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CHRIS RYAN WILLIAMS
BIO
Chris Ryan Williams is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His work takes the form of electroacoustic composition and performance installation and deals with decoding family history, ambience, and time-space compression. His debut EP ‘Live’ received praise from Jazz Right Now and The Quietus for “dazzling collaged pieces that ricochet between improvised passages and written material” (Peter Margasak, The Quietus). He has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, has been commissioned by WasteLAnd and International Contemporary Ensemble.
He has been in residence with BANFF Centre for the Arts, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Musik Installationen Nürnberg and is 2023 American Composers Forum Fellow and 2024 Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow. He has collaborated with creators including Eyvind Kang, Patrick Shiroishi, Bennie Maupin, Nicole Mitchell, Imani Dennison, Wendy Eisenberg, Luke Stewart, Pink Siifu, and Marjani Forte-Saunders.
Williams also has an ongoing collaboration with cellist Lester St. Louis under the moniker HxH, a duo which has “embraced the challenge of bringing laptop instrumentalism into a wide personal world by making sounds that are at once art-minded and accessible, and true to the tenets of spontaneous composition and “social music,” (Piotr Orlov, Pioneer Works)
DISCOGRAPHY
2024
Wendy Eisenberg - Eye Music (American Dreams)
Patrick Higgins - Versus (Other People)
2023
Pink Siifu - Gumbo (Dynamite Hill/Good Partners)
Remembrance Quintet - Do you Remember? feat. Daniel Carter (Sonboy Records)
Yaeji - With a Hammer (XL Recordings)
2022
Sans Soleil II (CoW music / Astral Spirits) (duo w Patrick Shiroishi)
SSWAN - Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster (577 Records)
2021
Chris Williams - Live (CoW music / Astral Spirits)
Pink Siifu - Negro Deluxe (Dynamite Hill)
Sans Soleil I (Astral Spirits) (duo w Patrick Shiroishi)
2020
Pink Siifu - Negro (Field-Left)
SOUNDTRACKS
2022 Bone Black: Midwives vs. the South (Directed by Imani Dennison)
2021 Black.Eco (Short film directed by Shauna Davis)