About


Kameron Christopher is a sound and multimedia artist from Los Angeles, CA. He has been working professionally in the arts for the past decade and is currently in his MFA studies in the Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence & Design and Integrated Media programs at the California Institute of the Arts. His work incorporates such concepts as Artificial Intelligence, Intuition, Biofeedback, and Phenomenology into interactive installation, sound art, CGI, and music performance and composition. Kameron received a B.M. in Music Composition from Berklee College of Music in 2010.

“The evolution of human consciousness, at every stage, requires reflection upon that which already has existence. Reflection stands as perhaps the most crucial element in the process of development in that it guides the individual to the clearing from which growth springs forth. The individual must therefore take great care in the way in which this reflection is approached. In order to accomplish a transformation in consciousness, one must not only apprehend the reflection that is set upon, but also question the basis of that reflection. This task requires a fundamentally different way of thinking, which calls for the deconstruction of established structures of presumption and the development of radically new languages. Any creation of art through this new reflective process not only expresses a new way of being, but also challenges the presuppositions of those who encounter the work of art. In turn, this challenging makes way for a potential transformation in consciousness.

The facilitation of these higher states of consciousness is the focus of my own creative projects. Providing situations where the individual encountered by the work of art is not only confronted with an incalculable occurrence but is also forced to reevaluate the basis of their own formalization. This strife between the inexhaustible revealing of the work of art and the permanence and stability of structuralized thought leads to a systematic breakdown for the experiencing individual, which, if reflected upon in the aforementioned manner, provides an opening for transformation.” –Kameron Christopher

 


Events/Dates

Upcoming Events

May 12- Trigger Fest @ A407 @ CalArts

 Time: 8pm

Admission: Free

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Past Events

May 11th-  Digital Arts and Technology Expo MTIID @ Roy O. Disney Concert Hall @ CalArts

May 9th – Music &  Image concert @ ROD @ CalArts

 May 7th – Interpolations: Noise in Space @ Space C113 @ CalArts

 April 22nd – Christoffer Schunk Composition recital @ CalArts

April 17th – ESP Night #3 @ CalArts

March 21st-23rd – Lessons in Composing Chaos @ Black and White Studio A404 @ CalArts

Directed and Choreographed by Tarren Johnson

March 17th-  The Outer Beast @ Wild Beast in CalArts

February 17th- Transmigrations I @ Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, CA

2011

December 15th, 2011- Mixed Signals: Bulbs • Jinku Kim • A6B • Replicant @ CalArts

December 10th, 2011- MUSIC AND IMAGE @ CalArts

November 17th, 2011- ESP Night One @ CalArts

September 3rd, 2011- Experimental Sound Practices in the Plaza @ machine project

June 5th- Dcompany Experience @ The Shrine NYC

May 15th- Invocation @ The Trash Bar in Brooklyn NYC

2010

October 18th- Deepak Gopinath’s Recital

October 5th- Anastasiya Dumma’s Recital

September 3rd- Sala Manuel M. Ponce, Cuernavaca

August 28th- Jazzorca, Mexico City

August 27th- Dagon de Jade, Cuernavaca

August 25th- Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City

August 22nd- Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli, Mexico City

July 1st- Deepak Gopinath’s Recital @ Berklee

July 7th- Kameron Christopher presents: Invocation

June 24th- Electronic Design & Production recital @ Berklee

June 17th- Neara Russell’s final Berklee Concert @ David Friend Recital Hall

June 15th- Marte Roel presents: Conjectures @ Berklee

May 5th- Emi Inaba Big Band Recital 2 David Friend Recital Hall

April 1st- PWD Awards Concert with Neara Russell @ Berklee Performance Center

March 25th- Composition Awards Concert with Neara Russell @ David Friend Recital Hall

Feb. 26th- Composers without borders concert @ Old South Church

Feb. 18th- Neara Russell’s senior recital @ Berklee

Feb. 12th- Kameron Christopher’s recital “Les couleurs du monde” @ Berklee

Feb. 3rd- The Way Up Project @ Berklee

Jan. 14th- NAMM

2009

Dec. 12th- Consilience @ Rutmans Violin’s

Dec. 10th- Neara Russell Steinway Recital @ Steinert Hall

Dec. 7th- Society of Composers Concert @ Old South Church

Dec. 2nd- Berklee Composition Recital

Nov. 14th- Emi Inaba @ Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue

Oct. 13th-Neara Russell @ Red Room in Cafe 939

Sept. 25th- Neara Russell present Information Fiction

July 20th- Emi Inaba Quintet Recital

July 9th- Neara Russell at Kendall Square and ICA

April 22nd- Society of Composers Concert @ Old South Church in Boston

April 15th- Premiere of “Imaginations no 1..” and “Fantasia d’amour” at Berklee Student Composition Recital.

