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OPTION AUDIO 004

by Chris Corsano

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1. Chris Corsano - Solo 1 10:26
2. Chris Corsano - Solo 2 12:18
3. Chris Corsano - Solo 3 06:26

Chris Corsano is a drummer who has been working at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and noise music since the late 1990's. He began a long-standing, high-energy musical partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. Their style, which they occasionally refer to with (semi-)tongue-in-cheek humor as "The Hated Music", infuses modern free-jazz's ecstatic collectivist spirit with the urgency and intensity of hardcore punk.

His solo music investigates a visceral and always spontaneously-composed amalgam of extended techniques for drum set and non-percussive instruments of his own making incorporated into his kit: e.g. violin strings stretched across drum head, and modified reed instruments that transform the drums into resonators. Corsano has toured extensively throughout Europe, USA, Australia and Japan and has performed with a wide range of acclaimed musicians including Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Virginia Genta, C. Spencer Yeh, and Jandek.

He performed a solo set at Option on August 8th, 2016

OPTION AUDIO is a digital album series presented by Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago and highlights key performances from the ongoing Option program of improvised and experimental music. Every Thursday a completely unique recording from the most significant members of the contemporary music community will be made available to listeners, culled from a catalog of weekly concerts that have been taking place at ESS throughout the majority of each year since June of 2015.

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released September 27, 2018

Recorded by Ralph Loza & Mixed by Alex Inglizian at Experimental Sound Studio.

Thank you to the ESS volunteers, OPTION supporters & subscribers, and Sketchbook Brewing who has sponsored the series since the beginning.

This project is partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Cover Design by Fede Peñalva

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Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, Illinois

Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) was founded in 1986 as a networking organization and production facility for and by artists and composers interested in exploratory approaches to sound. From its inception it has been dedicated to supporting an eclectic, multidisciplinary model for the sonic arts, and to facilitating the work of artists at every stage of their careers. ... more

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