Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler
Nazionalità	Regno Unito
Genere	Rock progressivo; Avant-progressive rock; Indie rock ; Improvvisazione libera
Periodo di attività musicale	1967 – in attività
Strumento	batteria
Album pubblicati	3
Studio	3
	Sito ufficiale

Chris Cutler (Washington, 4 gennaio 1947) è un batterista, compositore, paroliere, teorico della musica e discografico britannico.

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

(EN) "Composing with Other People's Music - Creativity or Theft?", British Council, Belgrado.
(EN) "Electrification and Experimentation, the Development of New Musical Resources in the Popular Field", Union of Composers, Mosca.
(EN) "Improvisation: Motives and Methods", International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), Università di Leeds.
(EN) "Rock In Opposition, a case study", Accademia delle Scienze di Berlino
(EN) "Studio Composition and Visualisation", studio analitico, IASPM, Università di Montréal
(EN) "Sonic and Structural Convergence at the fringes of Musical Genres". Royal College of Art, Londra.
(EN) "On The Impact of Recording Technology on Popular music." Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano.
(EN) "Plunderphonics and Postmodernism", Dissonanten, Rotterdam.
(EN) "Sampling and Plunderphonics", Museum School, Boston.
(EN) "The Recording Studio as a Compositional Instrument", Royal College of Art, Londra.

Saggi

(EN) "Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms: Concerning Musical and Technical Means and Political Needs" (1990)
(EN) "Plunderphonia" (1994)
(EN) "Scale" (1997)
(EN) "Thoughts on Music and the Avant Garde" (2005)
(EN) "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

(EN) Cutler, Chris e Hodgkinson, Tim, The Henry Cow Book, Third Step Printworks, 1981, ISBN 0-9508870-0-5.
(EN) Cutler, Chris, File Under Popular: Theoretical and Critical Writings on Music, November Books, 1984, ISBN 0-946423-01-6.

Voci correlate

Altri progetti

Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Chris Cutler

Collegamenti esterni

Sito ufficiale, su ccutler.com.
(EN) Opere di Chris Cutler, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
(EN) Chris Cutler, su Goodreads.
(EN) Chris Cutler, su AllMusic, All Media Network.
(EN) Chris Cutler, su Discogs, Zink Media.
(EN) Chris Cutler, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
(EN) Chris Cutler, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
(EN) Chris Cutler homepage.
(EN) Chris Cutler biography, calyx.club.fr , il sito web della musica di Canterbury.
(EN) "On Chris Cutler" Archiviato il 3 marzo 2016 in Internet Archive.. Article by Patrick Wright published in The Guardian, November 1995.
(EN) 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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