Conflict of Interest Christopher DeLaurenti
posted by on May 29 at 19:00 PM
The New York Times has a front-page piece on their website right now about Seattle-based composer and sound artist—and Stranger music columnist—Christopher DeLaurenti. It’s the top story on the NYT’s website right now.
For seven years, Christopher DeLaurenti went to orchestral concerts wired, wearing a leather vest with microphones nestled in the shoulders and cables running down the back. Come intermission, when the audience wandered out, Mr. DeLaurenti perked up.The DeLaurenti concert going vest had microphones sewn into it. He made his way toward the stage. With his MiniDisc recorder running, he secretly captured the random sounds that followed: woodwind noodles, honks of oboe reeds, the murmur of voices, the scraping of chairs.
For Mr. DeLaurenti, 39, a Seattle-based “sound artist” and composer, the noises were art. Now, out of more than 50 hours of recording, he has compiled a CD of greatest hits. It is called “Favorite Intermissions: Music Before and Between Beethoven, Stravinsky, Holst,” the latest entry in humankind’s search for art in unexpected nooks.
Congrats, Christopher!
Go, Chris, major kudos! Thanks for the CD, btw.
This CD has the Fnarf seal of approval.
Regarding your last quote in the article, Christopher, you have succeeded. Congratulations!
Shit, forgot about this. Gotta go get me one.
Keep keepin' on, Chris!
He also has a great show on KBCS called Flotation Device...he's on every other Sunday from 10 to midnight.
Long overdue praise for Seattle's Mr. Spock of music. Good on ya, Chris.
I went to college with Chris in Olympia. Back then, his favortie bands were Yes, the Beatles and Duran Duran.
It's nice to know his taste in music has evolved!
Thanks for the congratulations, everyone! And yes, in my alternate history of pop music I still do swear by the Beatles, Yes, and Duran Duran.
Former roommates would also attest (and grouse about) a concurrent obsession with Stravinsky, Steve Reich, Bitches-Brew era Miles Davis, and Elliott Carter's Second String Quartet as well as much more heinous affections for early Japan (whose last two records do still sound great), the Associates, Starcastle, the Crusaders, the Virgin Prunes, and so on.
To quote Stravinsky, "Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven."
Is this fellow married or otherwise romantically involved?
I like the way he writes.
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