Chris Vine

Chris Vine (Born, England 1954) is an artist and musician who studied fine art in Britain and the USA. He began playing improvised music in his teens as part of the UK free improvisation movement and was associated with the downtown music scenes of New York and Washington D.C. in the early 1980’s, working with composers such as multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp, drummer Bobby Previte and composer Bob Boilen. He formed the Heat Poets in partnership with the Anglo-Welsh open field poet Chris Torrance in 1985. Vine was guitarist with Ted Milton’s cult punk jazz group Blurt throughout the 1990’s. At this time, he was active in Welsh Experimental Theatre as a sound designer and composer, working with companies such as The Centre for Performance Research and Earthfall.