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