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Christopher G. Short (Guitartronics)

About Me

Our mission at Cosmicdreamsacpes is to inspire joy, relaxation, introspection and healing.Christopher Short is a sound painter, guitarist, composer, sound designer and recording engineer. Calling his style of guitar playing "Guitartronics", as a nod to Robert Fripp and Fripp’s work in the area of looping guitar. Guitartronics goes beyond traditional guitar playing. Guitartronics is a process of putting an electric guitar through various of signal processing devices, (usually a lot of them) including looping delays which extend the normal range of the instrument and can cause it to take on unrecognizable qualities. Qualities that are very un-guitar like. Loops are interesting too because a single performer can sound like an orchestra through multiple layers of sound. And performance with looping delays is an improvisational form of music. Each performance yielding different results.Short works in the Ambient Electronica music genre. Considered currently as an underground music, it has a history that goes back over a hundred and twenty years, with the development of the first electronic instruments in 1867. (See http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/ for more details) Musical forms found in Ambient music has roots in musical traditions going back to Claude Debussy's impressionist music, Erik Satie's "Furniture Music" and often employs ethnomusicology by mixing in world music and music of a spiritual or transcendental nature. Commercially it's a niche genre that enjoys vibrant development by many segments of the music industry including currently working musicians in the field. Our focus here on myspace is to let folks know about this wonderful music.------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- The Garden Now available on iTunes:http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/Search:Chris Short - Ma Ja Le---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------About Christopher G. ShortWith an fascination for sounds, Short creates from both his earliest memories of noises he heard as a child growing up in tornado alley and from his great love of nature. Thunder rumbling over vast expanses of skies and plains in Tornado Alley where he spent the first seven years of his life., the loud and surprising blasts of the civil defense siren, a mournful cry circling around and around warning of the oncoming storm and tornado’s. Crickets and Cicada’s chirping in the summer heat, the sound of his own heartbeat in his ears as he pressed it hard down into the pillow.Considering himself as a sonic painter using air as my canvas and sound as a means to create atmosphere and activate the interior space.As a Sound Developer of interactive audio loops, I'll use extreme or severe electronic processing to stretch audio (any audio, not just guitar) out of it's normal context to create sonic atmospheres and textural ear candy for use in various software platforms. This work is commercially available through Sony Media Software and M-Audio. I view the use of this work by others as collaborations in absentia.Working for the Sony Media Software line of products since it was Sonic Foundry. Christopher Short - Ma Ja Le' has developed and been involved since 1999 in the production for several Sony products including Cinescore, MIDI instruments and ACID loop libraries. The Ma Ja Le loop library "Saturn & Elsewhere" received many excellent reviews including a recent review in Recording Magazine.Most recently Christopher was involved in creating backgrounds with Jeff Rona for the "Gathering" TV program which aired October 13th & 14th 2007. Also busy creating Themes for expanding Sony's Cinescore program and editing and compiling of several loop libraries. Ma Ja Le' have also developed loops for M-Audio and others.As a Guitarist / Composer:He is also one of the founding members of the Tribal Ambient team Ma Ja Le' with Paul Vnuk Jr. their music has been eloquently labeled by some as, Symphonic Tribal Minimalism. You can check out more info on Ma Ja Le here on myspace at www.myspace.com/majale39Albums include: "Dreams In The Orchards Of Saturn" released on A.J. & Grey April 1995 "Imaginaruim" (with Vir Unis & produced by Steve Roach) released on Mirage April 1998 "Seed" (with James Johnson) released on Hypnos December 2001Solo Works :Duende - Christopher Short The Garden - Christopher ShortCollaborations: Butterfly Chamber – James Johnson Aquaculture - James Johnson - Vir Unis - Christopher Short Yellow House - Vir Unis - Christopher ShortArrangement / Production / Engineering: Paul Vnuk Jr. - Silence Speaks in Shadows - 1999Engineering and arrangements on many projects include Sony's Cinescore Theme packs, Paul Vnuk Jr's Silence Speaks In Shadows CD which Bill Binkleman from Wind & Wire called one of the "Top 50 Ambient Releases of all time" and Steve Koening from Jazz Weekly said was "Quite Beautiful", and session work for many other clients.For more detailed info on CDs and reveiws see: www.majale.com www.hypnos.comFor Sessions and Collaborations go here indabamusic.com:Influences:Traditional World music, Jazz, Electric Blues, Old Timey Bluegrass, Music Concrete, Baroque, Contemporary Classical and Ambient ala Eno & Roach.Other Electronic / Ambient Musicians:Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Steve Roach Vidna Obmana, Robert Rich, Vir Unis, James Johnson, Jeff Pearce (Guitarist - Indiana), Michael Stearns, Matmos, David Sylvian, David Torn, Bill FrissellOther Ambient Guitarists: Robert Fripp, David Torn, Bill Frissell, Jeff PearceRavi Shankar, Tom Waits, Marc Ribot, David Torn, Mile Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Pharoh Sanders, Bjork, Djivan Gasparyan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Konono No. 1, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Santana to name a few.

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Member Since: 03/09/2006
Band Website: www.majale.com
Band Members: Paul Vnuk Jr., Vir Unis, James Johnson, Patrik Glassel
Record Label: Hypnos & Cosmicdreamscapes
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Surrealist Games

Relisting from  http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/juju/surr/Automatic WritingBetter than any spontaneous description I could give, here's a quote fromthe pocket-sized book, Surrealist Games(Alastair Brotchi...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:37:00 GMT

Writing from the Collective - My dipping and dabblings in language

Out of the aether talk. From the eternal drift at lizard point comes a prismarhythmic music.Some Cowboy strums his guitar dreamily under the starsWhile in the distance a womanScreams angrily at her lo...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:51:00 GMT

The Futurist Manifesto - F. T. Marinetti, 1909

The Four Post-ModernizationsThe Futurist ManifestoF. T. Marinetti, 1909We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath mosque lamps whose brasscupolas are bright as our souls, because like them t...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:42:00 GMT

Motifs - Structures for Improvisation - Gestural Forms

The purpose of this blog is to list various musical motifs used as structures for improvising Ambient music. Not a listing of the various sub genre Ambient music has broken into which can be found on ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:35:00 GMT

Must Reads for Ambient / Electronic Musicians - Fantastic Books for the Soundscapist

Below are some books that I suggest any electronic musician/artists would benefit from reading. I believe these books form the core of the philosophy for Ambient music making.Title                    ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:13:00 GMT

Favorite Poetry

The Poetry below would be sung to me by my Mother and Grandmother when I was a wee lad. Sometimes I wonder how much these fantastical Victorian lullabies  influenced my consciousness as I drifted into...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:14:00 GMT

Working with Miksang

Working with MiksangThis is from a twice weekly letter I get from Robert Genn. I often find interesting and helpful ideas within them. Sometimes I get an affirmation that I'm on the right track like t...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:54:00 GMT

Excerpts from "The Poetist Manifesto" (1924)

Excerpts from "The Poetist Manifesto" (1924) translated by Greg Evans @ www.cafeireal.com  Artistic professionalism canno...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:10:00 GMT

Online Ongoing Journal

12/20/08A fun little toy I found on the web through the Fluxus Portal this morning.http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/S CGSee also: http://www.fluxus.org/The Surrealist Compliment Gener...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:28:00 GMT