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short biography 
CHRIS
CUTLER
Percussionist,
composer,
lyricist, author, broadcaster. At the start of the seventies, he co-founded The
Ottawa Music Company - a 22-piece Rock
composer’s orchestra - before joining British
experimental group Henry
Cow, with whom he toured,
recorded and worked in dance and theatre projects for
the next 8 years. Subsequently he co co-founded a
series of mixed national groups: Art
Bears, News
from Babel,
Cassiber,
The
(ec) Nudes, p53
and The
Science Group - and was a
permanent member
of American bands Pere
Ubu, Hail
and The
Wooden Birds. Outside a succession of special projects for stage, theatre,
film and radio he still works in successive projects
with Fred
Frith, Jon
Rose, The
Hyperion Ensemble, Annie
Gosfield, Tim
Hodgkinson, David
Thomas, Peter
Blegvad, Daan
Vandewalle, Stevan
Tickmayer, Lotte
Anker and Romanian spectralist Iancu
Dumitrescu and
Ana
Maria Avram, Himmel
(minimalism for massed fuzz organs), The
Watts, The
Peter Blegvad Quintet and What
River - and works with all the usual suspects in
all the usual improvising contexts. He has toured the
world as a soloist with his extended electrified kit.
Adjacent projects include commissioned works for
radio, live movie soundtracks, occasional
compositions, Signe
de Trois for surround-sound projection, a
year-long daily soundscape project for Resonance
FM in London and p53
for Orchestra and Soloists. He is
currently five years in to a 150-hour
theoretical/archival and educational podcast series (Probes) for the Museum of Modern art in Barcelona, and appears on
over 140 records. He founded and runs the independent label ReR Megacorp and the art
distribution
service Gallery
and Academic; he
edited
the New Music magazine Unfiled
for 7 years, and is author of the theoretical
collection File
Under Popular - as well as numerous
articles and papers published in 16 languages. He was
on faculty for a while at the Museum School in Boston
and lectures irregularly on theoretical and music
related topics worldwide. Other
lasting collaborations have included Aqsak
Maboul (Belgium), Les
Quatre Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-bar
(Canada), The
Kalahari Surfers (Africa), Perfect
Trouble (Germany), The
Residents (USA),
Between
(Sweden), N.O.R.M.A,
(Italy), Telectu
(Portugal), Half
the Sky (Japan), The
European Improviser's Ensemble
(EU),
Music
for Films,
Oh
Moscow,
Gong, The
Work, Brainville,
The
Watts,
Artbears
Songbook, Nimmersatt,
The Bad Boys Collective, The
Artaud Beats, The
Lindsay Cooper Songbook,
Towering
Inferno,
Tense
Serenity
and Mirror
Man.
Long Taxonomic Biography with abbreviated form of list of performances
Detailed List of Performances since 2009 (under construction)
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