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

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
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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) "Punderphonics 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)

Bibliografia

• (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.

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.

Voci correlate

• Henry Cow
• Art Bears
• Rock in Opposition
• Recommended Records

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 Internet Movie Database, 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

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 115326065 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0001 0860 2856 · Europeana agent/base/69348 · LCCN (EN) n96009236 · GND (DE) 134610016 · BNF (FR) cb121176005 (data) · WorldCat Identities (EN) lccn-n96009236

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[de] Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler (* 4. Januar 1947 in Washington, D.C., USA) ist ein britischer Schlagzeuger, Perkussionist, Komponist, Schriftsteller und Musiktheoretiker. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine Arbeit mit den englischen Avantgarde-Rock-Bands Henry Cow und Art Bears, als Initiator der Rock-In-Opposition-Bewegung und als Gründer des Plattenlabels und -vertriebs Recommended Records.

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[fr] Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler est un batteur britannique né le 4 janvier 1947 à Washington DC (États-Unis). Membre du groupe rock expérimental Henry Cow durant les années 1970, il a par la suite fait partie de Art Bears et News from Babel. Il rejoint Pere Ubu lors de la reformation du groupe en 1987 et collabore avec de nombreux musiciens, notamment les Residents et joint les guistaristes André Duchesne, René Lussier, Jean-Pierre Bouchard et Claude Fradette pour le premier opus du groupe québécois Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso Bar dont le titre est Tournée Mondiale/Été '89 (Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada). Cutler dirige le label indépendant Recommended Records, qu'il a fondé en 1978[1].

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