Chris Peck

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Chris Peck is a Michigan-born composer investigating the peculiarities of listening and perception through a diverse practice that includes works for large untrained groups, interdisciplinary performance collaborations, and improvisation with the computer.

His frequent work with dance has included scores for RoseAnne Spradlin, Eleanor Bauer, John Jasperse, David Dorfman, Jeanine Durning, Ming Yang/Dance Forum Taipei, Abby Yager, and others.

Ongoing projects include Listening Music for the Age of Crystal Moon Cone, a series of ambient electroacoustic performances and recordings with Stephen Rush and Jon Moniaci, Brooklyn Adult Recorder Choir, directed with choreographer Beth Gill, the Live Sh-- performance series curated with Chase Granoff, live electronic music for The Intensity Police Are Working My Last Gay Nerve with video artist Charles Atlas, Manpack Variant, an electronics duo with Jaime Fennelly, electric guitar accompaniment for the diary entries of Asubtout's Eleanor Hullihan and Katy Pyle, and collaborations with interdisciplinary video/performance artist and storyteller Deke Weaver.

In collaboration with Milka Djordjevich, Anna Sperber, and Jeff Larson, Chris curated the Movement Research Spring Festival 2008, May 26-June 8 at Judson Church and venues around New York, NJ, and Baltimore.

Chris is currently working on an MA at the Dartmouth College Digital Musics Program in Hanover, NH. Prior to that, from 2003-2008, he lived and worked in New York City. He holds degrees in electronic music and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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