David Cross (musician)

David Cross ( born April 23, 1949 in Turnchapel at Plymouth, England) is an English musician and music producer. He is best known as a violinist for his role in the progressive rock band King Crimson 1972-1975 ( on the albums Larks ' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, Red and USA). He also plays viola, mellotron and electric piano.

2.1 Solo
2.2 By King Crimson
2.3 David Cross band
2.4 With Electric Chamber Music
2.5 With radius
2.6 collaborations

Biography

Early years

His father was a church and theater organist and played piano in dance bands. David Cross began studying violin at the age of nine years. He got his first instrument for £ 1 from the thrift store. In high school, he attended the Advanced Placement Latin, Greek and Ancient History. At this time he began with improvisation. He earned a degree in "Music and Drama ", was head of the college orchestra and formed a folk-rock band.

Musical career

From about 1970 he started across the UK and to work as a session musician in various folk and rock formations. In 1972 he joined King Crimson, with whom he recorded four albums and toured extensively through Europe, Canada and the United States attended.

In 1975 he recorded the album Forever Blowing Bubbles for Virgin Records with Clear Light. He now worked as a composer, producer, music director and actor. He formed the rock - improvisational band Ascend, with whom he played in the UK and on the Nancy Jazz Festival. In the theater he worked for the Royal Court Theatre, Royal Court Upstairs, Bush Theatre, Wyndham 's Theatre and Arts Meeting Place.

In the late 1970s seemed Cross in Dublin. He organized sessions, concerts and founded a 12 -piece band. He worked as a freelancer for the Players Theatre Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Project Arts Centre, Dublin. He initiated improvisation workshops at the Project Arts Centre, which were sent on RTE Television. After working for the BBC, Music Box, ICA Theatre, Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company and directed productions for the Theatre Royal Bristol, Buxton Festival Theatre, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh and Bristol Arnolfini Arts Centre.

Also in the 1980s, Cross has been very active as a musician, composer, producer, musical director and theater director. He has performed with various jazz groups and with their own rock band (concerts in the UK and on the Le Mans Jazz Festival). With the album Sightseeing (1988 ) started the recordings with his band radius. He began increasingly to record solo albums, all of which were again old associates were involved from the King Crimson - environment (Robert Fripp, John Wetton, Peter Sinfield, Richard Palmer - James and Peter Hammill ), so on his debut album, Memos from Purgatory (1989).

In the 1990s, cross produced several dance and theater performances. 1993 to 1995 he earned his Master of Arts in " Performing Arts" ( interdisciplinary performances, papers on structure in post- modern art music, the hermeneutics of rock journalism ). King Crimson released several live recordings, on which he was involved ( Frame by Frame, 1992, The Great Deceiver, 1994, The Night Watch, 1997, The Beat Club Bremen 1972, 1999 and others). He presented the solo albums The Big Picture (1992) and Exiles (1998) and in 1999 founded his own label Noisy Records. He also took with Danielle Dax, Darling Buds, Jade Warrior, Dean Carter and Joe Hisaishi.

2000 appeared Civilizations, the fifth album from radius to Noisy Records. Cross participated in interdisciplinary performances with Verity Blackman (dance) and Maurizio Rocchi Pio (painting) in part. Since 2001 he is Professor of Music Theory at London Metropolitan University. 2004 - 2005 he gave a solo violin concertos, including in London, Tokyo, Osaka and Athens. In 2005 he published in collaboration with Mick Paul and Richard Palmer - James Album Closer Than Skin. In 2006 he recorded the album Unbounded with the Japanese singer and pianist Naomi Maki. He also worked with Haruhiko Tsuda, Shuichi Chino Korekyojin and in Japan and Chris Stassinopoulos in Greece. In 2012 he worked with nectar on her album A Spoonful Of Time.

Discography

Solo

Memos from Purgatory (1989 )
The Big Picture (1992 )
Testing to Destruction (1994 )
Exiles (1998)
Closer Than Skin ( 2005)

With King Crimson

Larks ' Tongues in Aspic (1973 )
Starless and Bible Black ( 1974)
Red (1974 )
USA ( 1975)
Frame by Frame (1992 )
The Great Deceiver (1994 )
The Night Watch ( 1997)
The Beat Club Bremen 1972 (1999)
Cirkus: The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson - Live ( 1999)
Collectors' King Crimson, Vol 1 [ Pony Canyon ] (1999)
Live in Central Park, NYC '74 (2000)
A Beginners ' Guide to the King Crimson Collectors' Club (2000)
Live in Mainz 1974 (2001)
Collectors' King Crimson, Vol 4 (2001)
Collectors' King Crimson, Vol 7 (2003)
Collectors' King Crimson, Vol 8 (2004)
Live in Heidelberg, 1974 (2005)
The Collectable King Crimson, Vol 1 (2006 )
The Collectors ' King Crimson, Vol 10 (2006)
The Condensed 21st Century Guide to King Crimson: 1969-2003 (2006)
Live in Kassel 1974 (2007)
Collector's Box, Vol 3: 1972-1974 (2007)
40th Anniversary Tour Box ( 2009)

David Cross band

Alive in the Underworld (2008)

With Electric Chamber Music

Navigator ( with Naomi Maki ) (2005 )
Unbounded ( with Naomi Maki ) (2006 )
English Sun ( with Andrew Keeling ) (2009 )

With radius

Public Services (1988 )
Elevation (1989 )
Measuring Arc (1990 )
There Is No Peace (1994 )
Severe Test: System Collusion (1995 )
Civilizations (2000)
Messuring Arc (2007)

Collaborations

Clear Light: Forever Blowing Bubbles ( 1975)
The Butterfly Ball (With Rod Edwards and Roger Hand ) ( 1975)
Paul Egan: Iceland of Dreams (1978 )
United Dairies: An Afflicted Man's Musica Box ( 1981)
Shock Headed Peters: Life Extinguisher (1986 )
Low Flying Aircraft: Low Flying Aircraft (1988 )
Dossier: Dossier (1990 )
Darling Buds: Crawdaddy (1990 )
Jade Warrior: Distant Echoes (1993 )
Rime of the Ancient Sampler: A Mellotron Compilation ( 1993)
Joe Hisaishi: Chijyoh no Rakuen (1994 )
Psychomuzak: Send ( 1997)
Schizoid Dimension: King Crimson Tribute ( 1997)
Nectar: A Spoonful Of Time (2012 )
Who Are You: An All- Star Tribute To The Who (2012 )

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