Author of several illustrated books – and two forthcoming novels
Chris is the author of several successful books on the creative use of digital technology, including: Creating Digital Music and Sound (2006, Focal Press/RotoVision); The Complete Guide to Digital Audio (2004, Ilex); Instant Graphics (2007, with Luke Herriott, RotoVision); and (as ghostwriter) First Steps in Digital Design (2007, RotoVision).
All have been translated into several languages. He also ghostwrote the stories that accompanied the characters in a book on drawing Manga robots.
Chris’ two illustrated ‘how to’ books on digital music-making and recording feature interviews with a number of successful musicians (including Peter Gabriel), producers and engineers (at Abbey Road and Real World Studios, among others), remixers (including Hakan Lidbo), technologists (including BAFTA-winning app maker Tim Cole), and the Oscar-nominated sound editor/designer Kant Pan.
Chris is the author of a forthcoming book on robots, robotics, and AI, The Robot Century, which he believes will be the definitive look at these subjects – and at their real-world, fictional, cultural, ethical, and policy implications, both today and in the future. It will be published worldwide in 2025 by CRC Press.
Chris was a contributing editor of The Big Read Book of Books (DK), a tie-in with the BBC TV series on the nation’s favourite reads, and has made significant text contributions to titles as diverse as The All New Print Production Handbook (also edited by Chris, RotoVision), Digital Photography Workshops: Portraits (RotoVision), and Ultimate Robot (DK).
Away from the worlds of business, technology, culture, and creativity, Chris’ poetic memoir An Insignificant Boy, depicting his surreal childhood with a damaged, abusive father who had served two years in Occupied Japan – in Hiroshima – was published in 2024.
A second, expanded ‘director’s cut’ edition will be published in 2025, along with an audiobook version, which Chris has narrated himself.
Novelist… and the one that got away
Chris is writing two novels: Morpheus Speedway (a future-set black comedy) and The Golden Arrow (literary fiction).
In 1999, a prose-poem collection entitled The Sacred Hypertext (written as ‘christopher rye’) was in the advanced stages of publication by Faber in London, a dream come true for Chris. However, the editor left the company, leaving the project in limbo and ultimately abandoned. Chris performed spoken-word versions of the work over guitar-generated soundscapes at the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden, and other London venues.
So close, and yet…
Enquiries
07986 009109
chris@chrismiddleton.company
