[atlantaprog] Fwd: [ARTNEWS] Chris Cutler at Eyedrum on March 5th

>Euphonic Productions & Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta
>  present
>Chris Cutler - percussion & electronics
>  plus special guests
>Son of C.O.D.
>9pm, Wed, March 5
>$8 at the door
>Eyedrum
>290 MLK Jr. Drive, SE, Suite 8
>Atlanta, GA 30312
>404-522-0655
>
>http://www.eyedrum.org
>http://tk-jk.net/euphonic/
>http://www.theEAAA.org
>
>One of the best-known improvisers and soundscape artists in Europe, UK
>drummer Chris Cutler will be touring the US (southeast & midwest) throughout
>the month of March, 2003. He will perform on electrified percussion, an
>electronic/acoustic hybrid that he has developed over the past 20 years.
>Cutler began doing solo electrified percussion concerts in the late 90s; his
>first, in Tokyo, was the subject of Aoyama Shinji's documentary *Edge of
>Chaos*. The ReR Megacorp label just released Cutler's first live solo
>electrified percussion CD, "Solo: A Descent Into the Maelstrom", which
>includes recordings made on his previous Atlanta stop back in April 2001.
>
>Cutler began wiring his drum kit in the early 70s because he wanted "An
>instrument in fact like an electric guitar, in which many of the techniques
>and attributes associated with the acoustic version are preserved but
>massively extended." Besides solo concerts, he has used it with bands such
>as the Art Bears, Cassiber, Duck and Cover, The Science Group and countless
>improv ensembles.
>
>Cutler has been a major figure on the international avant garde music scene
>since the 1970s, when he co-founded the Rock In Opposition (RIO) movement
>and played in Henry Cow, News from Babel, The (ec) Nudes, P53, Pere Ubu,
>Hail and The Wooden Birds. A prolific musician, Cutler has countless
>releases under his own name as well as with John Rose, Fred Frith, Zeena
>Parkins, Iancu Dumitrescu, Peter Blegvad and Stevan Tickmayer. Other lasting
>collaborations have included Aqsak Maboul (Belgium), Lussier/Derome and Les
>Quatre Guitaristes (Canada), The Kalahari Surfers (Africa), Perfect Trouble
>(Germany), Between (Sweden), N.O.R.M.A. (Italy), Telectu (Portugal), Mieku
>Shimuzu (Japan),The Hyperion Ensemble (Romania), The Film Music Orchestra,
>'Oh Moscow', Gong, The Work and Towering Inferno (UK), The Residents (USA),
>and stateless Tense Serenity and Mirror Man. Recent projects include Radio
>pieces with Lutz Glandien and Shelly Hirsch, Live Soundtrack for Carl
>Dreher's Vampyr (with Italians Musci and Venosta), his Timescales project
>and work with David Thomas and Linda Thompson.
>
>He is also well known as a music critic and theorist, with numerous writings
>on music and popular culture. In addition, Cutler is the founder and head of
>ReR Megacorp (www.megacorp.u-net.com), a record label specializing in avant
>garde music from around the world. Cutler's status in the UK is roughly
>equivalent to that of musician and improviser John Zorn and his label,
>Tzadik, in the US.
>
>
>CUTLER ON SOLO PERFORMANCES AND LIVE RECORDING:
>"Why live recording? ...at a concert, the pressure, the public, the physical
>acoustics and the strict un-alterability of the event make
>improvisations...a meaningful and social act..."
>
>"It still feels to me as if I am not so much trying to make the instrument
>do what I want it to do as to discover what it wants - and then argue with
>it in public. ... Like Dr. Johnson's prospect of being hung at dawn, a solo
>concert wonderfully focuses the mind. "
>
>DESCRIPTION OF CUTLER'S ELECTRIFIED PERCUSSION KIT
>"It is a genuine hybrid, part 'pure electronic', part acoustic and part
>extended acoustic, with a range of aesthetics and techniques borrowed from
>all three domains."
>
>"There are no samples, pads or triggers, just acoustic drums amplified and
>modified with standard electronic processors; there's a table with a few
>tambours, a frying pan and an egg slicer - also amplified -, a miscellaneous
>collection of sticks, brushes, screw-rods, beaters, violin bows,
>battery-operated cocktail mixers, some ping pong balls, a fire bell and a
>massager. All this is run into a small 16 channel mixer and out through
>various standard pedals and guitar effects."
>
>
>For further info, please see: http://www.ccutler.com
>
>
>"Drum veteran Chris Cutler returns for another dose of percussion and
>electronics guaranteed to blow your mind. Local electronic ensemble Son of
>C.O.D. Also performs."
>- Omar Khalid, Creative Loafing
>
>
>"Euphonic Productions and the Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta are two
>local groups that deserve kudos for bringing an increasingly impressive
>roster of intriguing left-field music to town."
>- Shane Harrison, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
>
>
>
>Upcoming...
>March 22: Molr Drammaz. Eyedrum
>March 26: Vandermark Five. The Earl
>April 23: Antasten. First Existentialist Congregation
>
>
>
>Chris Cutler will also be perform in Athens at The Flicker Theatre & Bar on
>Tuesday, March 4th. Guitarist Marshall Marrotte and Tony Evans (on alto sax
>& electronics) open at 8pm. Presented by Low Yo Yo Stuff Records, Clocked!
>Restaurant and mem proindustry. For further info, call 706-227-6199.
>
>
>
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