Chris O’Connor sees himself as essentially an improvising musician, allowing him to partake in as many kinds of music as he gets the opportunity to. Chris has played with many local musicians and a growing number of visiting ones. While based in Wellington he often played at The Space when not touring. He played with a band called Sanctus in Wellington, and joined up with Cloudboy for a time touring to Europe with them in 2002. He met and worked with many other artists while he was there.
His work has seen him collaborating with theatre maker Warwick Broadhead and also with choreographer Alyx Duncan. Other projects have included cymbal duties with the NZ Dominion Centenary Brass Band and Andrew McMillan's New Pacific Music Ensemble.
Chris still does a lot of improv (Vitamin S). He is a ubiquitous and busy musician and can be found playing in Don McGlashan's band the Seven Sisters, and also with SJD and Flip Grater ( Flip Grater vid). He also works with Stephen Bain in his theatre projects.
Chris has performed with Genevieve in a spoken word context now and then over the last decade, recently collaborating with her on the soundtrack for her short film Stasis.
Chris lives in Auckland with his partner Tahi and their baby girl Fern.
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