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Cigar Box Guitar
I've always been fascinated by early American music. People have been making guitar based instruments out of all kinds of things for a long time. I'm most fascinated by the resourcefulness of primarily black blues musicians in the States who were making two, three or four string guitars out of cigar boxes.
At one point I was scoring a video game and met Dan Sleep, a programmer who makes Cigar Box Guitars. We got in touch and he made a few for me. I have a couple custom made Cigar Box Guitars, and they have served as a mystery sauce in my film scoring.
16 Toddler
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Goodbye Brooklyn (featuring bone pick & slide on cigar box guitar) from 5X5
1:34
3 Fish School (Part 1) _ Roll Play
2:54
35 Ominous Chains (The Trojan Women)
1:04
Biography
Sundance Fellow Christopher North (he/him, b 1969) is an award winning composer (Film, Theater, Dance and the Concert Stage), singer/songwriter (eclectic albums, songs for children’s TV and placements in Films), multi-instrumentalist (Carnegie Hall, Newport Folk Festival, CBGBs, Grammy award-winning recordings), conductor (Hollywood Chamber Orchestra debut, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space) and producer. A Texan in NYC since 1997, he’s thriving in Brooklyn with over 20 genre crossing albums, scores to over 60 films (inc. award-winning and Grammy Nominated) and a growing opus of arts songs, chamber music and symphonic works. An enthusiastic educator and Assistant Professor in the Berklee College of Music Songwriting Department, he has also taught at the 92nd St Y since 1997. As a freelance sideman, he has played bass for Quincy Jones, with The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) and Rosanne Cash, in orchestras and on Broadway. He’s been heard as a singer (in choirs with the NY Philharmonic, on Grammy Award Winning Recordings), whistler (for Disney) and multi-instrumentalist on countless scores, albums, video games and commercials. A 2015 Sundance Institute Lab Fellow, collaborating brings out his best, for which VARIETY says he's a "notable asset” to work “well served by a fine soundtrack.” His favorite creation is his teenager Koi and his hobbies include painting, photography, and walking in cemeteries.