About Chris Mayes-Wright

Chris Mayes-Wright was nine when he started learning to play the drum kit, and by the time he was 15 he was recording his own band in basements and garages. He went on to study Music Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University, graduating with a first-class BSc in 2005. During his time in Leeds, he researched the integration of music technology in secondary education, gained experience in radio, and engineered at live venues and in studios.

In early 2006, Chris took up a full-time position at the head office of Sound On Sound magazine, where he is now News Editor -- you can read his reports every month in the magazine as well as on-line. He also finds time to write other articles for SOS, such as the review of the M-Audio Mid Air 25, interviews with Will Holland (Quantic) and Jerry Boys, and numerous contributions to the regular 'Q&A' and 'Playback' columns.

In his spare time, Chris runs community music workshops and has recorded sound for multi-channel installations in the Royal Albert Hall and Ely Cathedral. In 2005, his own quadrophonic composition 'Aleatoric Cage' became a resident installation at St Andrews Church in Soham.