Christopher C. Evans
Hi, my name is Chris and thanks for checking out my website. If you just want to know about my academic pedigree, click here. If you want to know about what makes me tick, read further.
ME, in a nutshell
First, know that I'm a curious person, in almost all ways. Second, I tend to be very focused and enthusiastic at whatever I am doing. Third, and perhaps most importantly, I've been extremely lucky to have the opportunity to work with and learn from many amazing people (I've provided links wherever I can).
Music
Growing up, I was fascinated by technology and computers (the Apple II series!), but I lost myself in music. I was enthralled by the sonics of rock and roll, the cathartic emotions of heavy metal, and the intellectual intricacies of jazz. While I started playing clarinet in middle school, I found my passion for guitar. From the obscure chord progressions in jazz, to the sheer sonic power of an electric guitar running through a Mesa-Boogie half-stack set on 11, I was hooked. Eventually, I began studying jazz guitar at the University of New Hampshire. There, I began to ask: How do you make a rock-guitar sound that way? How does it fit into a song? How can we balance these sounds to make a recording? All the way down to: what, fundamentally, makes good music?
Music Production and Engineering
As I became a better musician, the question of "how do you make good music?" loomed. This curiousity lead me to persue music at Berklee College of Music. As a Music Production and Engineer (MP&E) major, I learned the art of recording and, more importantly, producing. I need to side-track slightly now because "producing" is a decidedly vague term. The act of "producing" can entail everything from writing songs, to rehearsing a band, to demanding take after take of recording, to adjusting every knob in the final mix to get it just right. At the same time, "producing" can be as simple as finding the right "stuff" (song, musicians, and sound engineers) and letting it unfold. The answer to "how do you make good music?" is focused on your audience.
l, and later drums in high school, but jazz and rock guitar became my focus.
Add academic stuff later (focusing on how it was a way to explore and flipping the usual "academic pedigree stuff first").