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Hi - I know many people don't like to be spammed. Me too! So I wanted you to know if I requested you as an add I checked out your profile and really liked what I saw. Either your work, pictures or what you had to say on your profile caught my interest and struck my fancy.
Thought you might be interested in my work and would consider it an honor to have you as a friend.
Ambient electronica is an underground music. It has a history that goes back over a hundred and twenty years, since the development of the first electronic instruments in 1867. See http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/ for more details. Currently it's a niche genre and part of my mission here on myspace is to let folks know about it. I'm quite fascinated by all the diversity and amazing work out here on Myspace and I consider friends as portals of my extended interests. In other words I only add folks I really like.
I invite you to please take a moment read my profile, listen to my music and check out my pictures. If you enjoyed my profile as much as I enjoyed yours please add me.
In case you were wondering, I'm the real deal, an artist trying to make a living; just little ole me and my bit of etherspace out here.
Here to chat, learn, experience and expand my horizons.
Best regards - Christopher Short
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About Me:
Christopher Short is a sound painter, guitarist, composer, sound designer and recording engineer. I call my style of guitar playing "Guitartronics", a nod to Robert Fripp and appropriate I think because it isn't a traditional way of playing guitar. Guitartronics is the 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.
My interest in making music starts with a fascination of sounds. "From my earliest memories there are sounds I can still vividly remember. And ones as a child I used to be hysterically afraid of."
Above all I consider myself painter using air as my canvas and sound as my palette to create and activate the interior space. My intent is to make music that invokes contemplation, peace, and relaxation.
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:
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.
Musicians admired:
Brian Eno, Ravi Shankar, Tom Waits, Marc Ribot, David Torn, Robert Fripp, Mile Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Pharoh Sanders, Matmos, Bjork, David Sylvian, Djivan Gasparyan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Konono No. 1, Steve Roach, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Santana to name a few.
Atmospheric Music - Guitartronics
"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.
the power of thought. suggestive to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that they themselves are part-makers of themselves,in direct relation with the source of life,by virtue of the thoughts they choose and encourage ; that mind is the master weaver,both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and they may have previously woven in ignorance and pain. they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness - J. Allen
