Биография Chris Watson

Бывший участник таких коллективов как Cabaret Voltaire и раннего The Hafler Trio. Помимо собственных музыкальных экспериментов, Крис Уотсон известен как звукооператор, использующий инновационные технологии в своих работах для телевизионных и радио- передач о природе, в частности, для ряда передач о Галапагосских островах для BBC

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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.

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.

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