This is another sketch for Assemblage, a new, collaborative work-in-progress with choreographer Rachel Cohen and Racoco Productions. Rachel and I are trading music and movement on video back and forth, generating a lot of material, and figuring out how to make a long-distance "virtual collaboration" work.
Chris Becker
An online diary recording my work as a composer and writer in Houston, Texas and beyond . . .
Saturday, March 2, 2024
What Did You Do Today?
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Jimbo's Lullaby
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Misha Penton Collective at the Silos at Sawyer Yards
Photo by Dave Nickerson
Misha Penton Collective is Sculpture Month Houston 2023 music ensemble in residence. Experience voice, guitar, and electronic ambient, textural, and spacious music to accompany the visual art installations throughout the sonorous Silos at Sawyer Yards.
Misha Penton, voice. George Heathco, guitars. Chris Becker, laptop.
Performances at 3pm after curator Volker Eisele leads an exhibit tour from 2pm-3pm. FREE.
Performance Dates, Saturdays:
October 14 & 21
November 4 & 18
Site Gallery Houston (MAP)
The Silos at Sawyer Yards
1502 Sawyer Street, Suite 400
Houston, TX 77007
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
City Suite (Remixed and Mastered)
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Does Humor Belong in Psychotherapy? (Online)
Does Humor Belong in Psychotherapy?
Discover how the music of Frank Zappa, the broad humor of vaudeville stars The Marx Brothers, and the no-filter verbosity of radio personality Howard Stern have inspired the treatment of juvenile patients carrying diagnoses including major depressive disorder, autism spectrum disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and childhood-onset schizophrenia.
Saturday, July 1
10 - 11:30am CT
Potentially appropriate for 1.5 CEs
Monday, April 24, 2023
Celebrating Earth Day with A Gift from the Bower
Chris Becker, Rachel Gardner, Patrick Moore, Carlos Canul, and Ruby Surls.
Photo by Heidi Vaughan.
What a gift it is to be asked to create a new piece of music to herald a new sculpture and poem all created by such talented people. More photos to come from the April 22, 2023 opening of A Gift from the Bower, a group exhibit of incredible outdoor art created by some of Texas's finest artists, included the premiere of my first-ever piece for solo cello "A Gift from the Bower."
A Gift from the Bower was presented by DiverseWorks & Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature. Originally conceived by artists James Surls and Charmaine Locke, the project is co-curated by Jack Massing and Xandra Eden to include newly commissioned works by fourteen artists and artist teams.