Chris Strouth

February 17, 2010





*Name: Paris1919

*Members: Chris Strouth

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Digital deconstruction, I use a small arsenal of Ableton Live, and Reaason and roughly a zillion plug ins. I tend to use a lot of micro sampling where I am just using a fraction of the original sample cel. It's very rare in my work where you can tell where the source material is from. The track on your episode is a rare exception.

*Is there a story behind your name?

*Location: MPLS, its a great city to work in. When I started there wasn't much of an experimental scene here at all. Now its rife with it. You can't swing an emo kid without running into an experimental night somewhere.

*What is your creative/artistic background: That's a loaded question, but the short version is I am a producer and probably to a larger point an instigator. I have worked in every form of music I can think of except for new country, made movies, TV shows, theater, played in major museums and crap rock joints. This group (Paris1919) represents a new thing for me in that it's my first solo project since 1987 - yes I am old.

*History: Jesus, don't make me recount that, if you really care look it up.

*Born: July 28, 1968 (please note same birthday as Marcel DuChamp).

*Motivations: No idea, I started making noise music in High School listening to John Zorn and David Van Tiegham and got my first sampler The supper classy Casio Sk1 and was hooked. Then I started in groups and wound up doing everything from techno to rockabilly, neo classical and jazz. Eventually I just found that I had a lot to say and I needed to build a new language to say it.

*Philosophy: My motto is "as I live and learn, dig and be dug in return." - Langston Hughes

*How would you like to be remembered: There's a paraphrased line in a Dave Clark 5 song that sums it up: "He was young with all of his mite."

*Web address: http://soundcloud.com/paris1919