Chris Brown

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The Hub Glenn Spearman Double Trio Fuzzybunny ROVA PreEchoes Ensemble Natto Quartet Rova's 1995 Room CBD Trio Rova Channeling Coltrane The Chromelodia Project

ex Rova::Orkestrova

Chris Brown, San Francisco based composer, pianist and electronic instrument builder, studied with Gordon Mumma, David Rosenbloom and William Brooks.
His work has been described as a free flowing improvisatory parade of sound.
Brown teaches composition and electronic music at the Mills College in Oakland.
He is a member of the group Room with William Winant and Larry Ochs, and has composed for Ochs' Rova Saxophone Quartet.

ALBUMS

Zeena Parkins, Chris Brown (2), William Winant, Ben Davis

2024, CD, Relative Pitch Records

2021, CD-ROM, Album, Comp, Artifact Recordings

Chris Brown (2) , feat Theresa Wong, Kyle Bruckmann

2021, CD-ROM, Album, Artifact Recordings

Jon Raskin, Chris Brown (2), Jason Hoopes, Vladimir Tarasov

Synergy Signals

2020, CD, Album, Artifact Recordings

Chris Brown (2), Theresa Wong, Kyle Bruckmann

Retrospectacles

2018, 2xCD, Album, Fo'c'sle Records (2),

Bischoff*, Brown* And Perkis*

Transit: Live Electronic Music

2017, CD, Album, Not On Label,

Experimental/Electroacoustic

2016, CD, Album, New World Records

Gratkowski* / Brown* / Winant* + Gerhard E. WInkler

Vermilion Traces / Donaueschingen 2009

2012, 2xCD, Album, Leo Records

Iconicities (3 Pieces For Percussion And Live Electronics)

2011, CD, Album, New World Records,

Contemporary/Abstract/Experimental

Chris Brown (2) / Pauline Oliveros

Music In The Air

2009, CD, Album, Deep Listening

Gratkowski* / Brown* / Winant*

2008, CD, Album, Red Toucan Records

Fred Frith / Chris Brown

2007, CD, Album, Intakt Records,

Free Improvisation

2005, CD, Album, Tzadik,

Experimental/Ambient

2002, LP, Ecstatic Peace!,

Leftfield/Experimental

Henry Cowell / Chris Brown (2) / Sorrel Hays / Joseph Kubera / Sarah Cahill

New Music - Piano Compositions By Henry Cowell

1999, CD, Comp, New Albion

1996, CD, Album, Artifact Recordings,

Experimental/Free Improvisation

Master Switch Electroacoustic Music 1978-81

1996, LP, Insignificant

1995, CD, Album, Tzadik,

Abstract/Ambient

Room (6) : Chris Brown (2) / Larry Ochs / William Winant

1989, CD, Album, Sound Aspects Records,

Experimental/Free Improvisation

2001, CD, Album, Sonore

2009, CD, Album, Tzadik,

Abstract/Experimental/Modern Classical

2008, 3xCD, Comp, Tzadik

Gongs And Bamboos

2001, CD, Album, Tzadik

Hall Of Mirrors

1992, CD, Album, Music & Arts

2007, CD, Album, Rastascan Records

Rova::Orkestrova

Electric Ascension

2005, CD, Album, Atavistic,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

2005, CD, Album, 482 Music,

Free Improvisation

2003, CD, Album, 482 Music,

Free Improvisation

Glenn Spearman Double Trio

1996, CD, Album, Black Saint

1994, CD, Album, Artifact Recordings

Glenn Spearman Double Trio

1994, CD, Album, Black Saint,

Glenn Spearman Double Trio

Mystery Project

1993, CD, Album, Black Saint

APPEARANCES +

Monopiece + Jaap Blonk

Monopiece & Jaap Blonk

2019, CD, Album, Shhpuma

Rova Channeling Coltrane

Electric Ascension + Cleaning The Mirror

2016, Blu-ray, Album + DVD, Album + CD, Album, RogueArt,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz

2016, Cass, Alku

Domenico Sciajno

Sonic Shuffle / The App Release

2013, M/Stick, Ltd, of + Box, Bowindo,

Musique Concrète/Experimental/Freestyle

The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

2012, 6xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Soul Note, Black Saint,

Contemporary Jazz

David Rosenboom

In The Beginning

2012, 2xCD, Album, New World Records,

The Well Wishers

Dreaming Of The West Coast

David Rosenboom

How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims

2009, 2xCD, New World Records

Pogus Productions: White Fungus Compilation

2009, CD, Comp, White Fungus, Pogus Productions,

Freestyle/Modern Classical/Musique Concrète/Abstract/Experimental

I, Norton: An Opera In Real Time

2009, CD, Album, Rastascan Records,

Opera/Free Improvisation

FO A RM 5 (Autonomy)

2007, CD, Comp, FO A RM Projects, Sedimental

United Brassworkers Front

In Between Stories

2007, CD, Album, Evander Music

David Rosenboom

Myles Boisen & Jon Raskin

2006, CD, Album, Rastascan Records,

Free Improvisation

Erstes Luftschiff Zu Kalifornien

2005, CD, Album, Ltd, Creative Sources

Apollo And Marsyas: Het Apollohuis 1980-1997 An Anthology Of New Music Concepts

2002, 2xCD, Comp, Apollo Records (8),

2002, CD, Comp, Korm Plastics,

Musique Concrète/Experimental

Visions - Performances From The EMIT Series

2002, CD, Isospin Labs,

Abstract/Free Improvisation/Experimental

Wadada Leo Smith

Luminous Axis (Caravans Of Winter And Summer)

2002, CD, Album, Tzadik,

Abstract/Future Jazz/Experimental

1999, CD, Album, Sparkling Beatnik Records

Blues For Falasha

Deep Listening Band – Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Stuart Dempster

Non Stop Flight

1998, CD, Album, Music & Arts

Musique Concrète/Experimental

John Coltrane's Ascension (Rova's 1995 Live Recording)

1996, CD, Album, Black Saint,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

In C - 25th Anniversary Concert

1995, CD, Album, New Albion,

The Secret Magritte

1995, CD, Album, Black Saint,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris*

Testament: A Conduction Collection - Conduction 11, Where Music Goes

1995, CD, Album, New World Records, CounterCurrents

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris*

Testament: A Conduction Collection

1995, Box, Comp, Ltd + 10xCD, New World Records, CounterCurrents

CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 15: The Virtuoso In The Computer Age V

1994, CD, Comp, Centaur Records,

Barbara Golden's Greatest Hits Vol. 1

1994, CD, Burning Books,

Avantgarde/Experimental

Anthology Of Music For The 21st Century

1991, CD, Comp, Leonardo Music Journal

This New Generation

Dinner At Eight

Steven M. Miller

Between Noise And Silence

2015, 7xCD + DVD-V + Box, Innova Recordings

The Sims Social, Vol. 4: Classical, Jazz & Latin

2011, 10xFile, AAC, Album, 256, Electronic Arts Music

Improbable Transgressions

2007, 2xCD, Album, Sirr

Oasis: Music From Mills 2001

2001, CD, Album, Comp, Mills College

2000, CD, Comp, Swezlex

CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 17: Music From CCM At Mills College

1994, CD, Comp, Centaur Records

The Hub, Various

1987, Cass, Album, Antelope,

Christian Wolff / Krzysztof Penderecki

Changing The System / Rękopis Znaleziony W Saragossie

7", Unofficial, Stomach Ache Records