Chris Dupont plays a haunted piano

Circling Issue #18, featuring Chris Dupont

Chris DuPont is a Michigan native tunesmith, endlessly reimagining the indie/folk paradigm. With an unmistakable ethereal tenor, diverse guitar work, and a taste for the cinematic, DuPont steers the classic eloquence and lyricism of 70’s folk/Americana into the iridescent haze of dream pop.

We caught up with Chris for a call at the recording and mixing studio he maintains at his house. Chris is a natural storyteller and teacher, able to translate the technicalities of his tools of the trade and demonstrate in a few quickly plucked notes the sound qualities a given instrument. Making music is his work, but it’s clearly his joy as well — here are ten objects which make his home one in which art can survive.