Charles K. Johnson
671B 24th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
cirrusoxide@gmail.com
www.cirrusoxide.com
Select Discography
with Idyll Swords:
• Idyll Swords CD (The Communion Label) 1999
• Idyll Swords II CD (The Communion Label) 2000
• Purposeful Availment CD/EP (Threelobed Recordings) 2002
with Shark Quest:
• Gods and Devils CD (Merge Records) 2004
as Pykrete:
• Over Hylaster CD-R (Cirrus Oxide) 2004
• Southern Man + Pykrete No More Love to Give CD (Phaserprone) 2006
with Micro-East Collective:
• Fabric CD (Umbrella Recordings) 2001
as Ivanovich:
• ”at the end of the day” on CD accompanying Badaboom Gramaphone magazine 1997
• Solo Guitar CD (Amish Records) 1999
with Spatula:
• Even the Thorny Acacia CD (Jesus Christ) 1994
• Medium Planers and Matchers CD (Jesus Christ) 1995
• Under the Veil of Health LP/CD (Squealer Music) 1996
• Despina by Land CD (Squealer music) 1998
as Chuck Johnson:
• “Duet” with marc faris on Transmissions oo1 (transmissions/ wxyc) 1999
• ”Closing Credits” on And to the Disciples that Remain compilation CD (Amish Records) 2006
Film Scores
• Tobacco Money Feeds My Family (directed by Cynthia Hill) 2003
• (with Shark Quest) Monster Road (directed by Brett Ingram) 2003
• Gillian (directed by Joanne Hershfield) 2005
• The Guestworker (directed by Cynthia Hill) 2005
• (with Shark Quest) Rocaterrania (directed by Brett Ingram) 2008
• With These Hands (directed by Matt Barr) 2008
• Crave (Jennifer Ruff) 2009 (in production)
Select Festivals and Performances
• improvised music performances with Eugene Chadbourne, Frank Gratkowski, Morgan Guberman, Peter Kowald, Scott Rosenberg, Dennis Gonzalez
• Transmissions oo1(Chapel Hill, NC) 1998
• Transmissions oo2 (Chapel Hill, NC) 1999
• (with Idyll Swords) Transmissions oo3 (Chapel Hill, NC) 2000
• Transmissions oo3.4 (Chicago) 2000
• (with Spatula) Tropic of Metallotronic Festival (Washington DC) 1997
• (with Superchunk) performed live score to Teinosuke Kinugasa’s 1927 silent film A Page of Madness - San Francisco International Film Festival 2002
• (with Randy Ward) quadraphonic live sound performances in various venues – July-October 2003
• (with Mike Walters) BENT 2004 (New York)
• (with Bart Moyers) interactive robotic music installation at Loom Exhibition (Pittsboro, NC) 2004
• (with Shark Quest) performed live score to short films by Bruce Bickford at Witherspoon Theater, NC State University (Raleigh, NC) 2002
• Soundscape Movement Festival (Chapel Hill, NC) 2006
• Signal+Noise Festival (Vancouver, BC) 2007
• (with Pauline Oliveros) Festival of New American Music (Sacramento, CA) 2007
• (with Pauline Oliveros) World Flute Festival (Oakland, CA) 2007
• (with Miya Masaoka and Pauline Oliveros) Greenwich House School of Music (New York, NY) 2008
• PastForward 25th Anniversary Concert Series, The LAB (San Francisco, CA) 2009
• Music for People and Thingamajigs (San Francisco, CA) 2009
• (with Suzanne Thorpe and Philip White) Diapason Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) 2009
Teaching
• Guest artist and lecturer - N.C. State University Creativity Project, 2004
• Lab instructor - Audio Recording Techniques, Intro to Electronic Music, Graduate seminar in Electronic Music Performance - Mills College, 2007-2009
• Guest lecturer - Musc80c at UC Santa Cruz on David Tudor and live electronic music, 2009
• Private tutoring in Pro Tools, Logic, MaxMSP/Jitter
• Private tutoring in fingerstyle guitar
Awards and Commissions
• Comprehensivism commissioned by Duke University’s CSMG ensemble (now known as pulsoptional) for their ”Synaesthesia: Echoes of Black Mountain College”Fall Concert 2000
• Orange County, NC Arts Commission travel grant 2007
• Full Teaching Assistantship at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College 2007-2009
• Paul Merritt Henry Prize for excellence in the musical composition for string instruments, Mills College, 2009
• Meet the Composer Creative Connections grant, 2009
Education
• M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media - studied with Chris Brown, James Fei, Roscoe Mitchell, Laetitia Sonami - Mills College (Oakland, CA) 2009
• B.A. in Psychology and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1991
Other Relevant Professional Experience
• Systems Analyst (IT support and systems administration) – Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research 1999- 2007
• Freelance audio engineering and production - specializing in experimental and improvised music and location recording, with work credited on commercial recordings and film soundtracks 1998-present
• Curator – “Shortwave” series of experimental and improvised music 1997-2001
• Technical Director – Transmissions Festival (North Carolina and Chicago) 1999-2000
• Teaching Assistant - Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College (Oakland, CA) 2007-2009
