Alt­mu­sic is proud to present Chris Wat­son, a found­ing mem­ber of influ­en­tial exper­i­men­tal music groups Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio.

Wat­son is now one of the world’s lead­ing sound recordists spe­cial­is­ing in cap­tur­ing the sounds of wildlife and nat­ur­al phe­nom­e­na, and he cur­rent­ly records for and makes pro­grammes for BBC Radio 4’s Nat­ur­al His­to­ry Unit.

In 2006 Wat­son was award­ed an hon­orary Doc­tor of Tech­nol­o­gy 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.”

Chris Wat­son puts his micro­phone where you can’t put your ears.

In a per­for­mance you might hear the unearth­ly groan­ing of an Ice­landic glac­i­er or the voic­es and rhythms of the Hum­boldt cur­rent around the Gala­pa­gos Islands.

Tomor­row night, you will expe­ri­ence a Live Soundmap of Red Rocks as record­ed by Wat­son and a team of local recordists.

Chris Wat­son at the Adam Art Gallery
Sat­ur­day 10th Octo­ber at 8 pm, $10
Work­shop at Fred’s at 4 pm, ear­li­er the same after­noon

For more infor­ma­tion about Chris Wat­son’s exten­sive audio career: ChrisWatson.net