Christopher DeLaurenti is a sound artist, improvisor, and phonographer based in Virginia. His sound work encompasses field recordings, electroacoustic and acousmatic music, text-sound scores, free-improvised low-tech electronics, and compositions for acoustic instruments.

Christopher has received several awards and residencies, notably the Alpert Award/Ucross Residency Prize and an Artist Trust / Washington State Arts Commission Music Fellowship as well as fully-funded artist residencies at Engine 27, Harvestworks, and CENTRUM. In 2007, his album Favorite Intermissions: Music Before and Between Beethoven-Holst-Stravinsky was profiled in The New York Times, received accolades from The Wire magazine ("…a high-concept masterstroke by a guerrilla phonographer."), and appeared as a Top 10 pick in Artforum.

Christopher has taught master classes, guest-lectured, and conducted studio critiques at many colleges and universities including Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University; The College of William & Mary; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; University of Washington; and Cornish College of the Arts. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from Bard College and his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2020 with a research program, "Activist Sound: Field Recording, Phonography, and Soundscapes of Protest."

As a music writer, Christopher's articles, essays, and reviews have been published in The Stranger, Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, The Seattle Weekly, The Seattle Times, Signal to Noise, MSN Music, Leonardo Music Journal, The Believer, and Earshot Jazz.

Christopher's sound work resides at delaurenti.net along with many music-related essays and articles.

Source: https://delaurenti.net/about/ , access November 2024