name: forest creatures christenson
bands: pretty balanced,
solarist,
starving goliath
instruments: drums, violin, electronics, bass
current location: columbus, ohio
I started writing music when I was a tiny kid. I was supposed to practice my violin but I'd end up improvising and
writing my own songs for hours on end. I even played one of them at a recital when I was 6 or 7-ish... it was called
"Enemy Anemone". "Anemone" was my favorite word back then, as I recall. Then, I wrote a multi-movement woodwind
quintet called "Quetzel Songs" because I really thought Quetzals were nice birds, and it was performed at OSU's
Newark campus and at my elementary school, in a gym assembly (I was in third grade). Eventually I got a computer and
started making electronic music. It didn't take me long before I was making songs based on lawn-sprinkler samples
and cosmic reverb. I think that all my life I'd spent trying to find a way to create and manipulate the sounds that
I wanted to hear, and the computer finally gave me a way to accomplish that. It eventually created in my imagination
a whole new pallette of sound color and texture that I had never imagined before. Therefore, most of my work up to
this point have been electronic compositions, although through my schooling as a composition major I am becoming more
and more familiar with acoustic writing and the infinite sonic possibilities offered within that realm.
I'm in a couple rock bands called Starving Goliath, and Pretty Balanced. Both of these have albums out, and both of
them have second albums on the way. I sometimes work at Workbook Studio on Wall St. in Downtown Columbus, OH. I also
work at the Columbus zoo! I am also the sound tech and composer for dance company Anatomical Scenario. I attend
Capital University's Conservatory of Music. My birthday is August 15, 1988.