What is digitalflood.com?

Digitalflood.com is produced and directed by Christopher M. Welch with varied contributors over the years acting in supporting roles. The web site was founded in May 14, 1999 as a multimedia art project and has progressed through the years to a more professional format focusing on Chris’s music career and its associated pseudonym “DJ digitalflood”.

Our site passed the decade mark in May 2009. The original digitalflood art/music project started as a concept back in 1990 and has in various mediums (print magazines, Internet web sites, audio cassettes, private computer bulletin boards, and live productions) continued without pause since its inception (albeit with the occasional hiatus to refresh the Chris’s artistic batteries). Our work has spanned from written word (poetry, prose, short stories, opinion/editorials, journalism/news), print art (photography, graphic art, classic pen & ink, painting, rendered graphics), audio (web casts, full length albums and original compositions, mash ups, mix tapes), and video (short movies and animated clips).

Most recently we have continued to focus on our most popular endeavor to date, which is our web cast “digitalflood Pirate Radio“. Pirate Radio has had thousands of listens over the last seven plus years (the show started in 2004).

We’ve had over seven million hits to our web site as a whole.

Digitalflood.com has always been at the forefront of technology and has matured over time with the Internet as a medium. We’ve experimented with a number of web technologies and refreshed our site every year since its inception. The result is that digitalflood.com has avoided becoming stales like many of the other fad web sites. We’ve always been an innovator and used leading edge web technologies. Our latest web site is no exception.

Digitalflood.com has seen contributions from many individual artists, musicians, and subject matter experts over time. The official staff who’s who showing the most recent contributors are can be found here.

DJ digitalflood continues to push the site’s capabilities to its limits and deliver the most refreshing music freely available on the Internet today. The result is timeless musical compositions that defy classification while being completely accessible without resorting to typical pop music trends or gimmicks.

Who is Christopher Welch?

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Christopher Welch has been involved with computer science and communication network technologies for close to twenty years starting back in 1990 with his bulletin board forum. That site would eventually become a web site in 1996 and in 1999 launch again as digitalflood.com under its own private label.

Chris has been composing original music in a purely digital environment for over a decade now. Chris employs a number of analog instruments including guitars, bass, and even makes use of samples of childrens’ toys. Those elements are mixed with digital drum loops, free domain samples found through hours of hunting on the Internet, and programmed musical elements to create a unique aural soundscape. Genres bend as different styles of music are mixed with reckless abandon. The result is a one of kind sound that is at once unique, but catchy enough to be enjoyable. The music has been described as post-Goth or Industrial Emo by listeners though it is truly unclassifiable.

Chris also creates remixes and mash up’s of other artists’ songs incorporating both original and sampled elements. He also showcases his disk jockey and broadcast production talents on our site’s audio web cast program called digitalflood Pirate Radio.

Chris lives in Warwick, NY with his wife (Chrissy) and two daughters (Georgette and Emma). He has a cat named Groucho as well. Chris works, as a full time job, for a telecommunications provider as a Sales Engineer. His professional resume can be found on LinkedIn at:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/christophermwelch.

In addition to music, Chris is a classically trained graphic artist specializing in digital photography, multimedia graphic design, and traditional graphic arts. This includes digital video and radio production. Chris has studied journalism, mass media, and marketing. Chris attended several years of college and majored in Visual Communications.

Chris is an IT/IS management professional with over a decade of experience in IT, IS, Network Engineering, and Telecommunications integration. Chris specializes in web server deployment and information management. This includes CMS, CRM, and dynamic content deployment. Chris also has managed a full service Video Head End with over 200 digital TV channels. Chris also has five plus years of project management, knowledge management,  and engineering design experience. He specializes in both the Agile and Scrum project management methodology. He also has a background in computer forensics and information security including federal or state compliance audits (such as SOX).

Chris is an avid New York Mets fan. He enjoys writing, poetry, and spoken word (often called “slam” poetry). Chris is a big music fan and his tastes cross many boundaries. Chris is a big fan of history and continually studies the historical past of Orange County, NY. He is in the process of mapping out historic sites within the county on Google Earth.