Talking Earth with Christopher Corbell

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Mon, 01/18/2016 - 10:00pm to 11:00pm
Talking Earth with Christopher Corbell
Camille Perry hosts. Her guest will be local poet, musician, and composer Christopher Corbell, bringing poetry AND music to Talking Earth. His layered sonnets come to life in a whole new way when shared with his guitar. You really don't want to miss this hour with a genius!
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As a performer, Christopher Corbell has been part of the Portland indie scene for over a decade, performing his original songs and compositions at a variety of venues including Mississippi Studios, The Waypost, The Star Theater, Vie de Boheme, The Jade Lounge, Valentine’s, The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, The Someday Lounge, Acme, and The Towne Lounge.

Corbell has also performed with local indie and rock bands at many Portland venues including Berbati’s, Doug Fir, E.J.’s, The Fez, Kelly’s Olympian, The Know, and The White Eagle Saloon.

As a producer Corbell has realized ambitious underground-classical performances including Viva’s Holiday: An Opera in One Act at the Star Theater (a three-night premiere run) and ticketed Classical Revolution PDX performances at Holocene (“A Marriage of True Minds”), The Star Theater (“Decomposer’s Night” and “Summer Showcase”), and Vie de Boheme (“Bachxing Day”).

Corbell’s latest project: Sonnets is a fusion of songwriting, poetry, music composition, and solo performance. In a set of works that will become a full-length album in 2016, the familiar song structure of folk and pop is replaced by a classical-composition “through-composed” approach which sets each song’s text (an original 14-line sonnet) into a unique musical realization.

The works are created not by compositional algorithm (like ye olde 20th century “serious music”) but rather by meditative expression and interpretation grounded in lyrical songwriting. Corbell’s voice is at once crafted and organic, supported by adroit guitar work and arrangement sensibilities honed in chamber music, art-song, and opera as well as indie-acoustic and rock bands.

Corbell’s live performances of Sonnets focus on full experience of the works, usually supported by reciting of the text in addition to performance of the songs. This makes performances from Sonnets engaging for a wide variety of audiences, from indie acoustic fans to chamber music audiences to art gallery crowds and literary communities. Supplemental art-song material may also be included in performances featuring guest singers and original settings of poems by the likes of Rainer Maria Rilke, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Issa, Catullus, and Baudelaire.
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