Peter Chilvers (musician)
| Peter Chilvers | |
|---|---|
| Genres | electronic, minimalism, ambient, art rock, progressive rock, art pop, folk |
| Occupation(s) | software designer, musician, songwriter, sound designer |
| Instruments | keyboards, piano, laptop, guitar, bass guitar, double bass, Chapman Stick, programming, vocals, |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Burning Shed |
| Associated acts | A Marble Calm, Letka, Alias Grace, Brian Eno, Karl Hyde, Tim Bowness, No-Man, Henry Fool, Darkroom, Paul Goodwin |
| Website | peterchilvers |
Peter Chilvers is a Cambridgeshire-based British musician and software designer.
Chilvers has created several iPhone applications in collaboration with Brian Eno. As a musician, he is best known as a collaborator with Eno and with Tim Bowness, but has also worked with Karl Hyde, Natalie Imbruglia, Chris Martin and others. He is one of the three co-founders of the Burning Shed online record label (with Tim Bowness and Pete Morgan).
Chilvers has collaborated with Eno on several iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad generative music applications: Bloom, Scape and Air (available on the iTunes Store). He has also written a number of generative music soundtracks for the Creatures computer games released by Creature Labs.
Chilvers is a multi-instrumentalist who favours acoustic piano, electric piano, laptop computer, assorted keyboards and fretless bass guitar but also plays Chapman Stick, double bass, acoustic guitar and electric guitar. He is also a programmer, extending this skill to electronic percussion parts and extensive electronic orchestrations.
Chilvers has released four albums under his own name – He Wrote This (a selection of mostly instrumental pieces played on bass guitars, double bass and Chapman Stick), Stormwatcher (the soundtrack to an "imaginary film version" of Graham Joyce's fantasy novel of the same name), Free (a virally marketed CD-R release of predominantly ambient pieces) and Piano (a collection of solo piano pieces). He is also the leader of A Marble Calm – an ambient-inclined music collective centred on himself and reclusive marimba/vibraphone player Jon Hart. Other participants have included Theo Travis, Tim Bowness, Sandra O'Neill, Steve Adey and Cambridge experimental-country guitarist Rob Jackson. This project has released two albums – Surfacing and Blue Turns To Grey.
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