Composer Chris Becker creates chamber, electronic, and improvised music for dance, film, and mixed media installations, and has received grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Meet the Composer, and the American Music Center (now New Music USA). He composed the score for choreographer Rachel Cohen's evening-length work If The Shoe Fits, named one of the best dance performances of 2005 by The New York Times dance critic John Rockwell. Becker’s collaboration with painter and video artist Lillian Warren and dancer Annie Arnoult Who You Once Were performed to sold-out audiences in August 2019 at Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX. Becker has also composed music for choreographers Sasha Soreff (The Other Shoe, Ailey Citigroup Theater, 2009), Adrian Jevicki (La Spectra, The Tank, 2009), Rebecca French (The Rite of Summer, Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, 2015), and Blakeley White-McGuire (Devotion, Bell Works, 2021). In 2022, Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater commissioned Becker to compose music for The Lost Princess of Oz, a ballet based on the stories of L. Frank Baum, which ran for eight performances at The Pollak Theater at Monmouth University.
- Douglas Henderson, New York City, New York, Recording and Mixing
- Stan Smith, Columbus, OH, Jazz Composition
- Tom Myron, Boston, MA, Arranging and Orchestration
- Dr. Rocky Reuter, Columbus, OH, Composition
- The Lost Princess of Oz, score by Becker for banjo, violin, cello, piano, and two percussionists, choreography by Gabriel Chajnik, performed by Axelrod Contemporary Ballet, The Pollak Theater, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey
- Devotion, score for string quartet by Chris Becker, choreography by Blakeley White-McGuire, performed by Axelrod Contemporary Ballet, Bell Works, Newark, New Jersey
- Widow’s End, video by Jil Guyon, score by Chris Becker, Proceso de Error 2020 film festival, Valparaíso, Chile
- Heat Wave Hallucination, video by Jil Guyon, score by Chris Becker, Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
- Vigil, video by Jil Guyon, score by Chris Becker, Traverse Video Festival, Toulouse, France
- Ambient Avenues Concert Series at the Silos, solo laptop performance, The Silos on Sawyer, Houston, TX
- Who You Once Were, live performance collaboration with visual artist Lillian Warren and dancer Annie Arnoult, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
- WW, video by Jil Guyon, score by Chris Becker, Psychedelic Film and Video Festival, The Museum of Moving Image, New York City, New York
- Vigil, video by Jil Guyon, score by Chris Becker, Art 3’s Second Bi-annual Cube Art Project, presented as a 750 sq. foot digital public display with sound, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Recidivistas, score by Chris Becker, choreography by Rachel Cohen, performed by 30 dancers, Socrates Park, New York City, New York
- Delta, for classical guitar. Commissioned by Dan Sumner and the Bloomington Classical Guitar Society. Additional funding for the score came from a grant from the American Music Center. Premiered January 10, 2009, at the John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, Indiana.
