Chris Watson

CHRIS WATSON Is a sound recordist who specialises in documenting the sounds of animals and their habitats around the world. He was a member of both Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio in the seventies and eighties. He has worked for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds as well extensively in film, television and radio. From the middle of the nineties he began to release CDs based on pure environmental recordings on the Touch label. These albums [Stepping into the Dark, Outside the Circle of Fire and most recently Weather Report] have become touchstones in the world of field recording as examples of the sensitivity and passion needed to create these amazing recordings. When he isn’t travelling he lives near Newcastle in England.

Brief history profile

1972 to 1981: Cabaret Voltaire

1981 to 1984: Tyne tees television; sound recordist and founder member of The Hafler Trio

1985 to 1987: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; sound recordist and Hafler Trio projects

1987 to 1993: freelance sound recordist

1994 to present: partner with Hoi Polloi Film & Video; ’Stepping into The Dark’ won an Award of Distinction at the Prix ARS Electronica Festival ‘The Life of Birds’ for BBC TV - BAFTA Award for Best Factual Sound

web: http://www.chriswatson.net