È noto per aver militato nella progressive band Henry Cow, nel filone dell'avant-garde rock. Ha anche suonato in altre formazioni tra le quali Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu e brevemente nei Gong. Ha collaborato con musicisti come Fred Frith, Lindsay Cooper, Alfred Harth, Zeena Parkins, Peter Blegvad e The Residents, per un totale di oltre 100 registrazioni.
Dopo lo scioglimento degli Henry Cow, Cutler ha creato l'etichetta discografica indipendente Recommended Records, che ha pubblicato principalmente i musicisti dell'area del Rock in Opposition. È inoltre l'editore della rivista RēR Quarterly, emanazione della stessa Recommended.
Scritti e discorsi Discorsi "Composing with Other People's Music - Creativity or Theft?", British Council, Belgrado. "Electrification and Experimentation, the Development of New Musical Resources in the Popular Field", Union of Composers, Mosca. "Improvisation: Motives and Methods", International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), Università di Leeds. "Rock In Opposition, a case study", Accademia delle Scienze di Berlino "Studio Composition and Visualisation", studio analitico, IASPM, Università di Montréal "Sonic and Structural Convergence at the fringes of Musical Genres". Royal College of Art, Londra. "On The Impact of Recording Technology on Popular music." Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano. "Plunderphonics and Postmodernism", Dissonanten, Rotterdam. "Sampling and Plunderphonics", Museum School, Boston. "The Recording Studio as a Compositional Instrument", Royal College of Art, Londra.
Saggi "Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms: Concerning Musical and Technical Means and Political Needs" (1990) "Plunderphonia" (1994) "Scale" (1997) "Thoughts on Music and the Avant Garde" (2005) "Locality" (2006)
Discografia Con altri artisti Henry Cow Leg End aka Legend (1973, LP, Virgin Records, U.K.) Unrest (1974, LP, Virgin Records, U.K.) Henry Cow Concerts (1976, 2xLP, Caroline Records, U.K.) Western Culture (1979, LP, Broadcast, U.K.) Henry Cow/Slapp Happy Desperate Straights (1975, LP, Virgin Records, U.K.) In Praise of Learning (1975, LP, Virgin Records, U.K.) Art Bears Hopes and Fears (1978, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) Winter Songs (1979, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) The World as It Is Today (1981, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) Aksak Maboul Un Peu de l'Âme des Bandits (1980, LP, Crammed Discs, Belgio) Cassiber Man or Monkey? (1982, 2xLP, Riskant, Germania) Beauty and the Beast (1984, LP, Recommended Records, GB) Perfect Worlds (1986, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) A Face We All Know (1990, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Live in Tokyo (1998, 2xCD, Recommended Records, U.K.) The Work Live in Japan (1982, LP, Recommended Records, Giappone) Fred Frith Live in Prague and Washington, (1983, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) Live in Trondheim, Berlin, Limoges (1994, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) 2 Gentlemen in Verona (2000, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) The Stone: Issue Two (2007, CD, Tzadik Records, U.S.) News from Babel Work Resumed on the Tower (1984, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) Letters Home (1986, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) David Thomas and the Pedestrians Winter Comes Home (1983, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) More Places Forever (1985, LP, Rough Trade Records, U.K.) Duck and Cover Re Records Quarterly Vol.1 No.2 (1985, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) Peter Blegvad Downtime (1988, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) Just Woke Up (1995, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) Hangman's Hill (1998, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) Pere Ubu The Tenement Year (1988, LP, Fontana Records) Cloudland (1989, LP, Fontana Records]) Hail Kirk (1992, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Lutz Glandien Domestic Stories (1993, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Scenes From No Marriage (1994, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) The (ec) Nudes Vanishing Point (1994, LP, Recommended Records, U.K.) La 1919 Jouer, spielen, to play (1994, CD, Materiali Sonori, I) P53 P53 (1995 , CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Biota Object Holder (1995, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Zeena Parkins Shark! (1996, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) René Lussier e Jean Derome Three Suite Piece (1996, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Roberto Musci Steel water light (1999, with J.Rose and C.Gabbiani, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Thomas Dimuzio Quake (1999, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) The Science Group A Mere Coincidence (1999, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Spoors (2003, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Vril Effigies in Cork (2003, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.) Brainville 3 Trial by Headline (2008, CD, Recommended Records, U.K.)
Solista Solo: A Descent Into the Maelstrom (2001, CD, Recommended Records) Twice Around the World (2005, CD, Recommended Records) There and Back Again (2006, CD, Recommended Records)
Film 2000 At the Edge of Chaos – documentario di 65 minuti di Shinji Aoyama su un concerto solista alle percussioni di Chris Cutler a Tokyo, giugno 1998.
Pubblicazioni
Voci correlate Henry Cow Art Bears Rock in Opposition Recommended Records
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
Chris Cutler homepage. Chris Cutler biography, calyx.club.fr , il sito web della musica di Canterbury. "On Chris Cutler" . Article by Patrick Wright published in The Guardian, November 1995. Perfect Sound Forever, intervista del 1997, furious.com Chris Cutler, intervista del 1998, mitkadem3.homestead.com Chris Cutler / Roulette TV excerpt, intervista ed esibizione del 2006, YouTube
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