Chris Meyer's Alias Zone

Can’t wait for this inaugural event of a new music series for electroacoustic and electronic music! Come out Saturday 2/21 to FUSION’s Cell Theater and experience it with me! Unique format! I’ll be playing a retrospective #celloquacious set! @sandiasoundscapes thanks to @alias_zone and @five12inc for starting this new series and inviting me to be part of it!🙏🏼✨ @fusiontheatrecompany

The energy is hypnotic at FUSION | 708—Alias Zone’s soundworld paired with John-Mark Collins’ visuals has everyone floating in that experimental pocket. #CreativeVibes #NMArts

Chris Meyer layering rhythms + atmospheres at FUSION | 708 while John-Mark Collins’ visuals bend right into the music—like a living sculpture. #AliasZone #ArtInMotion #abqarts

Alias Zone just opened the night at FUSION | 708 @fusiontheatrecompany with deep, pulsing textures and stunning video installations by John-Mark Collins. Total sonic immersion. #LiveArt #Soundscape #fusion708

@davidforlano and I will be performing in Albuquerque, NM on Saturday Dec. 6. Ticket link in bio. I'm very excited about this performance as we will finally get to explore using a quadraphonic sound system with the performers in the middle and the audience surrounding us. We are currently playing around with dividing up the sonic/musical elements and placing them around the 4 speakers. Chris Meyer @alias_zone will be performing before us and we will have live video projection by John-Mark Collins @jmcjedi This is also a CD release party for David and I, with the release of "Select Habits of Invetebrates" on hand. You don't want to miss this if you are within 100 miles. :) Tickets here or link in bio: /event/451462/trey-gunn-and-david-forlano

One of my projects this past year has been working on a music compilation in celebration of Alan R Pearlman’s 100th birthday. The 36 tracks on this compilation - old and new (including a remix of my track The Gathering Storm) - all employ ARP synthesizers in prominent ways. This project was the brainchild of Steve Roach, who asked me to be co-music director for it. Steve also recruited Robert Rich to master it, and Sam Rosenthal of Projekt Records to help it reach a wider audience. Artists on it (aside from Steve and myself) include Martin Gore, John Foxx, Mark Isham, Jeff Rona, Drew Schlesinger + David Torn, Michael Brückner, Craig Padilla, Lisa Bella Donna, Panic Girl, JG Thirlwell, Rupert Greenall, DJ CherishTheLuv, Synsor, Don Slepian, LaMar Mitchell, and many others - with thanks to Dina Pearlman for recruiting many of those artists. The 36-track compilation is available at name-your-own-price for a limited time on Bandcamp; a 2-CD set with many of the tracks (also sequenced by Steve) is $20 and will be available in a few weeks (pre-order now). �The link for more info: /album/soul-of-the-machine-a-celebration-of-the-life-legacy-of-arp-founder-alan-r-pearlman-various-artists (or just go to Bandcamp and Search for Alan R - their page will be the top result).

In just under two weeks, I will be playing the Wavetrails Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As with last year, it will be in quadraphonic sound; this year the event is in a larger space so the stage will be pushed more to the middle of the room, to give an “in the round” experience for the audience. Also like last year, there will be be inventive live-generated video projections. More info at: / and click on “Venue Info” to see all what’s going on Friday and Saturday. (I am playing Friday night, and will be the second to last act, going on roughly 98:30 PM.) Direct ticket link: /form/252668123362154

Cyclical Magazine: September issue is now available. @alias_zone Download digital copy: /file/icixt36jktf5i95/Magazine_09-2025.pdf/file Read digital copy: /qori/mahx/ Bandcamp edition (PDF/AUDIO): /album/cyclical-magazine-16-pdf-audio-2 All issues: /magazine

It humbles me that my fellow musicians have been among the most supportive of my creations: "Chris Meyer’s latest album, Paradise Lost, takes listeners on a powerful journey, blending intricate soundscapes, beautiful rhythmic timbres and emotive melodies - from flying through the pulse and breath of a storm, to feeling the presence of an early dawn on a desert landscape, melting the past away. Shamanic rhythms dance with wind instruments and voices. It is deeply engaging and precisely crafted balance between complexity and simplicity that blend into an evolving flow of patterns and rich textures that form the thematic melody. Paradise Lost weaves together a story of a quiet yet powerful rebellion against entropy and decay. Stunningly visual where you can lose yourself in the journey without a care for the destination. It is like a shamanic walk in the desert, taking a barefoot walk with a prophet’s wisdom. An album not to be missed.” - Bart Hawkins Give it a listen (and maybe even get your own copy!) at: /album/paradise-lost (image here from one of the inside panels of the 6-panel DigiPak Lite for the CD; all of the panels are also included as a PDF with the downloaded version)

Among my travels during September, I am giving a presentation on the evolution of electronic musical instruments - focusing on the 1870s through 1960s - at the @sigalmusicmuseum in Greenville, South Carolina the afternoon of Sunday, September 21. I also hope to give a demonstration of my modern hybrid electronic music performance system. The presentation is free; registration is required at the following web page: /eventbrite-event/chris-meyer-of-alias-zone/ (for those viewing Instagram on a mobile device, go to sigalmusicmuseum.org - sigal, not signal, and .org, not .com - and follow the links for Calendar of Events) Sigal has an amazing collection of traditional acoustic musical instruments - so I feel I’m going somewhat into the lion’s den advocating for these young electronic instruments! But seeing the contrasts in their age - plus witnessing the evolution of traditional instruments in Sigal’s collection - really brings home how much evolution may still be ahead for electronic instruments. (Special thanks to Chris Stack helping make this happen.)

This month is dedicated to composing and rehearsing for a string of concerts I have coming up in September and October. I have my eye (and composer’s mindset) focused in particular on September 13/14, where I headline another edition of the wonderful “The Gatherings” concert series in Philadelphia with an extended ~75 minute set, with Orbital Decay starting off the evening. That same night I then move on to the WXPN studio and play an hour-long (2-3 AM) “ambient remix” live set as part of Chuck van Zyl’s long-running Star’s End program. More on The Gatherings event, including a link to tickets: /150gather.html More on Star’s End: /

This Saturday August 9 at 1 PM MDT (noon PDT, 3 PM EDT, 9 PM CEDT) I have a free “listening party” on Bandcamp for my new album Paradise Lost. To register, go to: /merch/paradise-lost-listening-party If you’ve not attended one of these before, you go to a web page at the appointed time, and the album plays straight through, with a chat box alongside it. What I do is type into the chat what each new sound, musical part, etc. is and how it was created to give you a peek behind the curtain of how an album like this is constructed. By the way, all of these pieces were originally performed and recorded live, with a few overdubs and a bit of editing in the studio later.