

Chris Corsano
Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is an upstate NY-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and noise music since the late 1990’s. He began a long-standing, high-energy musical partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. Their style, which they occasionally refer to with (semi-)tongue-in-cheek humor as “The Hated Music”, combines modern free-jazz’s ecstatic collectivist spirit and the urgency and intensity of hardcore punk. A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to develop his solo music–a dynamic, spontaneously-composed amalgam of extended techniques for drum set and non-percussive instruments of his own making: e.g. bowed violin strings stretched across drum heads, modified reed instruments, and stockpiles of resonant metal. In February 2006, Corsano released his first solo recording, The Young Cricketer, and toured extensively throughout Europe, USA, Australia, and Japan. He spent 2007 and ’08 as the drummer on Björk’s Volta world tour, all the while weaving in shows and recordings on his days off with the likes of Evan Parker, Virginia Genta, C. Spencer Yeh, and Jandek. Moving back to the U.S. in 2009, Corsano returned focus to his own projects, including a duo with Michael Flower, Vampire Belt (with Bill Nace), Rangda (with Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny) and his solo work, further expanded in its use of contact microphones and synthesizers. In 2017, he received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist Award.


A View of the Moon (from the Sun) By Mette Rasmussen & Chris Corsano

All the Ghosts at Once By Mette Rasmussen & Chris Corsano Duo

An Idea in Everything By David Greenberger / Glenn Jones / Chris Corsano

Another Dull Dawn By Chris Corsano

asbestos and little rain By Chris Corsano & Pak Yan Lau

Belladonna By Chris Corsano, Scott Young & Ryley Walker

Blood Pressure By Chris Corsano / Hot Cars Warp Records

Blue Shells By Clandestine Trio

Corsano, Maranha & Youngs By Chris Corsano, David Maranha & Richard Youngs

Cut By Chris Corsano / Hot Cars Warp Records

Friendly Pants By Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi

From Wolves To Whales By Nate Wooley / Dave Rempis / Pascal Niggenkemper / Chris Corsano

Hellraiser By Icepick

Holy, Holy By Brandon Lopez / Chris Corsano / Sam Yulsman

It’s Magnificent, but It Isn’t War By Cold Bleak Heat

Key Cutter By Vampire Can't

Kingston Solo Trio Quintet [CAA-050] By Timothy Angulo, Laura Cocks, Chris Corsano, Fred Lonberg-Holm & Luke Stewart

Mezzaluna [CAA-026] By Chris Corsano

Momentum 1 : Stone By Ken Vandermark

No Place to Fall By Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano

Old Smoke By Brandon Lopez

Parallelogram By Thurston Moore & John Moloney // Bishop, Orcutt & Corsano

Poster of the Catalytic Sound Festival 2023, Chicago By Dan GrzecaFrom Dan Grzeca

Psychic Armour By Chris Corsano & Hot Cars Warp Records

Quand Fond La Neige, Où Va Le Blanc? By Christine Abdelnour / Chris Corsano

Rare Wood By Sunburned Hand of the Man

Salt Task By Chris Corsano, Sylvie Courvoisier & Nate Wooley

Sannyasi By Paul Flaherty / Greg Kelley / Chris Corsano

School of the Flower By Six Organs Of Admittance

Seven Storey Mountain II By Nate Wooley

Seven Storey Mountain III & IV By Nate Wooley

Seven Storey Mountain VI By Nate Wooley

So Prettly Prattly Pollylogue By Nico Dockx

Spinning Jenny By Daniel Levin / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten / Chris Corsano

Strandwal By From Wolves to Whales

The Beloved Music By Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano

The Dead C vs Rangda By The Dead C / Rangda

The Dim Bulb By Steve Baczkowski / Chris Corsano / Paul Flaherty

The Young Cricketer By Chris Corsano

This Is Our Language By Rodrigo Amado / Joe McPhee / Kent Kessler / Chris Corsano
