Chuck Bettis is a sound scientist and audio activist who utilizes both
electronics and voice in his sonic protest research. Bettis was raised in the
fertile HarDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore’s enigmatic avant garde
gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York’s downtown musical tribe. He has
performed with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Jamie Saft, and Afrirampo to name a few. Some
of the musicians Bettis has recorded and played live with are as follows; Ikue Mori,
Nautical Almanac, Audrey Chen, Yellow Swans, Toshio Kajiwara, Mick Barr, etc, plus a
long history of punk bands he was in (most notably the experimental punk band
Meta-matics as well as the enigmatic All Scars). Currently he is working on many of
his experimental projects such as Mossenek (duo with Mick Barr), Brown Wing
Overdrive (trio with Mikey IQ Jones & Derek Morton), Mudang Rouge (quartet with
Jerry Lim, Evan Rapport, Josh Blair), Period (trio with Mike Pride, Charlie Looker),
HellHoarse (duo with Brendan Murray), Pretty Clicks (duo with Berangere Maximin) and
Chatterblip (duo with Dafna Naphtali), in addition to improvising, recording, or
composing with an array of musicians from around the world.
