Altmusic and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery are very proud to present Chris Watson, for a live multichannel diffusion mix of the pieces 'Midnight at the Oasis' and 'Oceanus pacificus'.

Chris Watson is a heavyweight in the avante garde world for his work with field recordings. A founding member of late '70s techno and synth-pop innovators Cabaret Voltaire and, later, ambient-industrial fusioners the Hafler Trio. In something of an odd switch, Watson left the music industry behind in 1985 to work as a sound recordist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He quickly branched out into production for film and television and has since handled field recording for a number of nature programs and documentaries, including David Attenborough's "The Life of Birds" which won him a BAFTA for best factual sound in 1998.
In 1996, after collecting hundreds of hours of location recordings from less accessible regions of the world, Watson returned to music production, releasing his first-ever solo album "Stepping into the Dark", on the Touch label. Actually a compilation of recordings of natural settings spanning from Inverness to Kenya to Venezuela to Cumbria, the release was lauded internationally and received an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. His second album "Outside the Circle of Fire" was released in 1998 and "Weather Report" from 2003 was listed amongst the Guardian newspaper's "1000 albums to listen to before you die".
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"

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PSN Electronic: Ten Years of Bad Sleep

PSN Electronic (Peter Stapleton, Nathan Thompson and Susan Ballard) explore the alchemical process of turning electricity into sound. Each of their performances is formed through a system of constraint. In this performance the group will improvise with a collection of faulty CDs and processed electronics. The work will make audible the sounds of the technologies used as well as the dislocated messages they transmit, sculpting them into a work that explores sound through electronic and analogue corruption. For this, PSN Electronic will use a collection of CDs originating from a faulty pressing of a Sleep album released in 1999. These CDs will be further damaged making audible the cut and paste aesthetic of packeted information. The piece will last around 40 min.

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Chris Watson
PSN Electronic

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Mezzanine

8th October

8pm (Sharp!)

$10, $8 with R1 card, student, etc.