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Christopher Short is a sound painter, guitarist, composer, sound designer and recording engineer. Calling his style of guitar playing "Guitartronics", as a nod to Robert Fripp and Fripp’s work in the area of looping guitar. Guitartronics goes beyond traditional guitar playing. Guitartronics is a process of putting an electric guitar through various of signal processing devices, (usually a lot of them) including looping delays which extend the normal range of the instrument and can cause it to take on unrecognizable qualities. Qualities that are very un-guitar like. Loops are interesting too because a single performer can sound like an orchestra through multiple layers of sound. And performance with looping delays is an improvisational form of music. Each performance yielding different results.
Short works in the Ambient Electronica music genre. Considered currently as an underground music, it has a history that goes back over a hundred and twenty years, with the development of the first electronic instruments in 1867. (See http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/ for more details) Musical forms found in Ambient music has roots in musical traditions going back to Claude Debussy's impressionist music, Erik Satie's "Furniture Music" and often employs ethnomusicology by mixing in world music and music of a spiritual or transcendental nature. Commercially it's a niche genre that enjoys vibrant development by many segments of the music industry including currently working musicians in the field. Our focus here on myspace is to let folks know about this wonderful music.
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About Christopher G. Short
With an fascination for sounds, Short creates from both his earliest memories of noises he heard as a child growing up in tornado alley and from his great love of nature. Thunder rumbling over vast expanses of skies and plains in Tornado Alley where he spent the first seven years of his life., the loud and surprising blasts of the civil defense siren, a mournful cry circling around and around warning of the oncoming storm and tornado’s. Crickets and Cicada’s chirping in the summer heat, the sound of his own heartbeat in his ears as he pressed it hard down into the pillow.
Considering himself as a sonic painter using air as my canvas and sound as a means to create atmosphere and activate the interior space.
As a Sound Developer of interactive audio loops, I'll use extreme or severe electronic processing to stretch audio (any audio, not just guitar) out of it's normal context to create sonic atmospheres and textural ear candy for use in various software platforms. This work is commercially available through Sony Media Software and M-Audio. I view the use of this work by others as collaborations in absentia.
Working for the Sony Media Software line of products since it was Sonic Foundry. Christopher Short - Ma Ja Le' has developed and been involved since 1999 in the production for several Sony products including Cinescore, MIDI instruments and ACID loop libraries. The Ma Ja Le loop library "Saturn & Elsewhere" received many excellent reviews including a recent review in Recording Magazine.
Most recently Christopher was involved in creating backgrounds with Jeff Rona for the "Gathering" TV program which aired October 13th & 14th 2007. Also busy creating Themes for expanding Sony's Cinescore program and editing and compiling of several loop libraries. Ma Ja Le' have also developed loops for M-Audio and others.
As a Guitarist / Composer:
He is also one of the founding members of the Tribal Ambient team Ma Ja Le' with Paul Vnuk Jr. their music has been eloquently labeled by some as, Symphonic Tribal Minimalism. You can check out more info on Ma Ja Le here on myspace at www.myspace.com/majale39
Albums include:
"Dreams In The Orchards Of Saturn" released on A.J. & Grey April 1995
"Imaginaruim" (with Vir Unis & produced by Steve Roach) released on Mirage April 1998
"Seed" (with James Johnson) released on Hypnos December 2001
Solo Works :
Duende - Christopher Short
The Garden - Christopher Short
Collaborations:
Butterfly Chamber – James Johnson
Aquaculture - James Johnson - Vir Unis - Christopher Short
Yellow House - Vir Unis - Christopher Short
Arrangement / Production / Engineering:
Paul Vnuk Jr. - Silence Speaks in Shadows - 1999
Engineering and arrangements on many projects include Sony's Cinescore Theme packs, Paul Vnuk Jr's Silence Speaks In Shadows CD which Bill Binkleman from Wind & Wire called one of the "Top 50 Ambient Releases of all time" and Steve Koening from Jazz Weekly said was "Quite Beautiful", and session work for many other clients.
For more detailed info on CDs and reveiws see:
www.majale.com
www.hypnos.com
For Sessions and Collaborations go here indabamusic.com:
Influences:
Traditional World music, Jazz, Electric Blues, Old Timey Bluegrass, Music Concrete, Baroque, Contemporary Classical and Ambient ala Eno & Roach.
Other Electronic / Ambient Musicians:
Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Steve Roach Vidna Obmana, Robert Rich, Vir Unis, James Johnson, Jeff Pearce (Guitarist - Indiana), Michael Stearns, Matmos, David Sylvian, David Torn, Bill Frissell
Other Ambient Guitarists: Robert Fripp, David Torn, Bill Frissell, Jeff Pearce
Ravi Shankar, Tom Waits, Marc Ribot, David Torn, Mile Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Pharoh Sanders, Bjork, Djivan Gasparyan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Konono No. 1, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Santana to name a few.
PINNACLE OF SOULULAR MASS AWARENESS As i slowly walked into the vast shoping mall complex, i pondered the epitomizing mass consciousness that summed up this particular amalgamant of humans. Looking at the eyes of the passer-bys,feeling what exuded there. speculating unconsciously what each person was going through, what they cared about, what their hopes were, some of them generating postive currents, driven by what drove them. others appearing lost or indifferent. After wandering across the bright concentration of stores and seeing so many faces, i reached a gravitated epiphanic pinnacle of the soulular mass awareness. its emotions, its experiences and conditions, its dreams and concerns. i floated out to the parking lot. of the 500 people i saw, all of them condensed into a singular face that represented the exact central essence of everyone there. it looks like this: (insert any picture here)
i watched christopher with bright green skin and silver umbrellid tearing down replicant franchise architecture,and installing a hallucinomorphic replacement with what will affect the hypnogogment of biological collective consciousness. this is the power of deliberate dreaming. you are either controlled,shaped by them, or you seize gracedeliberate unconscious dreams of beauty affect the mass consciousness. the individual's will is not limited to accepted factions. remember the choice to have a beautiful mind. we directly affect reality in desire,imagination and attitude. anyone shaped by persuasions of greedy indifferent spirit,becomes evident in selfish survivalist deception of fallen nature that leads to depersonalized bleakness and emptiness. to live for a principle of love and the sovereign source of all realities is unstifled,uncompromised by brainwashed beliefs that there is no choice in what
"Exhibit X," a collection of digital images selected from the past two years, may now be viewed at: www. flickr. com/photos/mikecrocker Any thoughts, comments, or criticisms would definitely be welcomed.
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