After helping to establish The Ottawa Music Company (a 22-member rock orchestra) in the early ’70's, Chris Cutler became drummer to the legendary avant-rock band Henry Cow in ’71 (with Fred Frith, amongst others). For the next 8 years, Cutler recorded albums, toured and wrote pieces for the likes of dance and theatre. In the meantime, he also established other bands like: Art Bears, News from Babel, Cassiber, The (ec) Nudes, The Science Group and p53, and he is a permanent member of Pere Ubu, Hail and The Wooden Birds.
Aside from his work for theatre-, film- and radio-projects, he has also worked with a whole bunch of other artists: Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Jon Rose, Tim Hodgkinson, David Thomas, Peter Blegvad, Daevid Allen, Daan Vandewalle, Stevan Tickmayer, Annie Gosfield, the Hyperion Ensemble and spectralists Iancu Dumitrescu and his wife Ana Maria Avram.
Chris Cutler is also a permanent member of The Bad Boys (a Cage, Stockhausen, Fluxus,… tribute band), The Artbears Songbook and What River, and he has collaborated with pretty much every big name in the improvisation world.
Cutler is also founder of the independent ReR Megacorp label, publisher, author of the book‘File Under Popular’, and has also written many articles on music(theory).

It is at the request of the LMI that Chris Cutler comes to Huis23 to give a reading and play a set touching on ‘loops’

LOOPS

A loop is glitch in time. It’s a zombie sound that keeps coming back. A loop is not human, it’s an artefact of technology. And loops are everywhere, tirelessly repeating themselves to anyone who will listen. They seem familiar – but they are not; they are profoundly alien. We mostly don’t notice because loops are chameleons as well as zombies. And they can do great good – so long as they are taken one iteration at a time. They can also do great harm - I mean profound, existential harm – which is why we so often associate them with insanity and death. Neither attribute – good nor bad - is anything we can do much about because loops are a plain fact in today’s world - and they’re not going anywhere. But we can approach them with caution. And that’s my topic for this talk.

This event is organised together with the ‘Interuniversity Attraction Pole program: Literature and Media Innovation’ (LMI). More information about this interuniversity project can be found via: http://lmi.arts.kuleuven.be

This session is free of charge but the number of seats in Huis 23 is very limited, so please register via reservationshuis23@abconcerts.be (making mention of 'cutler' in the subject title)

Links: http://www.ccutler.com/ccutler/