I'm off to San Francisco for a few days!!  I'll be up there working and playing in all of the food/art related riches of the Bay Area.  Amongst the things I plan on doing: -working on an upcoming project with cheese maker, Sue Conley. -beginning work on a 2011 installation/piece for the UC Berkeley Art Museum (w/ Machine Project) -visiting new friends at the Exploratorium -eating

April 8, 2010 7-9pm [thursday] Hammer Museum // Permanent Collection I’ve been curating a project in which museum patrons receive a Live Museum Soundtrack from our resident guitarist, Eric Klerks.  Eric walks visitors through their time in the collection improvising music to the art they view through a set of headphones.  Soundtracks are live, improvised, and completely personal. http://machineproject.com/projects/hammer/museum-soundtrack/

April 3, 2010 // 1-4pm [saturday] two-minute concerts in Little William Theater // Hammer Museum Chris presents his project FERMENT; a precursor to his collaboration with cheese-maker, Sue Conley of the Cowgirl Creamery.  Incorporating field recordings of John Taverna's Dairy and the Cowgirl's facilities, Chris examines the process of cheese-making from agriculture to affinage.  Spatialized sound in the Little William Theater with samples of artisanal

I will be a gust artist/lecturer at Pomona College, Thursday March 25. I'm very happy that Mark Allen invited me to come visit his Sound Art class and teach about graphic notation. He is a real swell guy, and bakes a mean ham. While I'm at Pomona, I'll be making an appearance on KSPC radio to talk with Rachel D

I'm now working as a curator of sound programming for the Machine Project. This job has come as part of a 2010 residency at the Hammer Museum (UCLA), and is made possible by a grant from the Irvine Foundation. Needless to say, I'm super psyched. There are a number of current projects that I'm curating, and even more that are soon

Concert of new music for brass at the new performing hall at CalArts::THE WILD BEAST::  Featuring works by Rosenboom, Sargent, Kallmyer, Marshall, and Krieger. Come check it out. March 14, 2010 // The Wild Beast // 5pm Curated by Matt Barbier and Chris Kallmyer.

Hey all~ Welcome to the new website.  It is new and improved---in the sense that I will update it (my last site was a monument to my achievements of 2008).  I hope you all stop by and check out the projects and events pages---much is happening in 2010: Residencies at the Hammer Museum and the Goldwell Open Air Museum in Death Valley.  Collaborations with