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Chris Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n Biography & Productions <\/p>\n ‚Stepping into The Dark‘ [1996 TO:27] <\/p>\n ‘Stepping into The Dark’ won an Award of Distinction at the 2000 Prix ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Television <\/p>\n Radio <\/p>\n Residencies, Installations, Performances & Lectures <\/p>\n Brief history profile <\/p>\n Institutes & Societies <\/p>\n www.chriswatson.net<\/a> <\/p>\n Gruenrekorder:<\/strong> Chris Watson Biography & Productions Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio; Chris Watson is a sound recordist with a particular and passionate interest in recording the sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance recordist for film, tv & radio Watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-367","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio; Chris Watson is a sound recordist with a particular and passionate interest in recording the sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance recordist for film, tv & radio Watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with track assembly and sound design in post production. He has released 3 solo CDs for Touch:<\/p>\n
\n‘Outside The Circle of Fire‘ [1998 TO:37]
\n‚Weather Report‘ [ 2003 TO:47]
\n ‘Number One’ [2005 Touch # Tone:41] a collaboration with Z’ev & K.K. Null<\/p>\n
\n‘The Life of Birds’ for BBC TV – BAFTA Award for Best Factual Sound
\n‘The Life of Mammals’ for BBC TV
\n‘Life in the Undergrowth’ for BBC TV
\n‘Big Cat Diary’ for BBC TV
\n‘Great Railway Journeys – Mexico’ for BBC TV<\/p>\n
\n‘A Swallow’s Journey’ BBC Radio 4 – Sony Radio Award Nominee 2002
\n‘A Small Slice of Tranquillity’ BBC Radio 4 TX Dec. 2002
\n‘A Robin’s Tale’ BBC Radio 4 TX Dec. 2003
\n‘The House’ BBC Radio 4 TX Feb. 2004
\n‘White tailed Eagle’ BBC Radio 4 TX Feb. 2005
\n‘North by North West’ BBC Radio 4 TX Aug. 2005
\n‘Sound Stories’ RTE Radio 1 Dublin Sept. 2005<\/p>\n
\nKitakyushu Centre for Contemporary Art, Japan Dec. 2003
\nHibiki Festival, Osaka, Japan Jan. 2004
\nCOMA summer school for Sonic Arts July 2004
\nSonic Acts X Paradiso Club, Amsterdam Sept. 2004
\n‘Brief Encounters’ – Bristol Film Festival Nov. 2004
\n‘A Winter’s Tale’ FACT Liverpool Feb. 2005
\n‘Tracks’ Accademia Britannica, Rome March 2005
\n‘No Man’s Land’ Sutton High Sports College, St Helens April 2005
\nVenice La Biennale, Sept. 2005
\nTransart05, Bolzano Sept. 2005
\nUltima Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo 2005
\nArtefact Festival, Leuven, Belgium Feb. 2006
\nForbury Garden Sound Trail, Reading May 2006<\/p>\n
\n1972 to 1981: Cabaret Voltaire
\n1981 to 1984: Tyne Tees Television; Sound Recordist and founder member of The Hafler Trio
\n1985 to 1987: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Sound Recordist and Hafler Trio projects
\n1987 to 1993: Freelance Sound Recordist
\n1994 to present: Director at Hoi Polloi Film & Video Ltd.<\/p>\n
\nMember of the Institute of Broadcast Sound [MIBS]
\nMember of the International Association of Wildlife Film-makers [IAWF]<\/p>\n
\nChris Watson is exclusively published by Touch Music<\/a> [MCPS]<\/p>\n
\nV.A.: “Recorded in the Field By…<\/a>” (Gruen 033\/06)
\nV.A.: “in drawing<\/a>” (GrD 03\/05)
\nAlec Finlay & Chris Watson: “siren<\/a>” (GrD 01\/06)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"