Chris Sies<\/a> is a percussionist and sound artist who seeks to bring visceral sonic and performative experiences to diverse audiences. A unique performer with \u201cvirtuoso flair” (Detroit Free Press), Chris has appeared with such groups as New Music Detroit, The National Arab Orchestra, Man Forever, So Percussion, The Black Earth Ensemble, My Brightest Diamond, and the Fulcrum Point New Music Project, among many others. As a composer and collaborative artist, Sies has worked in many facets including dance, performance art, and multimedia with works presented by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), The Percussive Arts Society, The American College Dance Association, The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Detroit\u2019s Strange Beautiful Music, the Princeton Sound Kitchen, and The Bowling Green New Music Festival. Chris\u2019s music lives at the crossroads of the academic avante garde, DIY rock, and power electronic genres with his music being described as an “aural assault” (TEMPO), possessing a “searing intensity” (College Music Symposium) while focussing on the audience’s listening experience and psychoacoustic phenomenon that sound can elicit. Chris is the percussionist and technical director with the cross-continental powerhouse ensemble Latitude 49, with recordings on New Amsterdam Records, Furious Artisans, and New Focus Recordings. His additional projects include ARCHISMS with long-time friend and producer Sam Cooper, and the Willo Collective, a percussion-heavy venture dedicated to creating collaborative and interdisciplinary work. Chris also performs under the moniker S[K]IES – a solo project dedicated to psychedelic noise-metal through relentless experiments with percussion and electronics, focussing on sounds and structures inspired from altered states of consciousness.<\/p>\nAs a passionate educator over the years, Chris has instructed a wide body of students, holding faculty positions at Triton College (River Grove, IL), The People\u2019s Music School (Chicago, IL), The Chicago Academy for the Arts, Baylor University (Waco, TX), and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), where he directed the Modern Percussion Lab from 2020-2022. Previous students have won international competitions, attended various music festivals, and gone on to become educators at universities, public schools, freelancers, and creators forming their own projects and original work while investing in their communities. 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