Christian Pincock

Trombonist & composer active in jazz and avant garde / electronic music. "Christian Pincock is a composer, trombonist and educator who creates a wide range of adventurous and eclectic music. Expanding from a firm background in jazz, his work draws upon a multitude of experiences to create unique and innovative music that seeks to explore new concepts and processes. Christian has three distinct vehicles for his expansive musical vision. He composes for and performs with Slipstitch, which explores unusual orchestrational sounds, brings together composition and improvisation in unique ways, and uses the full textural range of individual solos through complex group counterpoint. Coming out of the jazz tradition of innovation, the group incorporates many other influences including the rhythms of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music, the forms and compositional practices of European classical music, and grooves and expressive techniques from popular modern styles. He also performs as Tightrope on trombone and computer using custom controllers and computer software for live control over computer-generated sounds and processing. Some of these controllers include organ-style pedals, buttons and motion sensors attached to his valve trombone and keyboard controllers used in nonstandard ways. Among other things, the music explores the expressive possibilities of indeterminate durations, feel and form within a set harmonic framework..."