Chris Corsano
He’s 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.
Discography
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
Belladonna
by Chris Corsano, Scott Young & Ryley Walker
Blood Pressure
by Chris Corsano / Hot Cars Warp Records
Blue Shells
by Clandestine Trio
Catalytic Sound Festival 2023 – Chicago
from Dan Grzeca
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 2022, Chicago
from 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
Via Combusta
by Chris Corasno & Massimo Pupillo