Chris Forsyth

guitarist

Guitarist Chris Forsyth is a founding member of The Peeesseye, who have been referred to as "the most remarkable smorgasbord of back porch minimalism, sound poetry and urban decay of recent memory" by Eric Weddle in Signal to Noise and inspired comparisons to such diverse groups as This Heat, Nurse With Wound, Sun City Girls, and AMM. Their unique combination of droning acoustics and electronic walls of sound has been documented on numerous CDs and tours of the US and Europe since their formation in 2002. Other projects include solo performances as well as the drone/noise quartet Phantom Limb & Bison; the deconstructionist cover band Dirty Pool; lead guitar duties for cabaret art rockers Condor Moments; and improvised encounters with artists including Jozef van Wissem (Holland), Alessandro Bosetti (Italy), Chris Heenan (US), Nate Wooley (US), Burkhard Beins (GER),Tetuzi Akiyama (JP), and Ernesto Diaz-Infante (US). Everyone, his collaboration with choreographer Miguel Gutierrez & the Powerful People premiered in March 2007 at the Abrons Art Center at Henry Street Settlement in New York City, and was performed at the Springdance Festival in Utrecht, Holland, in April 2007. In addition to composing and performing music, Forsyth has been publishing challenging music on the Evolving Ear label since 2000, with 19 releases thus far. His own music has been released on labels including Creative Sources (Portugal), Utech (US), Archive (US), Unframed (US), Pax Recordings (US) and Evolving Ear (US). He lives in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

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