Chris Cutler - CASSIBER 1982-1992

1984

FEBRUARY

6. Milan, Teatro del Elfo Musica Theatro Festival

15. Berliner Ensemble quartet , with Heiner, Dagmar, George Lewis, Chris Cutler

16. Berliner Ensemble, Duck and Cover

17. Paris, Rock Avantgarde Festival

18. Lille, Goethe Institute

APRIL

25-30. Frankfurt, studio

MAY

1-3. Frankfurt, mixing Beauty and the Beast.

17. Gottingen, Circumanie Festival

18. Hannover

19. Weingarten, Weingartner Musiktage, Junger Kiinstler ‘8419

20. Rodermark, Avant Garde Festival

26. Vandoeuvres les Nancy, Musique Action International Festival

JULY

3 & 4. Sao Paulo MASP

6 & 7. Porto Allegre

9. Curitiba

12 & 13. Rio de Janeiro, Teatro Delfin

15. Belo Horizonte

16. Brasilia

18. Salvatore Bahia

SEPTEMBER

13. Koln

14. Bochum

15. Hannover, Lauschangriff International Festival

16. Hamburg (Zappi joins in)

17. Berlin

19. Frankfurt, Batschkapp

30. Leipzig, Leipziger Jazztage

1985

MARCH

8. Bern, Taklos Festival

10. Zurich, Taklos Festival

11. Salzburg, Gegenlicht

12. Wien, Szene

13. Miinchen, Alabama Halle

14. Bielefeld, Aula

15. Aachen, Universitat

16. Karlsruhe,Tollhaus

JUNE

17. Linz, Stattwerkstatt

18. Nijmberg, Zabo Linde

19. Wurzburg, Autonomes Kulturcentrum

20. Ravensburg

21. Mainz

Christoph Anders

1986

JANUARY

8. Duisburg, Eschhaus

9. Heidelberg

10. Stuttgart

12. Freiburg

13. Frankfurt

15. Zurich

16. Friburg

17. Lyon Jazz Rive de Gier International Festival AUGUST

18-25. Frankfurt studio (Perfect Worlds)

SEPTEMBER

5. Victoriaville Festival

NOVEMBER

19. Krefeld, Kulturfestival

21. Berlin

1987

JANUARY

19. Koln, Stadtgarten

20. Frankfurt

21. Duisburg

22. Hamburg

23. Braunschweig

24. Diisseldorf

27. Aachen

29. Heidelberg

30. Numberg

MARCH

4. Paris Radio, France Culture Musique Limites

MAY

31. Amsterdam, Paradiso. Festival

JUNE

28. Ulm, Festival

JULY

5. St Remy, Mimi Festival.

SEPTEMBER

11. Wien, Audi Max T.U.

12. Linz, Stadtwerkstatt

13. Munich, Manege

28. Frankfurt, Batschkapp. HR radio festival

DECEMBER

11. Eindhoven, Effenar

12. Haarlem, Patronaat

13. Amsterdam, Paradiso

1988

FEBRUARY

9. Wurzburg, AKW

19. Nurnberg

12. Grenoble

14. Diisseldorf, Kulturfabrik

16. Berlin, Metropole Loft

19. Berliner Ensemble (East)

JUNE

17. New York, The Kitchen

JULY

11. St. Johns Newfoundland, Sound Symposium Festival

NOVEMBER

6. Bergamo

28-30. Recording at the electronic studio of the Academy of Art, East Berlin ( A Face we all Know ).

DECEMBER

1-7. Recording at the electronic studio of the Academy of Art, East Berlin ( A Face we all Know ).

9. Limoges

1989

MARCH

30. London ICA

MAY

22. Riga

25. Leningrad

27. Moscow

OCTOBER

13. Berlin, Astra

14. Rostock

15. Dresden

16. Halle

17. Jena

18. Berlin (East)

19-21. Mixing A Face we all Know, at the electronic studio of the Academy of Art, East Berlin

31. Kassel, Kasseler Musiktage

1990

NOVEMBER

5. Essen

12 & 13. London, ICA

1991

No concerts

1992

OCTOBER

7. Strasbourg (with Dietmar Diesner, sax and electronics)

22. Kyoto

23 & 24. Tokyo (with Masami Shinoda, sax)

DECEMBER

12 & 13. Gulbenkian Foundation (with Johannes Bauer, trombone)

FIN

With thanks, for their assistance in realising this project, to Allesandro Achilli, Johannes Bauer, Elmar Brandt, Walter Briissow, Bruce Christensen Etienne Conod, Dietmar Diesner, Claire Dinsmore, Bob Drake, Wolfgang Hamm, Franco Fabbri, Adjacy Farias, Fred Frith, John Ireland, Kersten Glandien, Alexander Kan, Georg Katzer, Peter Kemper, Geoff Leigh, Rene Lussier, Shinoda Masami, Renato Moraes, Georg Moriawitz, Walter Rovere, Vitor Rua, Noda Shigenori, Erez Siag, Massimo Simonini, Maggie Thomas, Paul Wilson, Darren Woolsey, Kurt Bauer.

www.ccutler.com

www.heinergoebbels.com

http://alfredharth.blogspot.com

Graphic design: Tim Schwartz @ OnionProductions.com

We know some photos are uncredited; we were just unable to source them. If you can identify any, please let us know and we’ll we’ll put them on an addenda page on our website, as well as any other additional materials we find, or you can point us to. thanks, cc

Christoph Anders, Chris Cutler, Alfred Harth, and Heiner Goebbels

Photo by Ralph Quinke

I’d made contact with Heiner through Franco Fabbri and Umberto Fiori of Stormy Six , and when I was commissioning work for the Recommended Records Sampler , in 1982, he sent me an orchestrated street riot: Berlin Q-Damm . I wrote to him suggesting that next time, instead of using a drum machine he should use the telephone. CC

With the exceptions of Gut — a composition by Rene Lussier that Christoph and I had added to as guests of the Frith/Lussier duo at the Victoriaville Festival, and Cassiber had later rearranged and kept in the repertoire — and Start the Show , which Christoph had set alone.

Chris was a member of the, left-wing alternative rock group Henry Cow (1968-78), who worked independently in the context of various left-field movements and founded Rock In Opposition (1978), a collective of self-organising, oppositional European bands.

H. Goebbels, ‘Der Kampf gegen die Phantasie- und Geschmacklosigkeit als primare politische Aufgabe’, in Rock Session 7. Das Magazin der popularen Musik, K. Frederking & K. Humann (eds), Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbeck bei Hamburg, 1983, (103–111), p.103.

ibid.

Гласность и Перестройка (glasnost and perestroika / openness & reconstruction) — the slogan under which Mikhail S. Gorbachev introduced political reforms in the USSR (1985), which eventually lead to the collapse of the East block.

Goebbels, p.110.

С. Cutler, Interview with author, 2012.

Cassiber, Beauty And The Beast, Eigelstein, Cologne / ReR London, 1984.

A line by Thomas Pynchon used in Cassiber’s fourth album A Face We All Know , ReR London, 1989.