartmouth College.