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Artist
Christopher Costabile
9+ albums
ambient
about
Christopher Costabile is a musician and installation artist currently residing in Palm Harbor, Florida. He has lived in the Tampa Bay area all his life, and holds a BA in English Literature from the University of South Florida – a degree which instills his artistic creations with significant thematic and conceptual depth. Christopher learned guitar at age fifteen. He attended two years worth of formal guitar lessons and later exercised his proficiency at the instrument in numerous musical outfits. He is also a self-taught keyboard player and percussionist. At age eighteen, Christopher began to write his first songs, quickly advancing his abilities as a songwriter. From 2000 to 2004, Christopher was a member of numerous local bands, several of which performed Christopher’s original material. Since 2000, he has composed over thirty conventionally-structured folk and rock songs. In 2004, after becoming frustrated with performing music in clubs and bars, Christopher embarked on an unconventional career as a solo artist. He acquainted himself with music history, focusing heavily on late 20th century movements such as Minimalism, Procedural music, Musique Concréte, Aleatory composition, Free Jazz, as well as Ambient and Atonal methods of composition. Since 2004 Christopher has put these methods into practice in several dozen instrumental and avant-garde compositions. At the beginning of 2008, Christopher released a compilation album of this work on the Luna
