Score music for "Head-Side Up," written & directed by John Byford. 

Music composed by Chris Honett, performed & mixed by Chris (guitar) & Rebecca Honett (vox, harmonica, bass).

Rebecca: http://www.imdb.me/rebeccahonett
Chris: http://www.facebook.com/christopherjonhonett
Shameless Redhead: http://www.shamelessredhead.com/

Pavanne for a Lost Ocean

Live performance of "Fires" by the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, March 2015, Saunders Theatre, Harvard University. 

Exceptionally conducted, as always, by Eric Hewitt. Many many thanks.

Live recording with basic room mics. Also, the tempo in this performance is significantly faster than that of the recording on the CD.

Fires - March 2015 live performance recording

Highway Suite - movement 2, incomplete. 

Voice, harmonica, keyboard, drum programming, & spoken word. Composed, performed, recorded, and produced by Chris & Rebecca Honett.

Excepts from "Poem of LA At Night," written and read by Chris Honett. 

Movement II Incomplete 053115 (Call to Prayer / Whale Song Processional)

You Are My Sunshine

Who Let the Dogs Out: (Cover.) A horrible song re-appropriated... Performed by Rebecca Honett & Ryan Gonzales. Voice (Rebecca), mandolin (Ryan), ukulele (Ryan), keyboard (Ryan), electric bass (Ryan), drum programming (Ryan), & percussion (Ryan). Produced by Rocco Guarino, Chris Honett, Ryan Gonzales, & Rebecca Honett.  Music for the original short film "Taking the Lead." (2014)

WLTDO

Amazing Grace: Voice alone (Rebecca). (Cover.) Impromptu home recording. 

Amazing Grace

Music Box Clockwork for a Summer Evening: Synth harp / keyboard (with ocean sounds recorded in Santa Cruz July 2015). By Rebecca & Chris Honett. (Excerpted from the Highway Suite.) (2015)

Music Box Clockwork for a Summer Evening

(2011)Experimental rock track I had fun putting together a few years ago. Never found any vocals, but here it is anyway. An opportunity to be loud and experiment with some less-than-traditional vocal sounds. (Yes, it is all me screaming in there.)

Gtr, keyboard, drum programming, vox (Chris Honett). 

(Watch for the battle between 4 and the big 7 starting around 2:45.)

The Pedestrian

Morning Song (2011) - written & performed by Chris Honett.

RAW & ROUGH home recording using dad's old classical guitar - 041911.

Morning Song

(2012) Another loud experiment. 

Vox (sung: Rebecca / breathing, screams, & noises: Chris),
guitars, drum programming, homemade bowed instrument.

Hatchet

Fires, nocturne concerto for two percussion soloists, large wind band, and various other monsters (2008) for large wind band with soloists / composed by Chris Honett, performed by the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Eric Hewitt cond. (live recording with some studio mixing). Released on the CD "Deviation."

Fires, nocturne concerto for two percussion soloists, large wind band, and various other monsters

The Performers Need Not Be Masked [Music to Play Chess To, Parts I & II: I. Still Music, for piano alone (1999, 2006), II. Exit Music, concertina for cello and eight others (2004, 2006)] Part I: for solo piano; Part II: for amplified cello solo with piccolo, bass clarinet, bass saxophone, piano, percussion, violin, viola, & cello. Performed by White Rabbit. Live recording. 

The Performers Need Not Be Masked (Music to Play Chess To, Parts I and II)

Transmission 49 (2012). Live improvisation by Rebecca (vox, grandpa's harmonica) & Chris Honett (electric guitar). Written and performed spontaneously.

Transmission 49

Chris is a musician, experimental art music composer, writer, independent producer, and homesteader.

Throughout his compositional work, Chis is committed to a methodical and uncompromising approach to contemporary art music. Momentum-driven and often heavily rhythmic, his aggressive and highly considered works fluidly integrate a diverse continuum of pitch and noise-based materials within a deeply personal approach to musical development. 

A PhD recipient in music composition from Harvard University under advisor Julian Anderson, Chris has studied with Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Lee Hyla, Joshua Fineberg, Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku, Magnus Lindberg, Yehudi Wyner, and William Kraft. His music has been performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, Counter)Induction, the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, and numerous other groups.

Chris is co-author of “The Listen,” a book geared toward anyone curious about new music regardless of his or her musical education. He has held administrative roles in New York City, San Francisco, and Boston, having served as Executive Director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Executive Director of the Manhattan Sinfonietta, Director of the Harvard Group for New Music, and owner of a small international NYC-based music business. In 2008, he produced the U.S. Premiere of Martin Matalon’s score to Fritz Lang’s "Metropolis" in Manhattam with live projection, quadrophonic sound, and 16 of New York City's top musicians. 

Chris and his wife, performer, musician, and producer Rebecca Honett, also direct Shameless Redhead Productions, which, while still located in LA, produced, filmed, and assisted in the editing of a number of short films, promotional works, reels, and the webseries Starving in Hollywood, which Chris also co-directed. Additionally, they served as co-producers of the Unexpected Hollywood Film Festival.

Maintaining a background in education, Chris has taught at the college, high school, and junior high levels, and has worked in elementary educational care as well as with developmentally disabled adults.

In March 2016, Chris and Rebecca entirely uprooted their lives and relocated from LA to the foothills of Appalacia, in southern Ohio, where they are currently living as homesteaders (http://elsewhereliving.blogspot.com/) with their exceptional dogs, Ozwald and Raddish.

Chris was born in 1977, in Hayward, California.

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