Chris Heenan

Chris Heenan lives in Los Angeles and Stuttgart, Germany. He plays alto saxophone, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet and analog synthesizer. Some current projects include Team Up, a trio with guitarist Jeremy Drake and a revolving third member percussionist, a duo with Berlin-based percussionist and light artist Michael Vorfeld, a duo with NYC-based guitarist Chris Forsyth and Phantom Limb and Bison with Chris Forsyth, Jaime Fennelly (electronics) and Shawn Hansen (synthi / radio feedback). Some current playing partners include trumpeter Birgit Ulher, percussionist Michael Griener, vocalist Ute Wassermann, trumpeter/ Electronicist Ernst Karel and contrabassist Alexander Frangenheim. He is currently a fellow-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany.

 

DISCOGRAPHY

 

2006|     

Half Cloud, Half Plain, Duo with Michael Vorfeld, Esquilo

Analog Synthesizer Compilation, Experimental Musical Research Records

Phantom Limb & Bison, compact disc, Evolving Ear Records

Solo, 3-inch compact disc, Experimental Musical Research Records

Los Angeles Reeds, compilation, compact disc, Reify Recordings

“Ashes”, Deconstructive Music, Forsyth Heenan, compilation, compact disc, Moremars Records

 

2005 |

“Eagle Rocker”, Secular Steel, Nels Cline, compilation, compact disc, Cuneiform Records

2004 |

line space line: solos 2002, compilation, compact disc, line space line Records

Rich West’s Bedouin Hornbook, compact disc, pfMentum Record

Mount Washington with Martin Blume, Jeremy Drake, Tucker Dulin, Wolfgang Fuchs, Anne LeBaron, Torsten Müller and Philipp Wachsmann, compact disc, Reify Recordings

Forsyth Heenan, duo with guitarist Chris Forsyth, compact disc, Reify Recordings

Team Up, with Jeremy Drake and Stephen Flinn, compact disc, Reify Recordings

2003  |

In The Garden, Yusef Lateef / Adam Rudolph Go: Organic Orchestra, compact disc, Meta Records

Web of Light, Adam Rudolph and Go: Organic Orchestra, compact disc, Meta Records

2002 |

Team Up, with Jeremy Drake and Brian Christopherson, limited edition, 3-inch cd-r, Moving Lines Records

Go: Organic Orchestra: 1, Adam Rudolph, compact disc, Meta Records

 

1998 |

FHMZ Quartet, quartet with Robert Falesch, Robert Marsh, Michael Zerang, compact disc, ZeroEggzie Recordings