Work with Michael Jackson
Currell contributed Synclavier, digital guitar and a great many special effects to Michael Jackson's album BAD. By his own account he also helped arrange the single "BAD" together with Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones.
On the BAD world tour that followed, he played Synclavier and digital guitar. He later contributed rhythm arrangements, Synclavier, guitars and percussion to HIStory. The official Synclavier site lists him in its Hall of Fame, noting that he "was the keyboard player and guitarist on many of Michael Jackson's albums" and "performed on Michael Jackson's two world tours".
What the Synclavier was
The Synclavier, which appeared at the end of the 1970s, was a digital synthesiser and sampling system that cost about as much as a house. Recording a sound, cutting it, placing it and playing it back — the work anyone now does on the machine in front of them — was first made practical on instruments like this one. How a pop record sounded in the 1980s depended in part on how many people could actually operate one. Currell was among the few who could.
What he works on now
From a long study of sound and consciousness Currell proposed the "Currell Effect", set out in his book Harmonic Resonance of the Quantum Potential. At Althea Project GK, founded in Japan in 2026, he is the originator of Absolute Reductionism (AR) and its operating architecture ARIS, and is developing ARIS-EC, a deterministic error-correction and verification architecture.
At esse-sense Future Forum 2026
The keynote sets out three axes of observation — creativity, technology and spirituality (the domain of consciousness, self, purpose, meaning and responsibility, not religious doctrine or belief) — and then swaps the question itself, from "what is this" to "why is it this way".
Sources
- synclavier.com — Christopher Currell (Synclavier Hall of Fame)
- audiocybernetics.com — Christopher Currell résumé
- altheaproject.net — Althea Project
This page draws on the public sources above and on the speaker biography he supplied on 10 August 2026. Statements about albums and tours are limited to what the public primary sources confirm.