# Chris Cutler

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.