Peter Chilvers (musician)

Peter Chilvers is a musician and composer based in Ely, Cardiff.

He is a multi-instrumentalist favouring acoustic piano, electric piano, laptop computer, assorted keyboards and fretless bass guitar but also playing Chapman Stick, double bass, acoustic guitar and electric guitar. He is also a programmer, extending this skill to electronic percussion parts and extensive electronic orchestrations.

Chilvers has released four albums under his own name - "He Wrote This" (a selection of mostly instrumental pieces played on basses and Chapman Stick), "Stormwatcher" (the soundtrack to an "imaginary film version" of Graham Joyce's fantasy novel of the same name), "Free" (a virally-marketed CD-R release of mostly ambient pieces) and "Piano" (a collection of solo piano pieces).

Chilvers is a frequent collaborator with Tim Bowness (the singer of No-Man). As Tim Bowness/Peter Chilvers, they released an album of dark reflective ballad songs - "California, Norfolk" - and an online only remix CDR, "Overstrand". The two have also worked together as part of the ambient folk band Samuel Smiles (with Chilvers focussing mostly on piano) and the experimental rock band Henry Fool (with Chilvers concentrating on bass guitar and electric piano).

Chilvers is the instrumental half of the ambient-folk duo Alias Grace, with singer Sandra O'Neill. The duo have released two albums - "Embers" and "Storm Blue Evening" - plus the "Griosach" download EP.

Chilvers is also the leader of A Marble Calm - an ambient-inclined music collective centred around himself and reclusive marimba/vibraphone player Jon Hart. Other participants have included Theo Travis, Tim Bowness, Sandra O'Neill, Steve Adey and Cambridge experimental-country guitarist Rob Jackson. This project has released two albums - "Surfacing" and "Blue Turns To Grey".

Chilvers has also collaborated with No-Man and songwriter Paul Goodwin, and has written a number of generative music soundtracks for the "Creatures" computer games released by Creature Labs.

Chilvers is one of the three co-founders of the Burning Shed online record label, with Tim Bowness and Pete Morgan.

Recently Chilvers has collaborated with Brian Eno on an unspecified generative music project for possible future release ["Generative Project With Brian Eno", news item on Peter Chilvers homepage 25/01/2007] .

elected discography

;Solo
*"He Wrote This" (Burning Shed, 2001)
*"Stormwatcher" (Burning Shed, 2002)
*"Free" (viral web release, 2002)
*"Piano" (Burning Shed, 2006)

;Collaboration
*Alias Grace, "Embers" (self-released, 1998 - reissued on Burning Shed)
*Tim Bowness/Samuel Smiles, "World Of Bright Futures" (Hidden Art, 1999)
*Tim Bowness/Samuel Smiles, "How We Used To Live" (Hidden Art, 2000)
*Tim Bowness/Samuel Smiles, "Live Archive One" (Burning Shed, 2001)
*Tim Bowness/Samuel Smiles, "Live Archive Two" (Burning Shed, 2001)
*Alias Grace, "Storm Blue Evening" (Burning Shed, 2001)
*Tim Bowness/Peter Chilvers, "California, Norfolk" (Burning Shed, 2001)
*Tim Bowness/Peter Chilvers, "Overstrand" (Burning Shed, 2003)
*A Marble Calm, "Surfacing" (Hidden Art, 2004)
*A Marble Calm, "Blue Turns To Grey" (ToneFloat, 2006)

;Guest musician
*Darkroom, "Daylight" (3rd Stone Ltd., 1998)
*Tim Bowness, "My Hotel Year" (One Little Indian, 2004)
*No-Man, "Together We're Stranger" (KScope/Snapper Music, 2004)

;Other
*David Byrne and Brian Eno - "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" (2008)Cite web |url=http://www.peterchilvers.com/news.php |title=David Byrne / Brian Eno (Digital Archeology) |publisher=Peter Chilvers |date=2008-08-19 |accessdate=2008-08-25] Cite web |url=http://www.davidbyrne.com/music/cds/everything_that_happens/credits.php |title=Everything That Happens Will Happen Today credits |publisher=David Byrne |date=2008-08-18 |accessdate=2008-08-18]

References

External links

* [http://peterchilvers.com/index.php/ Peter Chilvers homepage]
* [http://www.burningshed.com/marblecalm// A Marble Calm homepage]
* [http://www.burningshed.com/aliasgrace/ Alias Grace homepage]
* [http://www.burningshed.com/bownesschilvers/ Tim Bowness/Peter Chilvers homepage]