Christi Denton

composer/sound artist

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(70, 36, 16); font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: small; border-collapse: separate; "><b>Christi Denton</b>&nbsp;is a Portland based composer and sound installation artist who works with found sounds, electronics, and homemade and modified instruments. Her works have been performed throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. She's played in festivals including the&nbsp;<a href="http://pica.org/tba" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Time Based Art Festival</a>&nbsp;(Portland, Oregon) as part of the sold-out&nbsp;<a href="http://tentinydances.org/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Ten Tiny Dances</a>/25 concert, the&nbsp;<a href="http://spark.umn.edu/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Spark Festival</a>&nbsp;of Electronic Music in Minneapolis Minnesota, and RENCONTRES 2004 in Paris France. She was played daily for a year on&nbsp;<a href="http://radiolavalamp.org/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Radio Lavalamp</a>&nbsp;(community radio in Osaka Japan), and was featured on<a href="http://flasher.com/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Flasher.com</a>&nbsp;(based in Berlin Germany). She's worked on several installations, including building giant windchimes in the San Francisco Castro district (as part of the&nbsp;<a href="http://thingamagigs.org/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Music for People and Thingamajigs</a>&nbsp;Festival), and resonance pieces that were part of 'the Prepared Exploratorium,' in which musicians and sound artists turned the&nbsp;<a href="http://exploratorium.edu/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Exploratorium</a>&nbsp;museum into a giant instrument. In addition, her music is part of an installation at the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.casoriacontemporaryartmuseum.com/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Casoria Contemporary Art Museum</a>&nbsp;in Naples Italy. She was also a composer in Klavier Nonette, an installation created by&nbsp;<a href="http://http//www.trimpinmovie.com/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Trimpin</a>. She's also worked in more traditional veins: her arrangement of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.harrisondocumentary.com/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Lou Harrison</a>'s King David' Lament for Jonathan was performed during&nbsp;<a href="http://www.otherminds.org/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Other Minds 9</a>&nbsp;by the San Francisco Opera Singers and the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.<p><img src="http://the-compound.org/images/glass2008.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="267" border="0" align="right">She studied at the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ccmix.com/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis</a>&nbsp;in Paris France and at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mills.edu/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Mills College</a>&nbsp;in Oakland California. At the Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis, she studied computer music composition with Gerard Pape, Jean-Claude Risset, Trevor Wishart, and Curtis Roads, while at Mills College, she studied composition with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Christian Wolff, Chris Brown, and John Bischoff. She's been involved with<a href="http://www.electrogals.org/" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Electrogals</a>, a Pacific Northwest music non-profit that promotes women in electronic music, since 1995.</p><p>Her laser MIDI controller has been accepted into the 2012&nbsp;<a href="http://http//www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/event/2012-margaret-guthman-musical-instrument-competition" style="color: rgb(1, 3, 243); text-decoration: underline; ">Guthman Musical Instrument Competition</a>.</p></span>

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