christi denton

christi denton is a portland based composer and sound installation artist who works with found sounds, electronics, and homemade and modified instruments. she has a degree in music composition from mills college and a graduate certificate from the centre de creation musicale iannis xenakis (france).

christi has built giant chimes as part of the music for people & thingamajigs festival and amplified exhibits in the exploratorium. she played at the spark festival and on iueke’s show on rinse france. her music is part of the exhibit six seconds around me in the casoria contemporary art museum in italy. in 2011 and 2012, her work was featured in collaborative performances for ten tiny dances at the time based art festival in portland, where dancers controlled music through light and flex sensors. she competed in the 2012 guthman instrument competition, was in residency at caldera in 2014, and has played in every electrogals festival since 1995.

albums from pyr
pyr263 – meduse

web presences
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soundcloud