Chris Watson (musician)

Chris Watson (musician)
Chris Watson

Watson speaking at the 2009 WIRED Lab.
Background information
Born Sheffield, England
Genres Electronic, field recordings
Instruments Multi-instrumentalist
Labels Rough Trade
Associated acts Cabaret Voltaire

Christopher Richard Watson is a Sheffield-born musician and sound recordist specialising in natural history. He was a founding member of the musical group Cabaret Voltaire, and Watson's work as a wildlife sound recordist has covered television documentaries and experimental musical collaborations.

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Music

Watson was a founding member of two influential experimental music groups, Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio.[1]

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, and in 2011 "Cross-Pollination" and "El Tren Fantasma". All of these recordings were released on Touch.

The Weather Report album from 2003 was named as one of the thousand albums you should hear before you die in The Guardian.

Sound recording

His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television. His television work includes Bill Oddie Back in the USA and Springwatch.

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".

In 2010 he devised an art project at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital, using sound recordings made by children to calm other young patients as they received injections and other treatments.[2][3]

Radio programmes

Watson has made and been featured in a number of BBC radio programmes:

The Reed Bed
Series of five, fifteen-minute radio programmes, broadcast on Radio Four from 19–23 March 2007.
A Guide to Garden Birds
Series of five, fifteen-minute radio programmes, broadcast weekly on Radio Four from 22 May 2007
A Guide to Farmland Birds
Series of five, fifteen-minute radio programmes, broadcast weekly on Radio Four from 22 August 2011

Personal life

Watson attended Rowlinson School and Stannington College (now part of Sheffield College), both in Sheffield. He is married to Maggie, who appeared momentarily on-screen with him in episode 3 of Autumnwatch, 2010.[4]

Album discography

Solo

  • Stepping into the Dark (1996, Touch (UK) Touch Music)
  • Outside the Circle of Fire (1998, Touch (UK) Touch Music)
  • Weather Report (Chris Watson album) (2003, Touch (UK) Touch Music)
  • Cima Verde (2008, Fondazione Edmund Mach and LoL Productions)
  • Cross-Pollination (Chris Watson + Marcus Davidson album) (2011, Touch (UK) Touch Music)
  • El Tren Fantasma (Chris Watson album) (2011, Touch (UK) Touch Music)

Collaborations

References

  1. ^ Cooper, Sean. "Biography: Chris Watson". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p136405. Retrieved 3 May 2010. 
  2. ^ Moss, Stephen (24 August 2010). "Birdsong: the cure for all ills?". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/24/birdsong-calming-young-hospital-patients. Retrieved 25 August 2010. 
  3. ^ "Imagine Appeal - Alder Hey Arts". http://www.imagineappeal.com/about/art.asp. Retrieved 25 August 2010. 
  4. ^ Autumn watch 2010, episode 3

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