17 Facts About Chris Strouth

Chris Strouth became interested in art and music at an early age, learning how to experiment with tape recorders at age seven.

Chris Strouth has been heavily involved in the Twin Cities arts and music community from a young age.

The day after his high school graduation in 1986, Strouth began volunteering at Rifle Sport on Minneapolis' then-notorious Block E He quickly became publicity director, and eventually managed the space.

Chris Strouth has worked frequently as an organizer of entire scenes of bands, typified by the electronica collective Future Perfect Sound System, which he founded in 1995.

In 2009, Chris Strouth founded another musical collective, Paris 1919, named for the post-World War I artistic renaissance.

Paris 1919 began as a solo, studio-bound experiment in sonic collages; Chris Strouth has described the music as sounding "weird and chaotic and structureless and purposely off-beat" but notes that it is created from a painstaking process which may involve more than 1,000 edits.

In 2018, Chris Strouth released Risking Light, a soundtrack album to director Dawn Mikkelson's documentary about forgiveness.

Chris Strouth has frequently led Paris 1919 in creating live soundtracks to silent films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, and the 1930 mystery The Bat Whispers at the 2014 Minneapolis Comic-Con.

In 2011, Chris Strouth was a conductor for the four-act opera Czeslaw's Loop, performed live on a floating barge on the Mississippi River, which included performers as diverse as classical soprano Maria Jette, techno-pop group Information Society's Paul Robb, and Tom Hazelmyer of the punk band Halo of Flies.

Chris Strouth joked to an interviewer for Minnesota Public Radio that.

At Innova, Chris Strouth worked on albums by dozens of artists including Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Beat Circus, Matthew Burtner, George Cartwright, Victoria Jordanova, Phillip Johnston, and Hyatt's Grammy-nominated album The Clouds.

The original videotapes of the groundbreaking festival had gone missing soon after filming; Chris Strouth spent several years trying to find them, and then several more securing music rights for the documentary.

From 1994 to 1996, Chris Strouth produced the documentary series What, which covered the Minneapolis pop and rock scene, for Twin Cities public television station KTCA.

In 2009, Chris Strouth learned that he would need a kidney transplant due to the effects of IgA nephropathy.

Chris Strouth found a matching donor, Scott Pakudaitis, after sharing the news with his followers on Twitter and Facebook, and underwent a successful transplant at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in December 2009.

Chris Strouth writes and illustrates the column "Makes No Sense at All" for the Minneapolis alt-weekly City Pages.

Chris Strouth has written for publications such as The Growler and America Online's Digital City.