Chris Cutler

At the start of the seventies, Chris Cutler co-founded The Ottawa Music Co. with Dave Stewart, a 22-piece Rock composer's orchestra, and eventually joined British experimental group Henry Cow, with whom he toured, recorded and worked in dance and theatre projects until it's demise in 1978.

After Henry Cow, Cutler went on to co-found 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. Apart from a succession of special projects he works regularly with John Rose, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, David Thomas, Iancu Dumitrescu, Peter Blegvad and Stevan Tickmayer. He also performs widely as a soloist with his extended electric kit.

Recent projects include Radio pieces with Lutz Glandien and Shelly Hirsch, Timescales for Quartet and calculated pulses, a live Soundtrack for Carl Dreher's Vampyr (with Italians Musci and Venosta, a music theatre piece with Stevan Tickmayer and Marie Goyette and a small ensemble reinterpreting classic graphic scores.

He also founded and runs the independent label and distribution service ReR/Recommended and, until 1991, the East European specialist label Points East. He is editor of the New Music magazine Unfiled and author of the theoretical book File Under Popular as well as numerous articles and papers published in 14 languages. He lectures intermittently on theoretical and music related topics. He has appeared on more than 100 recordings.