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Chris Armstrong has been a drummer/percussionist for over 38 years. He has a BFA and MFA in World Music from CalArts where he studied music from India, Africa and Indonesia. He studied Ethnomusicology and Systematic Musicology at UCLA and took classes and private lessons in Afro-Latin music at Cal State L.A. He has performed with several African drumming and dance companies and recorded African drumming for Survivor: Africa, a CBS Steven King production, Ghanaian Master Drummer Alfred Ladzekpo's CD "Hosu - Horsu," and Disney Studios. He has studied extensively with African master drummers from Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, and Ivory Coast in the US as well as in Ivory Coast, West Africa, and is currently working on arrangements for a recording of his djembe drumming group, Djembe Nova. Chris has performed and recorded percussion and drum-set with numerous pop, jazz and world music groups in Phoenix, Nashville and Los Angeles. He has also been playing percussion from North and South India since 1979, which will be featured on an upcoming recording of his world-percussion music called Indica Plexus. With 30 years teaching experience, Chris continues to teach and perform for the CalArts Community Arts Partnership and ArtsCOOL programs, has many private students and has given many African and Indian drumming workshops in high schools and colleges. He is currently composing music for future recordings and records percussion and creates atmospheric sound designs for TV and indie film soundtracks. Chris is also designing a new kind of hand-drum and drumming method that combines concepts and techniques from many different cultures into a new eclectic hand-drumming style. Chris also has been a computer programmer, studied artificial intelligence (particularly neural modeling) at ASU and has dabbled in several different martial arts for over 35 years. |
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