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Solo performances include Paris Autumn, Ars Electronica, Berliner Festspiele, and he has been deconstructed, interpreted and set by Tom Buckner, John Cage, David Dunn, Gary Hill, Johnny Klimek, Annea Lockwood, Larry Polansky, Robert Rauschenberg. Recent works include The Plato Songs using realtime spectral analysis and parsing of the voice into sixteen channels, and Quadraphonic cocktail for the three radio networks of the ABC. Mann is published by Lovely Music, Tall Poppies, EMF, OO Discs, Frogpeak, Station Hill and collective effort press.
‘Language is the mechanism whereby you understand what I’m thinking better than I do (where ‘I’ is defined by those changes for which I is required).’
On Chris Mann’s music:
‘Exactly’ - Herbert Brun
‘Voice as vortex’ - Annea Lockwood
‘the surfaCe
of tHis
poetRy’s
musIc
itS body’s talk
a fast Mix
of vulgArity
aNd
elegaNce’
- John Cage
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