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

I really need to move closer to Atlanta...I've been hearing about CC in chat at 
PE lately...sounds like something I'd like to see..BUT...driving the 2 hours 
each way on a school night just doesn't work very well:-(  I also won't be at 
the ARIA meeting tonight like I was hoping.  Hope ya'll have fun...someday I'll 
make it so I can meet ya'll:-)

Beth
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Allen Welty-Green 
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  Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:08 AM
  Subject: [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.
  >
  >
  >
  >tmj/ep
  >    ______________________________________________________
  >   |euphonic productions is a not-for-profit organization
  >   |dedicated to presenting diverse perspectives in music.
  >   *

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