Photo by Todd Carroll contact beckeresque music Recent Projects: The Other Shoe Choreography by Sasha Soreff Original Score by Chris Becker Performed June 25 though 28, 2009 at The Ailey Citicorp Theater (NYC) February 2009 Guest Composer and Performer (laptop) at Capital University's 2009 NOW Music Festival with Lewis 'Flip' Barnes (trumpet) and Lynn Wright (guitar) Delta for Solo Guitar Commissioned by Dan Sumner and the Bloomington Classical Guitar Society Funded in part by the American Music Center's Composer Assistance Program Premiered January 10th, 2009, Bloomington, IN at the John Waldron Arts Center by guitarist Dan Sumner Composer Chris Becker lives and works in New York City composing, arranging, and recording music for a wide variety of solo and collaborative projects including music for dance, mixed-media installations, and film. His music utilizes the recording studio as both an instrument and a means of notating to tape. In performance, Becker's prerecorded music and sounds are combined with the gesture of live performance using live mixing techniques. Rock and roll language, indigenous rhythms from around the world, and musique concrète are all part of his compositional palette. He studied composition at Capital University with Dr. Rocky J. Reuter (Assistant Dean, Conservatory of Music) and Stan Smith. Becker's music has been featured on WNYC's New Sounds (hosted by John Schaffer) and Overnight Music (hosted by Helga Davis), WWNO and WWOZ in New Orleans and on KCSC's The Composer Next Door (hosted by Rob Deemer). (continued) Please check out my page on My Space for samples of my music... Online journal detailing current compositional projects... New Orleans (links related to and for musicians affected by hurricane Katrina)