April 7th- Neara Russell Cd Release Party at TT the Bear’s Place

April 4th- Andy Buch Bass Recital

Works

 

Performances include:

Conjectures Tour- Mexico 2010

YellowJackets- Los Angeles, Ca 2009

NAACP THEATRE AWARDS- LosAngeles, Ca 2008

NAMM SHOW- Los Angeles, Ca 2008 & 2010

Bobby Morrison- Los Angeles, Ca 2009

Tom Scott- Los Angeles, Ca 2007

Macy Gray- Los Angeles, Ca 2005-2007

Jackson Browne- Los Angeles, Ca 2003-2007

Ernie Andrews- Los Angeles, Ca 2007

Chaka Khan- Los Angeles, Ca 2006

George Clinton- Los Angeles, Ca 2006

Terence Blanchard- Los Angeles, Ca 2006

Angie Stone- Los Angeles, Ca 2005

Herbie Hancock- Los Angeles, Ca 2005-2006

Wayne Shorter- Los Angeles, Ca 2005

Kirk Franklin- Los Angeles, Ca 2005

Playboy Jazz Festival- Los Angeles, Ca 2004

Horace Silver- Los Angeles, Ca 2004

 

Over 300 Performances

Over a dozen compositions for many ensemble types.

Years of teaching experience in youth programs

 

 

Original Compositions:

Large Ensemble

Nebula- Orchestra (3332/4331/timp.4perc/hp.pf/str)

Invocations- String orchestra

Concertino for Jazz Orchestra

The River Acheron- String Orchestra

Sirens- String Orchestra

Chamber ensemble

Light is Alive- Soprano Voice, A. Sax, Guitar, Double Bass, Piano, and Percussion

Sonata for Cello and Piano

Only Breath- for String Quartet

3 short pieces- for Clarinet and Piano

Ambivalence- for Piano

Imaginations no 1…- for Flute, Bassoon, Cello, Double Bass, and Piano

Fantasia d’amour- for Flute, Bassoon, Cello, Double Bass, and Piano

Moment of Silence- for mixed chorus (SSAATTBB)

Confinement- for Clarinet, Horn, and Piano

Lyrebird- for Piccolo and Flute

Rasterization- for Violin and Cello

The Land of Dreams- for Alto, Baritone, and piano

Rusalka- for Solo Cello

Electroacoustic

Les Couleurs du Monde- Voice, Alto Sax, Amplified Flute, Amplified Cello, Piano, and live electronics

Eros in us- Cello, Piano, and Prerecorded electronics

Shadow Scan- Voice and Electronics

Film Score to “The Essence of Things”

Film Score to “Michael’s Rose”

Kros

 

What is KROS?

 

KROS is a highly sophisticated program built for the creation and manipulation of Artificially Intelligent musical life forms in the microsonic domain through the technique of MicroMontage. KROS is highly flexible and gives the user the ultimate control over production, rather it be implementing custom genetic algorithms or even windowing equations. It includes a plethora of well known algorithms such as Markov Systems (2nd-Order, HMM), Cellular Automata (Conway, Linden), Boids, Spring Motion, Brownian Motion and many more. It also includes many standard and self-designed windowing and spatialization functions, all of which can be mix and matched an implemented at every stage of development…

There are a ton more of features which I’ll explain more soon…and also audio samples..so be sure to check back!

Not currently available for release.
KROS by Kameron Christopher

Kronos

KRONOS

KRONOS is a system I’ve developed that allows users to control the musical robots of CalArts MTIID using information gathered from their brain with an EEG device. This is accomplished through the combination of complexed Artificial Neural Network Algorithms and advanced Neuro-Feedback techniques in the ChucK programming language.

Undecakisimage

Undecakisimage

Undecakisimage is an audio-visual installation developed by myself, Jon He and Kay Adams for the Digital Arts and Technology fair at CalArts. It features an 11-plane projection mapped sculpture that interacts with users via midi controller.

 The programming was done in the Processing and MAX/MSP languages.

 

 

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Radiological soil sample data collected during the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant incident through Gamma spectroscopy and Liquid scintillation counting is represented as an image. This image then faces mutation several times before being exposed to the radioactive decay of the elements it is made of.

 

Kameron Christopher © 2012

 

 

Mood

Time, Space, and Creativity within CalArts is a research project which investigates how time and space effect mood and thus creativity. Posters with QR codes have been placed within certain hallways in the music, theater, and animation schools, and when scanned with your phone will prompt you with a short 30-second web-based questionnaire. Please get involved and help us collect data regarding mood and creativity throughout the day over the next coming weeks!