Chris Watson
Musician
Altmusic is very proud to present Chris Watson...Tour With Chris Watson Altmusic is very proud to present Chris Watson. Chris Watson is a heavyweight in the avante garde world for his work with field recordings. A founding member of late '70s techno and synth-pop innovators Cabaret... In this article: Chris Watson, David Attenborough, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Hafler Trio, Cabaret Voltaire, Cumbria, Christchurch, Art Gallery, and Inverness |
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Wikipedia | August 20, 2009
2x45
...Area in 1990. The title comes from its original format - two 45 RPM 12" discs. This was the last studio album by the band to feature Chris Watson as a member. Sides A & B were recorded at Western Works, Sheffield, October 1981. Sides C &...
In this article: 2x45, Cabaret Voltaire, and Sheffield
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Red Mecca
...is an album by the Industrial /Post-punk band Cabaret Voltaire . Released in 1981 on Rough Trade Records (ROUGH 27), it was their final album before the departure of Chris Watson. It reached No.1 on the UK Independent chart in September 1981
In this article: Red Mecca, Cabaret Voltaire, Post-punk, Rough Trade Records, Three Mantras, Richard H Kirk, Stephen Mallinder, and Sheffield
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Hafler Trio
...Flesh. There have been numerous members and collaborators alongside Andrew M. McKenzie, including Cabaret Voltaire co-founder Chris Watson , the (semi) fictitious Dr. Edward Moolenbeek, Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound, Adi Newton of...
In this article: Hafler Trio, Nurse with Wound, Jonsi Birgisson, Brion Gysin, David Tibet, Steven Stapleton, Autechre, and Sigur Ros
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Cabaret Voltaire (band)
...major record label support, releasing Hai!, a live album recorded in Japan, in 1982. In 1983, coinciding with the departure of Watson (who went on to found The Hafler Trio with Andrew M. McKenzie before becoming a BBC sound engineer and...
In this article: Cabaret Voltaire, Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, Sheffield, The Crackdown, Bourgeoisie, Rough Trade Records, Sandoz, and Inpress
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The Australian | February 22, 2009
Aural sex and the sounds of violence
...that environment," he says gleefully. "It's not just a smiley landscape; it's visceral." Watson is a cheerful, lanky Englishman with few pretensions. He grew up in Sheffield, dabbling seriously in electronic music as a member of Cabaret...
In this article: Edvard Grieg, Cabaret Voltaire, Orchestration, Killer Whale, Zebra, Unemployment, Perth International Arts Festival, Academy Award, and Leeds College of Music
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Guardian Unlimited | March 12, 2009
Twitchin' the night away
...comes with seeing an unbelievable band for the first time. Chris Watson, formerly of the avant-garde Sheffield electro-pop group Cabaret Voltaire, is someone who bridges the two realms. He's long since moved away from music to become a...
In this article: Guy Garvey, Jimi Goodwin, Doves, Elbow, Edwyn Collins, British Sea Power, and Slavonian Grebe
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Guardian Unlimited | July 03, 2008
Deep funk
...from all over the world. These were whittled down to two hours of sound. "In the end, I got mostly water sounds," he says, although Chris Watson, a sound recordist who has worked for David Attenborough and was in Cabaret Voltaire in the...
In this article: Shock, IPod, David Attenborough, Cabaret Voltaire, UK, and London
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Chris Watson is a musician and sound recordist specialising in natural history. His work as a sound wildlife sound recordist includes both work for television documentaries and experimental musical collaborations.
Christopher Richard Watson was born in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School and Stannington College (now part of Sheffield College). He was a founding member of two influential experimental music groups, Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio.
His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television.
He has released three solo albums of field recordings: Outside the Circle of Fire, Stepping into the Dark (which won an Award of Distinction at the 2000 Prix ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria), and Weather Report. He has also released a variety of works in collaboration with other artists, including Star Switch On, a collaboration with Mika Vainio of Pan Sonic, Philip Jeck, Hazard, Fennesz, AER, and Biosphere. In 2007 he released Storm with BJNilsen. All of these recordings were released on Touch.
His television work includes Bill Oddie Back in the USA.
In 2006 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Technology degree by the University of the West of England "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to sound recording technology, especially in the field of natural history and documentary location sound".
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