The producers of the upcoming I Dream Of Wires documentary shared this interview with industrial music pioneer Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey).
In the inteview, Carter discusses some of the history of Throbbing Gristle, how he got into electronic gear and his current interest in modular synths.
The latest episode of Electric Independence features an interview with Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti, the Chris & Cosey of Throbbing Gristle:
Not only did Carter and Tutti change the entire electronic music game as founding members of the legendary avant-garde industrial group Throbbing Gristle: they continued their love affair with music, gear and each other over the next 30-odd years with their mind-blowing, ahead-of-the-curve approach to drum machines, sampling, performance, and all manners of visceral electronic skullduggery. ?It?s really good to get physical with sound,? says Tutti, ?because it does reduce people to human beings, and their physicality, rather than them trying to intellectualize about it. The violence of the sound completely bypasses that.?
Between the electro-pop of Chris & Cosey, the spooky ambience of Carter Tutti or their continuing aural experiments under their mysterious ?CTI? moniker, the pair have left an indelible, beautiful bruise on the face of electronic music.
They took us for a spin around the home studio they?ve been recording in for 25 years, demonstrated some of the bits and pieces they?re using in their current incarnation, performed a special improvised track for us, and taught us how to give an asthmatic cat his daily dosage of medicine.
You can view other episodes in this series at the site Motherboard.tv.
VJFranzK demonstrates how to take the lovely plinky sounds of the Tenori On and turn them into unrelenting, pounding noise.
Check out this gorgeous experimental sound box, via Chris Carter:
Cosey Fanni Tutti using her Tutti Box experimental sound generator for the first time.
Contents:
Five oscillators, two effects units, a step sequencer, a joystick controller, a coil touch controller, an amp & speaker and a front mounted sound activated plasma display. It is powered by 9v PSU.
(Tutti Box is part of the CCCL project
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Carter built the unit specifically for Cosey Fanni Tutti to perform with at upcoming Throbbing Gristle shows. See Carter’s CCML site for details.
Nordvargr & Surachai‘s A Wilderness of Cloades.
via Surachai:
The prolific Swedish artist Nordvargr and I have collaborated this past winter sending soundscapes back and forth until a product emerged: A wilderness of Cloades. It’ll be released Spring 2010 on Old Europa Cafe with limited edition packaging.
Video by: Bridget Driessen, Francis Kmiecik and Surachai
Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter posed this short demo of a black Gristleism.
The Gristleism is described as a “Throbbing Gristle palm-sized loop playback machine.”