Chris Watson at The Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich | 9th April 2008

Date: Wednesday 09.04.2008 19:00
Location: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich.
contact email fo reservations etc: info@cabaretvoltaire.ch / +41 43 268 57 20
website: http://www.cabaretvoltaire.ch
you can find an announcement in German here

Programme

1900 Chris Watson presents...

1945 Mike Harding Presents Touch

2030 Chris Watson Live

Chris Watson in The Radio Times | 25.03.08

Chris Watson in Lexus Car Magazine

New Projects & Current Activities | April 2008

Qwartz Awards, Paris 2008

Touch has entries in 12 nominations for the Qwartz Awards 2008 and will be appearing live for these awards. A special edition of Touch Tone 25 has been manufactured for this event, with the kind permission of the artists.

April 3rd: Black venue: Maison des Métallos, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Paris 75011 (Metro Couronne). Before Blixa Bargeld speech/performance:

Rosy Parlane | Fennesz

April 4th: Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione: 110 rue Amelot, Paris 75003 (Metro Filles du Calvaire). 1 hour after Blixa Bargeld, Max Mathews, Jean-Claude Risset and Beatriz Feyrrera [Qwartz d’Honneur attributions] from 23h to 1h30, with Radio France [France Musique] direct retransmission, Qwartz's official sponsor.

Chris Watson | Philip Jeck | BJNilsen

Free entrance

Chris Watson Live at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich April 9th

Broadcast nominates Chris Watson in Hot 100

Hot 100 Craft and Post

Chris has been named in Broadcast's 'Hot 100' hottest names currently working behind the scenes in TV.

Chris Watson has worked closely with two of the most high-profile natural history presenters in the business, David Attenborough and Bill Oddie. He is Oddie's favourite sound man and the TV veteran says of Watson: "I don't know anyone who is so intense yet so splendidly frivolous." Watson became a sound recordist in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television and is now widely regarded as one of the most creative sound artists in the business. His credits this year include the hugely popular Springwatch and Autumnwatch, and he received the Wildlife Film Asia Award for the BBC's Galapagos: Born of Fire. Watson also creates for the radio, with credits including Soundscape: The Sea Swallow, Watersong and The Estuary all for BBC Radio 4. He states his interests as recording animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world.

Photo of Chris Watson by Kate Humble | Iceland 2007

Weather Report named in The Guardian's 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die List | 22.11.07

'Weather Report' is named in The Guardian's '1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die' List...

Chris Watson
Weather Report (2003)

Watson is one of the world's leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena, and here he edits his field recordings into a filmic narrative. The unearthly groaning of ice in an Icelandic glacier is a classic example of, in Watson's words, putting a microphone where you can't put your ears.

This album is now back in stock in the TouchShop

Pacificus Oceanus | Touch Sevens 02 | 7" vinyl only

Touch Sevens 02
7" vinyl only

Pacificus Oceanus
Chris Watson

A. 3m
B. 10m

The voices and rhythms of the Humboldt current around the Galapagos Islands recorded April 2006 using a pair of Dolphin Ear Pro Hydrophones onto a NAGRA ARES-Pll digital audio recorder

Locked grooves...
Cut by Jason at Transition 7th August 2007

Now available from the TouchShop here

Sigur Ros - Heima | Film

Chris Watson & Jana Winderen have both contributed recordings to the new Sigur Ros movie, 'Heima'. This movie is to be premiered at the Electric Proms in London on October 24th 2007. An extract from 'Vatnajökull', from the album 'Weather Report' as well as other unreleased Icelandic recordings he has made. A trailer of the movie, with a clip of 'Vatnajökull', can be viewed here

Holystone - a field trip

In March 2006, Chris Watson, Jana Winderen & Mike Harding visited Holystone in Northumberland. A full report of this trip, including photos and recordings can be found here

Biography & Photos

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Touch & TouchRadio | Publishing & Licensing

Chris Watson is exclusively published by Touch Music [MCPS]. His work is also released on Touch, one of the most influential independent labels based in the UK [founded 1981/2].

Chris has contributed 3 pieces to TouchRadio, which are detailed below...

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Discography and Reviews

Here are Chris Watson's releases with the titles linked to the relevent page in the TouchShop. Reviews of all of Chris Watson's releases can be read here, for Star Switch On here, and for Number One here

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Downloads

Here you can download various tracks, including contributions to the Touch Samplers which are now out of print - note: please open in a separate tab by right-clicking or control clicking the link

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TV & Radio Work

Chris Watson records for and makes programmes for BBC Radio 4 for the Natural History Unit, based in Bristol, England.

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Installations & Academic or Other Public Works

Chris Watson, (sometimes with the assistance of Mike Harding from Touch) also gives talks, workshops and demonstrations of his work. Together they established a course at the Royal College of Art in Stockholm, have lectured widely in the UK, Belgium, Norway and many other places.

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Film, Theatre & Other Media

Chris's recordings have been used in other media too.

Feature Films include The Constant Gardener [2005]

Theatre Productions include Red Ladies by The Clod Ensemble [2008]

Playstation Games versions of the Harry Potter film series

Album Tracks including 'Breda' by Efterklang [Leaf, 2007]

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Features & Press Coverage

Reviews

Reviews of CDs and other releases can be found in the main Touch review section, which can be found here

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